Virginia

Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP (PVR) said late Monday it would be able to increase its natural gas processing capabilities in western Oklahoma after acquiring processing and residue pipeline facilities from Atlas Pipeline Partners LP (APL) for $22.6 million in cash.

Williams’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco) is holding a nonbinding open season through Aug. 4 for an expansion to provide up to 150,000 Dth/d of firm service to markets in Virginia, Washington, DC, and Maryland, the company said Tuesday.

Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia, one of the moderate Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee who had several concerns with the climate change bill, Thursday said he will vote for the legislation in mark-up next week after reaching an accord with Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) on key matters.

Indigo-Energy Inc., a junior explorer that focuses on prospects located in the Upper Devonian sand formations of Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, plans to spend $686.4 million to develop about 135,000 acres in the Illinois Basin, an emerging natural gas play that straddles portions of southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana and western Kentucky. The Illinois Basin covers about 60,000 square miles. Indigo, based in Henderson, NV, obtained the funds through a loan agreement with BJ Petro Inc., a Nevada corporation. Indigo also won mineral rights in Greene County, PA, and in Monongalia County, WV.

With natural gas production continuing to ramp up in the Appalachian supply basin of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, NiSource’s Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. (TCO) said last Tuesday that it has filed a $40 million infrastructure expansion plan with FERC that will increase its ability to deliver natural gas from the region.

With natural gas production continuing to ramp up in the Appalachian supply basin of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, NiSource’s Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. (TCO) said Tuesday that it has filed a $40 million infrastructure expansion plan with FERC that will increase its ability to deliver natural gas from the region.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has monetized a portion of its proved reserves and production from certain company-operated wells in Kentucky and West Virginia, the company said last Wednesday.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has monetized a portion of its proved reserves and production from certain company-operated wells in Kentucky and West Virginia, the company said Wednesday.

Dominion declared an operational flow order on its PL-1 system for deliveries to Virginia and Maryland.