Producers

Production from the eastern United States, including the powerhouse Marcellus Shale, will help make the country the world’s top producer of natural gas this year, ahead of Saudi Arabia, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Friday.

Will anyone be able to look back on this time in the United States and not consider it to be a golden age for natural gas? Will anyone doubt that the Marcellus Shale was the blazing star in that firmament?

Checking a map is the first step to knowing where one is going, but when it comes to forecasting shale gas supply and demand, the map can throw some international gas end-users off course.

Top industry executives from Colorado, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Texas on Wednesday told a crowd at the Shale Insight 2013 conference in Philadelphia that states and not the federal government should continue to be the primary oil and natural gas enforcers.

A lot of under-used natural gas pipeline capacity from supply sources on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border is a key competitive advantage for two proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects in Oregon, according to backers of the Jordan Cove and Oregon LNG projects.

EOG Resources Inc. CEO William Thomas said Wednesday the unconventional natural gas drilling pioneer plans to keep its onshore oil and liquids drilling strong but would “grow gas again” beginning in 2014. Plans to sell more of the company’s dry gas inventory also have been postponed.

U.S. policymakers should consider approving 1.5-2 Bcf/d of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity each year, which would avoid rocking the domestic gas market and be a pace that shale gas producers could keep in step with, analysts at Bernstein Research said in a note.

The Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD) wants to begin certifying producers in the Appalachian Basin that adhere to its standards by the end of the year.

Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to explain how the agency’s forays into three controversial sites will affect its comprehensive study of hydraulic fracturing (fracking).