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Officials in Robinson Township, PA, told leaseholders that they were welcome to contact Range Resources Corp. and try to convince the company to reapply for two Marcellus Shale drilling permits the township denied in February. But the company said it will not reapply, and was confident it would win a lawsuit against the township over the denied permits.

Officials in Robinson Township, PA, told leaseholders that they were welcome to contact Range Resources Corp. and try to convince the company to reapply for two Marcellus Shale drilling permits the township denied in February.

Natural gas marketers experienced a welcome jump in sales during the second quarter of 2012, according to NGI’s 2Q2012 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking, with 16 companies overall and eight of the top 10 — including all of the top six — reporting sales increases compared with 2Q2011.

Natural gas marketers experienced a welcome jump in sales during the second quarter of 2012, according to NGI’s 2Q2012 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking, with 16 companies overall and eight of the top 10 — including all of the top six — reporting sales increases compared with 2Q2011.

When it takes 75,000-100,000 bbl of water to hydraulically fracture (frack) a shale well, “the oil and gas industry is effectively a water industry and delivers oil and gas as a byproduct…so welcome to the water industry,” an environmental services executive told a Houston energy audience Wednesday.

A Pennsylvania think tank believes a recent study inflates the economic importance of the Marcellus Shale.

The smell of natural gas wafted across a portion of California’s Silicon Valley Tuesday, and it was a welcome presence for a change for the utility and local officials, signifying that Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) was moving forward to pressure test more of its gas transmission pipeline system that has been placed under close scrutiny since the pipeline rupture in San Bruno that killed eight people Sept. 9.

Subfreezing lows will be left in the wake of an icy coastal storm moving out to sea, but Northeast residents will no doubt welcome the chance to finish cleaning up in relatively dry conditions after the devastating blizzards in the middle of last week. Thus Northeast citygates took nearly all of Tuesday’s price hits ranging from about 40 cents to the $1.50 area (the Florida citygate chipped in with a loss of about a nickel).

Energy companies’ share prices were on the rebound Monday, a welcome turn for the sector, after ending last week drastically down and on reports that the CEOs of Chesapeake Energy Corp. and XTO Energy Inc. had been forced to sell millions of shares of their companies’ stock.