Kentucky

A new draft management plan for the 1.1-million-acre George Washington National Forest (GWNF) in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky would allow gas leasing on one million acres but prohibit horizontal drilling on all federal leases.

EQT Corp. is selling its Big Sandy Pipeline in eastern Kentucky to Spectra Energy Partners LP for $390 million in cash. Most of the sale proceeds are targeted for Marcellus and Huron shale development.

MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources LLC has signed up units of Chesapeake Energy Corp. for additional midstream services in the Marcellus Shale in northern West Virginia, the partnership said Wednesday.

An upstate New York man accused of bilking investors out of $35 million in a Ponzi scheme involving oil and gas exploration in Kentucky and Tennessee is dead from an apparent suicide. Ashvin Zaveri, 71, late last year was charged with 16 counts of money laundering and mail and wire fraud dating back to 2003 (see NGI, Dec. 21, 2009). Zaveri shot himself on a park bench in the Rochester, NY, suburb of Mendon, the Associated Press reported. Zaveri had been expected to plead guilty to tax and fraud charges in September. He faced six to eight years in prison.

An upstate New York man accused of bilking investors out of $35 million in a Ponzi scheme involving oil and natural gas exploration in Kentucky and Tennessee is dead from an apparent suicide.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky Tuesday pledged to help President Obama achieve the job-creation goal that he laid out in his State of the Union address with respect to energy and international trade.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky Tuesday pledged to help President Obama achieve the job-creation goal that he laid out in his State of the Union address with respect to energy and international trade.

With natural gas production continuing to ramp up in the Appalachian supply basin of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, NiSource’s Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. (TCO) said last Tuesday that it has filed a $40 million infrastructure expansion plan with FERC that will increase its ability to deliver natural gas from the region.

With natural gas production continuing to ramp up in the Appalachian supply basin of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, NiSource’s Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. (TCO) said Tuesday that it has filed a $40 million infrastructure expansion plan with FERC that will increase its ability to deliver natural gas from the region.