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Devon Energy Corp.’s exit from the Gulf of Mexico last year and the recent sale of its Brazilian assets in order to focus on North American onshore drilling have begun to pay significant dividends for the Oklahoma City-based independent, including record high North American onshore production, CEO John Richels said Wednesday.

Arkansas regulators Wednesday afternoon established a permanent moratorium area for any new drilling wastewater injection wells in an area of the Fayetteville Shale where four such wells are thought to have contributed to earthquakes.

The battle for Southern Union Co. continued Thursday after Williams countered by 10% a $40/share offer made earlier this month by Energy Transfer Equity LP (ETE), putting a $44/share cash deal on the table, which is worth a total enterprise value of $9.4 billion (see Shale Daily, July 6).

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has agreed to spend millions for repairs to roads in four counties in the West Virginia Panhandle, in order to mitigate damage done to the roads by trucks hauling equipment and water to its wells sites in the region.

Even with the Department of Interior’s (DOI) recent decision not to implement a so-called “wild lands” order (see Daily GPI, June 2), wilderness characteristics will continue to be considered in assessing proposed energy infrastructure projects across Wyoming and other western states, an environmental panel concluded at a meeting of the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority (WIA) board Wednesday.

Water handling solutions provider Heckmann Corp. has bought pumping and delivery services company Consolidated Petroleum Inc. (CPI), which serves customers conducting hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Haynesville and Eagle Ford shales. Heckmann said the acquisition boosts its ability to provide fresh water for fracking.

DCP Midstream LLC is buying Seaway Products Pipeline Co. from ConocoPhillips in order to create natural gas liquids (NGL) transportation capacity from the Midcontinent to higher-value markets on the Texas Gulf Coast. In doing so it will be capitalizing on a durable spread in ethane prices between the two markets, analysts said last Thursday.

DCP Midstream LLC is buying Seaway Products Pipeline Co. from ConocoPhillips in order to create natural gas liquids (NGL) transportation capacity from the Midcontinent to higher-value markets on the Texas Gulf Coast. In doing so it will be capitalizing on a durable spread in ethane prices between the two markets, analysts said Thursday.

Regency Energy Partners LP said it will spend about $450 million to construct a wellhead gathering system and other infrastructure in order to serve an undisclosed producer in the Eagle Ford Shale with gas and condensate gathering.