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Appalachian pure-play Eclipse Resources Corp. said this week that it is exploring a “full range” of strategic, operational and financial alternatives to maximize shareholder value.

Production wasn’t the only thing that increased in Ohio’s oil and natural gas fields last year, as permitting bounced back from the lows of the commodities downturn and shale drillers that increasingly control more land continued extending their laterals, according to the Ohio Oil and Gas Association’s (OOGA) annual Debrosse Memorial Report.

Utica Shale natural gas production increased again last year to 1.7 Tcf, up about 25% from 2016, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).

Eclipse Resources Corp. is monitoring results from two Marcellus Shale condensate wells in southeastern Ohio, where few others like them have been drilled, which could de-risk the company’s other locations.

An XTO Energy Inc. Utica Shale well in Belmont County, OH, is still leaking natural gas and brine water two weeks after it blew out when contractors were finishing completion operations.

FERC on Wednesday authorized Rover Pipeline LLC to bring its Mainline Compressor Station 2 in Ohio into service, raising total project capacity to just over 2 Bcf/d as the designed 3.25 Bcf/d interstate pipeline readies for full service later this year.

FERC on Wednesday authorized Rover Pipeline LLC to bring its Mainline Compressor Station 2 in Ohio into service, raising total project capacity to just over 2 Bcf/d as the designed 3.25 Bcf/d interstate pipeline readies for full service later this year.

Rover Pipeline LLC is looking to place its Burgettstown Lateral into service by Feb. 26, the operator told FERC Tuesday.

City councilors in a northeastern Ohio community have voted narrowly to approve a settlement with Nexus Gas Transmission LLC, clearing yet another roadblock for the 1.5 Bcf/d pipeline project that was announced more than five years ago.