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Wellsburg, WV Repeals Ban on Shale Gas Drilling

Almost three months to the day after first enacting a ban on natural gas drilling, the City of Wellsburg, WV, voted 5-3 on Tuesday night to repeal the measure.

August 11, 2011

Chesapeake CFO to Head Fracking Company

Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s original chief financial officer is resigning to run a hydraulic fracturing services company in which the producer holds a 26% stake.

October 14, 2010

Transportation Notes

Pacific Gas and Electric did not extend a systemwide low-inventory OFO beyond Thursday.

September 11, 2009

Talisman: Unconventional Strategy Pays 30 Tcf Dividend

Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. has identified more than 132 Tcf of original gas in place (OGIP) on its North American unconventional land holdings, more than 30 Tcf of it recoverable, company officials said at an investor conference in New York last week. Those figures exclude 770,000 acres that Talisman holds in Quebec, which are still early in the evaluation phase.

May 25, 2009

Talisman: Unconventional Strategy Pays 30 Tcf Dividend

Calgary-based Talisman Energy Inc. has identified more than 132 Tcf of original gas in place (OGIP) on its North American unconventional land holdings, more than 30 Tcf of it recoverable, company officials said at an investor conference in New York Wednesday. Those figures exclude 770,000 acres that Talisman holds in Quebec, which are still early in the evaluation phase.

May 21, 2009

BLM Cuts Size of Upcoming Utah Sale by Half

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has dropped more than half of the original acres that were to be offered Friday for oil and natural gas development in Utah, due mostly to the land’s proximity to national parks and monuments.

December 16, 2008

Penn State Prof Says Marcellus Bigger Than Originally Believed

A geosciences professor at Pennsylvania State University, who is a recognized expert on the Marcellus Shale, has increased his original estimate of the technically recoverable natural gas resources in the Marcellus Shale by nearly eight-fold.

November 10, 2008

Penn State Prof Says Marcellus Bigger Than Originally Believed

A geosciences professor at Pennsylvania State University, who is a recognized expert on the Marcellus Shale, has increased his original estimate of the technically recoverable natural gas resources in the Marcellus Shale by nearly eight-fold.

November 4, 2008

Third Oregon LNG Project Makes FERC Filing

A third proposal for a liquefied natural (LNG) receiving terminal in Oregon was made to FERC Friday with a proposal by Oregon LNG, successor to the original Calpine Corp. project near the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria, OR. The Vancouver, WA-based firm received approval last year to go through extensive federal pre-filing for its project, which is also backing a connecting 36-inch-diameter, 120-mile pipeline into the Portland, OR, metropolitan area.

October 13, 2008

Third Oregon LNG Project Makes FERC Filing

A third proposal for a liquefied natural (LNG) receiving terminal in Oregon was made to FERC Friday with a proposal by Oregon LNG, successor to the original Calpine Corp. project near the mouth of the Columbia River near Astoria, OR. The Vancouver, WA-based firm received approval last year to go through extensive federal pre-filing for its project, which is also backing a connecting 36-inch-diameter, 120-mile pipeline into the Portland, OR, metropolitan area.

October 13, 2008