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Anadarko Petroleum Corp. keeps drilling faster all the time, particularly in the Rocky Mountains, the southern and Appalachia regions, according to the company’s latest operations update. Second quarter earnings got a lift from record sales volumes of liquids production.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. keeps drilling faster all the time, particularly in the Rocky Mountains, the southern and Appalachia regions, according to the company’s latest operations update. Second quarter earnings got a lift from record sales volumes of liquids production.

Representatives of the natural gas industry, environmental organizations and state government are among those that Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley on Tuesday named to the state’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission.

Extensive rain and flooding have hampered MDU Resources Group Inc.’s operations and delayed growth activity in key producing states in the Rocky Mountain region, including the Bakken Shale, to such an extent that the company is lowering its 2011 natural gas and oil production forecasts.

Resources exploration and production unit QEP Energy continues to turn away from its traditional area of activity in the Rocky Mountain region and focus more on the Midcontinent and a handful of shale plays.

QEP Resources exploration and production unit QEP Energy continues to turn away from its traditional area of activity in the Rocky Mountain region and focus more on the Midcontinent and a handful of shale plays.

With 85% now “welded up,” El Paso Corp. can see the finish line for its anticipated Ruby Pipeline, which will carry natural gas from the Rocky Mountains to West Coast markets, but winter weather, permit delays and sage grouse habitat concerns have forced the completion schedule to slip to July, the pipeline chief told investors on Thursday.

With 85% now “welded up,” El Paso Corp. can see the finish line for its anticipated Ruby Pipeline, which will carry natural gas from the Rocky Mountains to West Coast markets, but winter weather, permit delays and sage grouse habitat concerns have forced the completion schedule to slip to July, the company’s pipeline chief told investors on Thursday.

In the summer of 2011, expanding natural gas pipeline export capacity could collide with rising production from the Rocky Mountains, according to a study by Societe Generale energy analysts.