Preliminary

Houston-based Goodrich Petroleum Corp. said Monday its preliminary 2011 capital expenditure budget is $225 million, a $30 million reduction from 2010 spending; however, production is expected to grow.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued another preliminary report Tuesday on the deadly San Bruno, CA, natural gas transmission pipeline rupture last September, eliminating external corrosion, excavation damage or a pre-existing leak as possible causes.

Quebec will allow producers to work on preliminary natural gas shale development while regulatory issues are reviewed, Natural Resources Minister Nathalie Normandeau said last week.

Quebec will allow producers to work on preliminary natural gas shale development while regulatory issues are reviewed, Natural Resources Minister Nathalie Normandeau said Tuesday.

A C$5 billion integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, petrochemical complex and gas-fired cogeneration power plant in Goldboro, NS, received a favorable preliminary environmental review with a number of conditions last week. The Maple LNG project, formerly named Keltic LNG, which is sponsored by Netherlands-based Petroplus International and Russia’s Suntera Canada Ltd., would provide 1 Bcf/d of gas to the power plant and petrochemical complex being built by Keltic Petrochemicals.

The judge in New Orleans who granted a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the federal government’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico owned shares of Transocean Ltd. and other offshore companies.

A kissing cousin of the Haynesville Shale may prove to be its equal or better, according to preliminary findings by two of the largest natural gas producers in the country.

A kissing cousin of the Haynesville Shale may prove to be its equal or better, according to preliminary findings by two of the largest natural gas producers in the country.

A kissing cousin of the Haynesville Shale may prove to be its equal or better, according to preliminary findings by two of the largest natural gas producers in the country.