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The Atlantic hurricane season, which officially began Sunday, is still predicted to be a relatively mild one, despite a slower-than-expected transition to an El Nino event in the Pacific Ocean, according to forecasters at Colorado State University (CSU).

Total domestic energy production reached about 81.7 quadrillion Btu (quads) in 2013 — enough to meet 84% of the nation’s energy demand — while natural gas, for the third consecutive year, was the largest domestically produced energy resource, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

As its operational footprint in Ohio has continued to shift toward the southeast, following an intensifying pattern of other operators moving toward the Utica Shale’s core, Consol Energy Inc. last month closed its northeast Ohio field office in Columbiana County.

North America’s oil and natural gas output could begin to plateau in the early 2020s without adequate investments, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted on Tuesday.

Geologists in North Carolina plan to collect rock samples from seven counties in the western part of the state this summer to test for oil and natural gas. Meanwhile, a bill that would open the Tar Heel State to shale development is headed to Gov. Pat McCrory’s desk for his signature.

Dominion has asked FERC to approve a pipeline expansion to Upstate New York and another to West Virginia that would rely on locally sourced natural gas for growing demand.

American Energy Partners LP (AELP), the private producer founded last year by Aubrey McClendon, has hired a former financial chief of Devon Energy Corp. and hired the one-time head of Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s investor relations.

As part of a joint industry-state government effort to curb flaring of associated gas at the wellhead, Monday marked the start of new requirements in North Dakota calling for a gas capture plan for each new drilling permit submitted to the Department of Mineral Resource (DMR) oil/gas division.

MarkWest Energy Partners LP said Monday that most of its Houston Processing and Fractionation facility in southwest Pennsylvania is back online after a lightning strike late last Wednesday forced the company to shut down operations there so it could assess the damage (see Shale Daily, May 29).