Results

SM Energy Co. raised its guidance for 2011 and introduced plans for 2012 that surpass what analysts were expecting as company executives emphasized a sharpened focus on the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.

The results of a long-awaited, million-dollar study of air emissions in Fort Worth’s portion of the Barnett Shale in North Texas are in and rather anticlimactic. While a handful of sites were found to have emissions exceeding regulatory allowances, setback requirements for natural gas facilities were generally found to be adequate.

The results of a long-awaited, million-dollar study of air emissions in Fort Worth’s portion of the Barnett Shale in North Texas are in and rather anticlimactic. While a handful of sites were found to have emissions exceeding regulatory allowances, setback requirements for natural gas facilities were generally found to be adequate.

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) Wednesday issued the results of a nearly year-long investigation into the cause of a September 2010 fire aboard a Mariner Energy Inc. oil and natural gas platform that forced its crew to evacuate.

The results of FERC’s ongoing inquiry into the causes of energy disruptions that occurred across the Southwest two months ago are not yet known, but the incident has some at the Commission rethinking the relationship between the gas and electric industries.

The results of FERC’s ongoing inquiry into the causes of energy disruptions that occurred across the Southwest two months ago are not yet known, but the incident has some at the Commission rethinking the relationship between the gas and electric industries.

A congressional push to increase regulations on hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) would have little impact on Pennsylvania, according to a regional director of the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

With the first meeting of his recently formed Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission set for Friday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett remains firmly opposed to a state-imposed severance tax on the natural gas industry, but is open to the idea of local impact fees. And those fees can’t be considered until the local impact of drilling is quantified, a Corbett spokesman told NGI’s Shale Daily Thursday.

Mainland Resources Inc. reported positive results from its Burkley Phillips No. 1 Well in Jefferson County, MS, in the Buena Vista Haynesville Shale that suggest there is more adsorbed and free gas in place in the reservoir than previously thought.