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Nova Scotia said it will extend its review of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) until mid-2014, enacting a moratorium on the practice for at least another two years.

Oneok Partners LP said it will invest $340-360 million by the first quarter of 2014 to construct a gas gathering and processing plant and related infrastructure in the Cana-Woodford Shale in Oklahoma.

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA) has subpoenaed the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) to turn over 13 documents related to the imposition of the May 2010 moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). He contends Interior has blocked the acting OIG from releasing documents to the committee.

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA) wants the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) to turn over 13 documents related to the imposition of the May 2010 moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), contending that Interior has blocked the acting OIG from releasing documents to the committee.

Oneok Partners LP said Wednesday it plans to invest $140-160 million to build a 270-mile natural gas gathering system and related infrastructure in Divide County, ND, in the heart of the Bakken Shale.

The House Natural Resources Committee plans to subpoena the Interior Department to obtain documents related to a report that allegedly had been altered to suggest that the National Academy of Engineering had endorsed a decision to impose a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in 2010.

The House Natural Resources Committee has subpoenaed the Interior Department to obtain documents related to a report that, after it had allegedly been altered, suggested that the National Academy of Engineering had endorsed a decision to impose a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in 2010.

PDC Mountaineer (PDCM), a joint venture (JV) of Petroleum Development Corp. (PDC) and Lime Rock Partners V LP, will temporarily suspend drilling in the Marcellus Shale “due to the current depressed natural gas price environment,” according to Denver-based PDC.

After three years of exponential growth, the Marcellus Shale is showing signs of plateauing this year.