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While the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) doesn’t know if any companies are still delivering Marcellus Shale wastewater to treatment facilities in the state, it won’t tolerate any “slackers,” Secretary Michael Krancer told an audience in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.

Shale patch heavyweight Chesapeake Energy Corp. has reached its debt reduction goal, built an internal oilfield services unit to counter cost inflation and grew first quarter production 20% as it increasingly emphasized higher-value oil and natural gas liquids (NGL), CEO Aubrey McClendon enthused during an earnings conference call Tuesday. But Wall Street was not impressed.

Legislation being drafted by West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s administration includes a statutory pooling provision for shallow horizontal wells, which would include Marcellus Shale drilling in the state, according to Nick Casey, a member of the Lewis Glasser Casey & Rollins law firm in Charleston, WV.

A modest “re-acceleration” in sequential natural gas supply growth in 3Q2010 doesn’t appear to be slowing down, and in fact implies that gas supplies could jump again in the final three months of the year by as much as 1.5 Bcf/d, analysts with Raymond James & Associates Inc. said last week.

A modest “re-acceleration” in sequential natural gas supply growth in 3Q2010 doesn’t appear to be slowing down, and in fact implies that gas supplies could jump again in the final three months of the year by as much as 1.5 Bcf/d, analysts with Raymond James & Associates Inc. said Monday.

As development of the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania ramps up, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation continues work on a final supplemental generic environmental impact statement (SGEIS), which is not expected to be completed until next year.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski has signaled that she doesn’t plan to give up even after losing Alaska’s Republican primary last month. The incumbent senator’s two options for reelection are running on the Libertarian Party ticket, which “is looking less likely,” or launching a write-in candidacy, a spokeswoman for Murkowski said in Alaska Wednesday.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski has signaled that she doesn’t plan to give up even after losing Alaska’s Republican primary last month. The incumbent senator’s two options for reelection are running on the Libertarian Party ticket, which “is looking less likely,” or launching a write-in candidacy, a spokeswoman for Murkowski said in Alaska Wednesday.

A high-ranking Halliburton executive Tuesday said he doesn’t believe drilling in the offshore — both in shallow water and deepwater — can remain at a standstill for long as a result of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).