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Midland, Delaware Basin Wolfcamp Outlook Seen ‘Greatly Improved’

Permian Basin-focused Energen Resources Corp., said Wednesday its first well to test the upper Wolfcamp Shale in the Midland Basin and three upper Wolfcamp wells in the Delaware Basin have shown “excellent results.”

August 1, 2013

Train Loaded with Crude Oil Explodes in Quebec

A 73-car train crashed and exploded Saturday in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, igniting its cargo of crude oil — possibly from North Dakota — killing as many as 40 people and forcing the evacuation of nearly 2,000 others.

July 9, 2013

Pittsburgh Drilling Proposals Advance to Planning Commission

The Pittsburgh City Council has referred a series of proposed amendments, which would create “mineral extraction districts” and possibly open the city to at least limited Marcellus Shale drilling, to the city’s planning commission.

October 8, 2012

Shell Offers Localities Millions for Lost Tax Revenue at Cracker Site

A subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc has offered to pay localities millions for lost tax revenue affected by its proposed “world-scale” ethane cracker.

October 3, 2012

North Carolina Frack Debate Heating Up

Two weeks after a newly formed state oil and gas board met to begin deliberating North Carolina’s regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), an environmental group has released a report of what it says are wide-ranging negative ramifications of the practice.

September 24, 2012

Chevron Works to Minimize Dry Gas Production

Chevron Corp. has not shut in any natural gas wells within its U.S. onshore portfolio, but it is “working to minimize dry gas as much as we possibly can,” CFO Pat Yarrington said Friday.

April 30, 2012

Chevron Working to Minimize Dry Gas Production

Chevron Corp. has not shut in any natural gas wells within its U.S. onshore portfolio, but it is “working to minimize dry gas as much as we possibly can,” CFO Pat Yarrington said Friday.

April 30, 2012

Ohio Injection Well Permits Still in Demand Despite Tougher Regs

Despite strict rules governing wastewater disposal wells, enacted after a dozen small earthquakes were possibly caused by the injections, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) is on pace to receive a record number of permit applications this year for new injection wells.

April 26, 2012

North Carolina Environmental Agency: Fracking ‘Can be Done Safely’

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) can be done safely “as long as the right protections are in place prior to issuance of any permits for the practice,” according to a draft report from North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

March 26, 2012

House Panel Questions EPA’s Objectivity on Fracking

Officials with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday fired off a letter to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) about its intention to regulate hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

January 24, 2012
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