Confidence

A Harris Interactive poll found that most registered voters in Ohio are opposed to higher severance taxes on oil and natural gas, believing such increases would destroy job creation and harm the economy.

A Harris Interactive poll found that 60% of North Carolina voters support the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in their state, and 74% support the Tar Heel State moving forward with offshore oil and natural gas exploration and production.

Gulfport Energy Corp. officials have reaffirmed the company’s commitment to the Utica Shale, unveiling details of an accelerated, but cheaper, drilling plan coordinated with the construction of much-needed infrastructure in the play.

Moving right along on the energy regulatory front, Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on Wednesday launched a study of air emissions tied to oil and gas development.

While TransCanada Corp. awaits word from Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) on its Mainline toll restructuring, executives are gaining confidence that a portion of the pipeline has a future moving western Canadian and Bakken Shale crude eastward.

While TransCanada Corp. awaits word from Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) on its Mainline toll restructuring, executives are gaining confidence that a portion of the pipeline has a future moving western Canadian and Bakken Shale crude eastward.

The Utica Shale may be “the best treasure of American energy,” Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon said Thursday.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Tuesday stripped co-founder and CEO Aubrey K. McClendon of his title as chairman of the board and said it would name an “independent, nonexecutive chairman in the near future.”

A combination of fit-for-purpose technology with solid execution in drilling horizontal wells using hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is giving Halliburton Co. confidence that it can deliver on its “frack-of-the-future” strategic initiatives, a company executive said Monday.