After weathering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s draft report late last week, which claimed that the groundwater in Pavillion, WY, contains chemicals that are normally used in natural gas production practices, such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., a subsidiary of Encana Corp., went on offense Monday, noting that many of the EPA’s findings from its recent deep monitoring wells, including those related to any potential connection between fracking and Pavillion groundwater quality, “are conjecture, not factual, and only serve to trigger undue alarm.”
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Panel: Expect Utica Development in 2013
“This is a 2013 development. It’s not a 2012 development. The next year is about evaluation. It’s about getting your head around the rock,” said Michael Bodino with Global Hunter Securities LLC.
November 18, 2011
PDC Mountaineer Pays $152M for Ohio Marcellus Acreage
PDC Mountaineer (PDCM), a joint venture of Petroleum Development Corp. and Lime Rock Partners V LP, will pay $152.5 million to National Grid plc for Seneca-Upshur LLC, including the rights to an estimated 90,000 net acres in the Marcellus Shale in north central West Virginia, the company said Monday. Closing is scheduled for Monday (Oct. 3), with an effective date of July 1, 2011.
September 29, 2011
Unconventional Research Focus of New Shell Collaboration
The Houston arm of Royal Dutch Shell plc and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) are teaming up to work on new and better ways to extract natural gas and oil from unconventional rock formations.
September 14, 2011
Prices Barely Firmer for Second Day in a Row
With such locations as Little Rock, AR, and Shreveport, LA, destined to reach the low to mid 100s during the weekend and most other portions of the South hitting the mid 90s or so, cash prices managed to eke out small increases again Friday. That broke a down-up-down-up pattern established in the cash market earlier in the week.
August 22, 2011
Report: Europe, U.S. Must Share on Shale
Much like rock ‘n’ roll, kick starting successful unconventional gas development in Europe will depend on the United States sending best practices and technical know-how across the Atlantic, according to a new report.
July 18, 2011
Report: Europe and U.S. Must Share on Shale
Much like rock ‘n’ roll, kick starting successful unconventional gas development in Europe will depend on the United States sending best practices and technical know-how across the Atlantic, according to a new report.
July 15, 2011
Lawsuit Filed Over Fayetteville Shale Quakes
A lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in Arkansas against a trio of energy companies alleging that their activities have caused “thousands of earthquakes in central Arkansas.”
May 25, 2011
Niobrara Gas in Piceance Getting Second Look
The Piceance Basin of Colorado has long been a natural gas producer, but recent results in the Niobrara Shale indicate that the best days may be ahead, Bentek Energy LLC said in a new report.
May 6, 2011
Quake Fears Halt Some Fayetteville Waste Injections
Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Operating Inc. and Little Rock, AR-based Clarita Operating LLC agreed Friday to halt drilling waste injection activities at two disposal wells while a potential link between injection activities and earthquakes in the Fayetteville Shale region is examined.
March 8, 2011
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