The monthly check from Chesapeake Exploration LLC will still be in the mail to Barnett Shale royalty owners, but some of them will find it to be a little lighter than in the past.
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Feds Seek Dismissal of NY Marcellus Shale Lawsuit
The federal government will ask a judge to dismiss a lawsuit from New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which he filed to compel a full environmental review of proposed regulations for Marcellus Shale development in the Delaware River Basin.
Shippers Blame Columbia for System’s Congestion
It wasn’t the overload of Marcellus Shale supplies, but poor planning by Columbia Gas Transmission LLC that “may have created or contributed” to the storage constraints on its system in northern Ohio, Indicated Shippers said in a protest to the pipeline request for a tariff increase.
Heat Levels Revive, And So Do Prices
Some easing of hot weather going into the weekend had been reversed as the new trading week began, and prices were up strongly across the board Monday — even featuring a couple of dollar-plus jumps in New England as peak temperatures neared 90 in the Boston area.
Ethics Group Seeks Probe of Times Shale Coverage
According to Boehm, the sources are Arthur Berman of Labyrinth Consulting Services in Sugar Land, TX, and Deborah Rodgers, a full-time goat farmer and owner of Deborah’s Fort Worth Farmstead Goat Cheese.
New Brunswick Group Ends Call for Moratorium
A citizens group has reversed its call for a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in New Brunswick after the provincial government unveiled tougher regulations for the emerging Frederick Brook Shale.
Power Plant Capital Costs Rise, IHS CERA Index Shows
The capital costs for building a typical natural gas-fired electric generation plant are going up, and it appears to be a trend in that upward direction for the first time in nearly a decade, according to the IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) capital cost index for North America released on Wednesday.
Energy Transfer, Regency Targeting Permian with $700M NGL Line
Lone Star NGL LLC — a venture of Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) and Regency Energy Partners LP — plans to construct a 530-mile natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline from Winkler County in West Texas to the Jackson County processing plant in Jackson County, TX.
FERC’s Norris: Take Fracking Concerns Seriously
Shale producers should take seriously the questions and issues being raised by environmentalists and others with concerns about hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and be “open and transparent” about the composition of their fracking fluids, FERC Commissioner John Norris said Tuesday.
Denali Won’t Be ‘The Alaska Gas Pipeline’
Denali will still be a national park in Alaska, but it’s not going to be “The Alaska Gas Pipeline.” BP plc and ConocoPhillips, partners in the project to pipe Alaska North Slope Gas to Canada and Lower 48 markets, threw in the towel last week after producers refused to commit to shipping gas on the pipeline.