Flowing

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) said it has issued 431 permits for drilling horizontal wells into the Utica Shale.

Santos turned on Australia’s first commercial shale gas production last Friday at the company’s Moomba-191 well in the Cooper Basin.

CONSOL Energy Inc.’s natural gas division said Thursday it produced a record 40.4 Bcf in 3Q2011, or nearly 13% more than the 35.8 Bcf produced in the year-ago period. Separately, Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. also reported strong results in Appalachia, but it said gas sales have been constrained because of “volume limitations” in some midstream infrastructure.

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) has suspended 41 water withdrawals in Pennsylvania as of Monday afternoon because of low-flowing streams in the central part of the state, forcing many natural gas driller to stop taking water from certain local waterways.

Natural gas has begun flowing through a subsea pipeline offshore Qatar into Pearl GTL, the largest gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant ever built, Royal Dutch Shell plc said last week.

Natural gas has begun flowing through a subsea pipeline offshore Qatar into Pearl GTL, the largest gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant ever built, Royal Dutch Shell plc said Wednesday.

Federal regulators said over the weekend that natural gas flowing from a Gulf of Mexico platform jointly owned 50/50 by Apache Corp. and Stone Energy has stopped (see Daily GPI, Jan. 20).

Meritage Midstream Services has completed and begun flowing gas on the Fasken Ranch lateral pipeline, which is an extension of the company’s Eagle Ford Escondido Gathering System in Webb County, TX.

Even more natural gas will be flowing to the southeastern United States after Williams Partners LP picked up its second federal approval in a month to beef up infrastructure on its Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (Transco), a 10,500-mile system that delivers gas from the Gulf of Mexico to New York City, the Mid-Atlantic and the Atlanta area.