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Purestream Technology has contracted with Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. to deploy its Avara System, which can process up to 2,000 bbls of flowback water daily, for a water treatment project in Mountrail County, ND, to support Whiting’s operations in the Williston Basin. The clean finished water will be returned for continued use in hydraulic fracturing. The Avara system was developed in partnership with Utah State University’s Energy and Space Dynamics Labs.

After gains Monday were followed by losses Tuesday, the cash market got back to somewhat of an even keel Wednesday with price movements that were little changed either up or down in most cases but a little softer in a slight majority of cases. Lows in the 30s and 40s would continue to generate a fair amount of heating demand in the Midwest, Rockies, Western Canada and parts of the South, but the rest of the weather outlook called for moderate to merely chilly.

FERC has blocked Kern River Gas Transmission’s attempt to force shippers within the same class whose contracts are expiring to agree to renew for the same term or face higher rates.

After warning of the possibility Wednesday, Florida Gas Transmission followed up by issuing an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers Thursday with a 20% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

Shell Oil Co. last week launched a public relations campaign to showcase its onshore natural gas drilling efforts, followed a day later by ExxonMobil Corp., which on Thursday unveiled a website to “give context to the growth of natural gas resources in the United States.”

As Marcellus Shale development accelerates in Pennsylvania, it is also expanding.

Southcross Energy plans to construct a 200 MMcf/d gas processing plant in Refugio County, TX, to handle liquids-rich production from the Eagle Ford Shale, the Dallas-based company said Tuesday.

Forced pooling is critical to ensuring that the Marcellus Shale is developed to its fullest, but crafting those laws will be difficult because of the unique nature of shale and the slim legal history of pooling in Appalachia, a natural resources legal expert told a Pittsburgh audience Tuesday.

West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Randy Huffman told NGI’s Shale Daily it is unlikely that the DEP would honor a request by the City of Morgantown to issue a stop work order on two Marcellus Shale gas wells in the city’s industrial park.