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Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is slated to hire 68 additional personnel to ensure that drilling companies obey state laws and protect water supplies as they ply the the Keystone State’s portion of the prolific Marcellus Shale play. Gov. Edward Rendell directed the staff increase. DEP also is to strengthen oil and gas regulations to improve well construction standards, Rendell’s office said.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is slated to hire 68 additional personnel to ensure that drilling companies obey state laws and protect water supplies as they ply the the Keystone State’s portion of the prolific Marcellus Shale play. Gov. Edward Rendell directed the staff increase. DEP also is to strengthen oil and gas regulations to improve well construction standards, Rendell’s office said.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is slated to hire 68 additional personnel to ensure that drilling companies obey state laws and protect water supplies as they ply the the Keystone State’s portion of the prolific Marcellus Shale play. Gov. Edward Rendell directed the staff increase. DEP also is to strengthen oil and gas regulations to improve well construction standards, Rendell’s office said.

Midcontinent Express Pipeline LLC (MEP) Monday asked FERC for the go-ahead to begin service at compressor and booster stations on a 507-mile pipeline that is slated for operation by Aug. 1. The pipeline, when operational, will provide more market access to shale gas producers in the South.

Assuming environmental clearances and local land-use permits are obtained this summer, California’s latest natural gas storage project, slated for an industrial area in the southeast corner of Sacramento, can be developed in six to nine months and be operating as a 7.5 Bcf capacity facility by the summer of 2010, the head of the privately funded project told NGI Friday.

Assuming environmental clearances and local land-use permits are obtained this summer, California’s latest natural gas storage project, slated for an industrial area in the southeast corner of Sacramento, can be developed in six to nine months and be operating as a 7.5 Bcf capacity facility by the summer of 2010, the head of the privately funded project told NGI Friday.

The Black Warrior Storage Project in Mississippi has been slated for an environmental assessment, the FERC said Monday. The project, which would provide up to 24.7 Bcf of working gas capacity, is being developed by Southeast Gas Storage LLC (SGS), an affiliate of El Paso Corp.’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.

Utah is slated to be the first big state to go to a 10-hour, four-day work week beginning in August in an effort to save energy costs.

Utah is slated to be the first big state to go to a 10-hour, four-day work week beginning in August in an effort to save energy costs.