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The first day of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season started right on cue Wednesday with a small area of low pressure forming off the east coast of Florida, and forecasters at Colorado State University (CSU) said they expect that system signals the opening of six months of above-average tropical storm activity.

The Independent Oil & Gas Association of West Virginia (IOGAWV) said Wednesday it has launched a new alliance, Just Beneath the Surface (JBTS), to provide the public with information and debunk myths about the industry.

Thanks to recent upgrades to a compression station in northeastern Pennsylvania, Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. increased its Marcellus Shale production 35% in a single day, a sign of how infrastructure bottlenecks in Appalachia are crimping production rates.

Three of the biggest offshore producers in the United States last week reported that they have ramped up drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), and BP plc also expressed optimism that it would join its peers by the second half of this year.

A U.S. district judge on Tuesday granted Northern Natural Gas Co. the right to condemn more than 9,000 acres in south-central Kansas to contain natural gas migrating from an underground storage facility.

If Range Resources Corp. is reading it right, last Tuesday’s deposition by the company of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee in an ongoing Barnett Shale well water contamination case is proof that it’s good to talk things out.

If Range Resources Corp. is reading it right, Tuesday’s deposition by the company of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee in an ongoing Barnett Shale well water contamination case is proof that it’s good to talk things out.

In the second biggest natural gas market in the United States, California energy officials have kept a keen eye fixed on shale gas, and their revised energy plans and forecasts next year and beyond will reflect a greater impact from North America’s energy game-changer, the author of the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) latest report on shale gas told NGI during an interview this week.

Appalachian-based producer AB Resources on Tuesday withdrew an offer to pay the city of Moundsville, WV, at least $206,500 for the right to drill for natural gas on city property.