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Williams Partners LP is holding an open season through April 2 for the remaining capacity on its 260-mile Atlantic Access Project, a pipeline that would carry more than 1 Bcf/d of Appalachian gas supply to eastern markets along the Atlantic Seaboard by late 2014.

Research projects to study ways for improving the environmental performance of unconventional natural gas development are being sought by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), a facility of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy.

Crosstex NGL Pipeline LP is holding a binding open season through Oct. 14 for capacity on a new natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline system (the Crosstex NGL Pipeline) to transport unfractionated NGLs produced in the Permian Basin, Midcontinent, Barnett Shale, Eagle Ford Shale and Rocky Mountain areas from the Mont Belvieu, TX, area to NGL fractionation facilities in Eunice and Riverside, LA. Crosstex Energy LP and Crosstex Energy Inc. plan to construct the common carrier pipeline with a preliminary design capacity of at least 70,000 b/d to Eunice, with a lesser amount of capacity available to Riverside (see Shale Daily, July 27). Crosstex NGL Pipeline is scheduled to be operational in the first quarter of 2013. For more information, contact Brad Iles at (214) 721-9363, or brad.iles@crosstexenergy.com.

The preliminary draft permit rules for hydraulic fracturing operations, which would impose additional regulations on natural gas drillers operating in New York’s Marcellus Shale, were published Friday in their entirety by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

The Energy Information Administration (EIA), academia, industry and analysts on Tuesday continued to question why the New York Times (NYT) relied on misleading, outdated information — and failed to contact key resources — before publishing damning articles about the U.S. shale gas industry.

Long-term natural gas gathering agreements to anchor the Appalachian Gathering System (AGS), which is to traverse the Marcellus Shale, have been signed with subsidiaries of Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Statoil ASA, M3 Midstream LLC (Momentum) said Thursday.

DCP Midstream LLC s holding a nonbinding open season through Dec. 9 for the proposed DCP Sandhills Pipeline. The natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline would run more than 700 miles from West Texas to fractionation and storage facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast including those at Mont Belvieu, TX.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. is seeking a joint venture (JV) partner to develop its Haynesville and Mid-Bossier Shale leasehold in San Augustine, Nacogdoches and Sabine counties in East Texas. And East Texas Oil & Gas LLC (ETOG) is offering an East Texas JV opportunity in Leon, Madison, Brazos and Robertson counties.

FERC has asked two Houston-based companies whether the men identified in their applications for market-based rate authority are the same traders who pleaded guilty in 2006 to conspiracy to manipulate the price of natural gas.