Earliest

Officials in Robinson Township, PA, told leaseholders that they were welcome to contact Range Resources Corp. and try to convince the company to reapply for two Marcellus Shale drilling permits the township denied in February.

Exploration in North America’s onshore remains in its earliest stages because producers are eyeing “tens of thousands” of locations for future drilling, Baker Hughes Inc. CEO Martin Craighead said Tuesday.

A new target of 2018 — four years later than the previous goal — has been set as the earliest possible date for gas to start flowing out of the Canadian Arctic via the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP).

A new target of 2018 — four years later than the previous goal — has been set as the earliest possible date for gas to start flowing out of the Canadian Arctic via the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP).

A new target of 2018 — four years later than the previous goal — has been set as the earliest possible date for gas to start flowing out of the Canadian Arctic via the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP).

The earliest-ever formation of a fifth named storm in an Atlantic hurricane season in more than a century of record keeping, abetted by gradual increases in heat levels in some areas, was responsible for large price gains at all points Tuesday.

Northwest said it lifted a Declared Entitlement Period forovertakes Friday “at the earliest date possible to minimize theimpacts to its customers.” The entitlement had been in effect sinceearly October (see Daily GPI, Oct. 9,2000) and was modified at times since then. The pipeline addedthat “while the operational threat is currently under control,Northwest will continue to monitor the system for unfavorableconditions and will immediately entitle the system, includingweekends, if necessary.” Realignment and must-flow OFOs were canceledby Northwest earlier last week (see Daily GPI, Jan. 4).

Prices continued to weaken at nearly all points Tuesday in boththe incremental and October bidweek markets. Offshore supplies wereslow in returning from hurricane-related outages, but tradersseemed to discount that factor and to depend on abundant gaselsewhere to take up the slack. They also observed that weather andstorage fundamentals remain weak.