Waters

The fate of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s bill that proposes drilling reforms in federal waters was unknown Thursday after a group of senators walked out of a mark-up session following a flare-up over the hot button issue of increasing the coastal states’ share of revenues from energy production.

American Petroleum Institute (API) CEO Jack Gerard said regulation of the nation’s shale gas plays would best be handled by state government and cautioned against involvement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

House Republicans Tuesday once again introduced legislation that would open the federal waters offshore Virginia to natural gas and crude oil exploration. The bill calls for the Interior Department to proceed with a Virginia offshore lease sale — the first lease sale conducted off the East Coast in 30 years — no later than one year after the passage of the bill.

The U.S. Coast Guard responded Wednesday to a rig fire in Bayou Perot, about 20 miles south of New Orleans in inland waters. Three people were reported injured on the rig, which was working on an inactive natural gas well.

Continued growth in production of shale gas and recent discoveries in deep waters offshore is expected to increase domestic natural gas production through 2035 and will be reflected in the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) next Annual Energy Outlook, which is due out in December, according to EIA Administrator Richard Newell.

Continued growth in production of shale gas and recent discoveries in deep waters offshore is expected to increased domestic natural gas production through 2035 and will be reflected in the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) next Annual Energy Outlook, which is due out in December, according to EIA Administrator Richard Newell.

Continued growth in production of shale gas and recent discoveries in deep waters offshore is expected to increased domestic natural gas production through 2035 and will be reflected in the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) next Annual Energy Outlook, which is due out in December, according to EIA Administrator Richard Newell.

Two years ago most New Jersey residents supported oil and gas drilling in the state’s coastal waters, but the three-month-old BP plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have changed their minds, according to poll results released last Wednesday.

Two years ago most New Jersey residents supported oil and gas drilling in the state’s coastal waters, but the three-month-old BP plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have changed their minds, according to poll results released Wednesday.