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The Permian Basin's Wolfcamp Delaware play is providing a handful of producers strong results and shows promise of being one of the most economic liquids-oriented unconventional plays around once it matures, according to an analysis by IHS.

The Permian Basin’s Wolfcamp Delaware play is providing a handful of producers strong results and shows promise of being one of the most economic liquids-oriented unconventional plays around once it matures, according to an analysis by IHS.

Three bills to tighten natural gas pipeline regulations — one already awaiting the governor’s signature and the other two awaiting floor votes — have emerged as the California state legislature heads into its final week and mandated adjournment by Aug. 31.

A top official from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Tuesday told hundreds of members from one of the state’s largest oil and gas trade associations that it could be two years before a comprehensive package of new environmental regulations is implemented. It was not what they wanted to hear.

The stubborn cold of last winter that buoyed natural gas prices and wells that keep flowing at surprising rates, combined with a slowly breaking bottleneck and a race to push the play’s boundaries beyond Ohio in search of more liquids once again has the spotlight growing brighter on the Utica Shale.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) has adopted new requirements aimed at reducing air pollution from the state's growing shale oil and gas development that will find operators targeting fugitive emission sources such as leaking valves and connectors.

Michigan's oil and natural gas operators may be reaping the benefits of tax breaks to expand energy infrastructure in the state under legislation now awaiting Gov. Rick Snyder's signature.

Super-frigid temperatures throughout the eastern half of the nation combined with President Obama’s boost for natural gas in his State of the Union speech shined an ever-brighter light on the use of natural gas vehicles (NGV). In both cases, alternative fuel transportation advocates got a chance to further state their case.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s energy executive said “it’s not surprising or alarming” that the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has never denied an operator’s request for a waiver to the stream and wetland setback requirements enshrined in Act 13, the state’s omnibus Marcellus Shale law.