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Continental Resources Inc. has successfully completed its second natural gas well in the Anadarko Woodford play, while the company’s production total continued to rise during 4Q2011.

In all the hoopla surrounding the Marcellus Shale’s natural gas resources and its access to East Coast markets, it may be easy to forget that the Haynesville Shale was once the toast of the gas world. To Encana Corp., it still is.

While the most vocal opposition to Laser Northeast Gathering Co. LLC’s bid to gain public utility status for a proposed gathering system in northeast Pennsylvania is coming from members of the public, there is opposition from within the industry as well.

Southwestern Energy Co. has proven itself in the Fayetteville Shale and is now successfully poking holes in the Marcellus. However, it hasn’t been as adept at getting utility gas buyers to put pen to long-term supply contracts.

Alaska Native and conservation groups have successfully challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) issuance of clean air permits to Shell Oil to drill and operate in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas. The Alaska EPA regional office erred when it relied solely on compliance with the national ambient air quality standard for nitrogen oxide “as sufficient to find that the Alaska Native population would not experience disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects from the permitted activity,” said the federal Environmental Appeals Board in its decision. The three groups that challenged the permits were the Center for Biological Diversity; Earthjustice, on behalf of several conservation groups; and the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope. The permits issued by the EPA authorize Shell Oil, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc, to construct and operate the 514-foot Frontier Discoverer drillship and its air emission units and to conduct other air pollutant emitting activities for the purpose of exploration in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas off the North Slope of Alaska. The producer is seeking to drill three exploratory wells in the Arctic seas.

Alaska Native and conservation groups have successfully challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA} issuance of clean air permits to Shell Oil to drill and operate in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

Learning how to tap successfully into the Marcellus Shale has come at a big cost and a lot of work, and the producer continues to find ways to become more cost efficient, Range Resources Corp. COO Jeff Ventura said Tuesday.

Learning how to tap successfully into the Marcellus Shale has come at a big cost and a lot of work, and the producer continues to find ways to become more cost efficient, Range Resources Corp. COO Jeff Ventura said Tuesday.

Learning how to tap successfully into the Marcellus Shale has come at a big cost and a lot of work, but producers now are producing more gas at a cheaper price, Range Resources Corp. COO Jeff Ventura said last week.