Oversight

Range Resources Corp. is threatening to leave a western Pennsylvania township over a dispute with local officials.

Texas Senate lawmakers Monday overwhelmingly passed legislation that would abolish the three-member Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) and replace it with the one-member Texas Oil and Gas Commission. The bill is headed for the House Energy Resources Committee, where a three-member commission is favored by Chairman Jim Keffer (R-Eastland).

The provincial government of Quebec and the Canadian government reached an accord on offshore oil and gas resources on Thursday, creating a joint Quebec-Ottawa oversight board and granting the province all revenues from development in its territorial waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The provincial government of Quebec and the Canadian government reached an accord on offshore oil and gas resources Thursday, creating a joint Quebec-Ottawa oversight board and granting the province all revenues from development in its territorial waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

A bill moving through the Pennsylvania General Assembly would give state regulators more oversight over intrastate pipelines, but the sponsor of the legislation wants to expand it to include gathering lines in remote areas that aren’t currently regulated.

Following the deadly pipeline explosion in Allentown, PA, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) Friday called on the head of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to beef up the oversight of the interstate gas pipelines that feed into Pennsylvania’s intrastate distribution infrastructure.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has sent letters to more than 150 companies and trade associations asking them to identify the Obama administration regulations that his panel should investigate.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has sent letters to more than 150 companies and trade associations asking them to identify the Obama administration regulations that his panel should investigate.

While stakeholders were battling staff cuts in the New York state agency charged with permitting and oversight of oil and gas drilling, greater potential obstacles to development of the state’s Marcellus Shale fairway loomed with the installation Jan. 1 of the new Democratic state administration.