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Confidentiality agreements with service operators have prevented natural gas producers from disclosing data about chemicals contained in hydraulic fracturing (hydrofrac) fluids, but it’s “silly” and “this is not acceptable,” Range Resources Corp. CEO John Pinkerton said Wednesday.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Friday ordered Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. to stop using hydraulic fracturing (hydrofrac) on its natural gas shale wells in Susquehanna County.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued a notice of violation to Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. for two spills that occurred last week related to hydraulic fracturing (hydrofrac) fluids, but the investigation is far from over after the producer reported a third spill at the site Tuesday, the regulatory agency said.

A crowd of about 2,000, mostly landowners, gathered in Bainbridge, NY, recently to urge state and federal policymakers to allow the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracing) techniques to develop natural gas in the state’s Marcellus and Ithaca shale formations.

A crowd of about 2,000, mostly landowners, gathered in Bainbridge, NY, Sunday to urge state and federal policymakers to allow the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracing) techniques to develop natural gas in the state’s Marcellus and Ithaca shale formations.

Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are unlocking the continent’s bountiful gas shale plays one by one, leading to a seismic shift in production economics — and prices will never be the same, a Calgary-based energy economist told NGI.

Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are unlocking the continent’s bountiful gas shale plays one by one, leading to a seismic shift in production economics — and prices will never be the same, a Calgary-based energy economist told NGI.