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Regulators with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) are drafting rules governing centralized earthen impoundments that would temporarily hold wastewater from oil and gas drilling.

If a variety of industry experts are correct, the western United States is on the brink of an upsurge in natural gas demand outstripping supply and resulting in a need for a new wave of infrastructure being built from the Rockies westward.

Chevron Corp.’s U.S. upstream production is holding steady from a year ago, with natural gas output higher and liquids holding steady, the operator said late Wednesday in an interim 3Q2013 report.

With production, takeaway capacity and employment all on the rise in the Appalachian Basin, the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) on Wednesday issued a list of recommended practices for drilling and completing oil and natural gas wells in the play.

With the potential to help satisfy growing regulatory concerns about flowback and produced water used in hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Los Angeles-based OriginOil Inc. has signed a pay-per-barrel agreement with small Colorado-based water treatment company Industrial Systems Inc. (ISI).

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Information Administration (EIA), one of the few governmental agencies that was able to stay open during the beginning days of the shutdown because it had non-annual funds, said it would cease operations and furlough its staff at the end of the day Friday.

Investors poured into onshore operator Antero Resources Inc. in its debut Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange, gaining more than 18% to close at $52.01. “AR,” the most heavily traded stock of the day, saw more than 28.4 million shares trade hands.

Pennsylvania’s status as “a major energy producing state,” and the possible impacts the state may see from climate change have not changed significantly over the last four years, according to a report commissioned by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

A 20,600 bbl Bakken crude oil spill in North Dakota from a leak sprung in a Tesoro Logistics LP pipeline in a wheat field northeast of Tioga, ND, on Friday was fully contained, under control and in the process of being remediated, according to state and company officials. The leak had originally been detected Sept. 29 and was mistakenly thought to be much smaller.