Utica

Gulfport Energy Corp. has plans this year to get familiar with the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province (SCOOP), hoping to transfer what it’s learned during the last five years in Ohio’s Utica Shale to the Midcontinent’s stacked pay potential.

Ohio pure-play Eclipse Resources Corp. plans to significantly increase its capital spend this year, guiding for a $300 million budget that builds on the lessons it learned last year and includes 11 super laterals — wells with extensions of 15,000 feet or longer.

Questerre Energy Corp., which explores in Quebec’s Utica Shale within the St. Lawrence Lowlands, said independent engineers estimate that some of the company’s resources in the play are 30% larger than previously thought.

In a statement attached to Friday’s order approving one of a handful of large new pipeline projects, former FERC Commissioner Norman Bay offered some parting thoughts on the impact of the shale revolution and how the Commission can improve moving forward.

In a statement attached to Friday’s order approving one of a handful of large new pipeline projects, former FERC Commissioner Norman Bay offered some parting thoughts on the impact of the shale revolution and how the Commission can improve moving forward.

EQT Corp. continued to consolidate its acreage position this week, with management announcing Thursday that it’s purchased another 14,000 acres in Marion and Monongalia counties, WV, from an undisclosed buyer for $130 million.

Despite firming liquids prices, Consol Energy Inc. plans to focus on dry gas production this year and next as it looks to convert more noncore acreage to core through further delineation of the Utica Shale.

Gulfport Energy Corp. said Tuesday it turned in a solid fourth quarter, announcing that it exited the year at the high-end of its quarterly guidance to produce 787 MMcfe/d, 87% weighted to natural gas, which was 7% more than in 3Q2016 and 22% higher than in the year-ago period.

Rover Pipeline LLC is urging FERC to approve its certificate application by the end of this month, warning that if it can’t start tree clearing by mid-January the project “very likely will be delayed for up to a full year.”