Violations

A new report that slams the natural gas industry and state regulators for “widespread violations of Arkansas clean water standards” in the Fayetteville Shale is based on old data and overlooks the fact that some of the report’s recommendations already have been implemented, state regulators told NGI.

A new report that slams the natural gas industry and state regulators for “widespread violations of Arkansas clean water standards” in the Fayetteville Shale is based on old data and overlooks the fact that some of the report’s recommendations already have been implemented, state regulators told NGI’s Shale Daily.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) on Tuesday fined Chesapeake Energy Corp. nearly $1.09 million for violations related to natural gas drilling operations in the Marcellus Shale.

Seminole Energy Services LLC and Natural Fuel Marketing Co. LLC (NFM) and their affiliates face fines of more than $861,000 for violations associated with the bidding for capacity on Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline during a March 2007 open season.

Seminole Energy Services LLC and Natural Fuel Marketing Co. LLC (NFM) and their affiliates face fines of more than $861,000 for violations associated with the bidding for capacity on Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline during a March 2007 open season.

The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) placed 208 trucks out of service in a three-day enforcement sweep that focused on commercial vehicles that haul wastewater from Marcellus Shale gas drilling sites, Police Commissioner Frank E. Pawlowski said Wednesday.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) last week levied a $2.3 million civil penalty on El Paso Corp. and its subsidiary Colorado Interstate Gas Co. (CIG) for violations of federal pipeline safety regulations that led to a fatal explosion on a CIG-operated pipeline in Wyoming in November 2006. The fine was the largest ever assessed against a pipeline company under the administrative authority of DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).

The Department of Transportation (DOT) Tuesday levied a $2.3 million civil penalty on El Paso Corp. and its subsidiary Colorado Interstate Gas Co. for violations of federal pipeline safety regulations that led to a fatal explosion on a CIG-operated pipeline in Wyoming in November 2006. The fine was the largest ever assessed against a pipeline company under the administrative authority of DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).

Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) and three affiliates have reached a proposed settlement with FERC enforcement litigation staff that resolves all claims that they manipulated physical natural gas prices at key Texas trading points from late 2003 to 2005.