Northeastern

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) on Thursday denied two requests to reconsider its decision to grant public utility status to a Marcellus Shale gathering project currently under construction.

Researchers from Duke University plan to return to Pennsylvania this week to conduct additional testing of residential water wells in the northeastern part of the state, including wells that are not currently near any Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling.

Inergy LP said Tuesday it plans to spin off a minority interest in a new master limited partnership (MLP) as Inergy Midstream LP, which initially would own and operate the northeastern midstream natural gas storage and transportation business.

Researchers from Duke University plan to return to Pennsylvania next week to conduct additional testing of residential water wells in the northeastern part of the state, including wells that are not currently near any Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling.

Three of Japan’s largest utilities have joined Mitsubishi Corp. to collaborate in Penn West Exploration’s shale gas project in northeastern British Columbia (BC) to gain knowledge about unconventional gas, as well as to secure an interest in future liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.

Three of Japan’s largest utilities have joined a Mitsubishi Corp.-led consortium to partner in Penn West Exploration’s shale gas project in northeastern British Columbia (BC).

Three of Japan’s largest utilities have joined Mitsubishi Corp. to collaborate in Penn West Exploration’s shale gas project in northeastern British Columbia (BC) to gain knowledge about unconventional gas, as well as to secure an interest in future liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.

A significant majority of Pennsylvania residents support the use of a severance tax on drilling operations to help close a projected $4 billion state budget gap, according to the results of a survey released Thursday by the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

California, its utilities and the rest of the West Coast, went on alert Friday in response to the 8.9 Richter Scale quake that occurred offshore northeastern Japan, and the only significant impact was the closure for 2-1/2 hours of a natural gas-fired electric generation plant in the northern end of the state. Otherwise, California’s two major coastal nuclear generating plants and a host of gas and power facilities were unaffected.