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Wyoming has set aside $750,000 to help fund cistern systems for Pavillion homeowners whose groundwater may have been contaminated by natural gas drilling, and affected residents will be able to take advantage of that offer, Gov. Matt Mead told reporters last Wednesday.

Wyoming has set aside $750,000 to help fund cistern systems for Pavillion homeowners whose groundwater may have been contaminated by natural gas drilling, and affected residents will be able to take advantage of that offer, Gov. Matt Mead told reporters last Wednesday.

Williams Partners LP, whose parent Williams has been laser focused on building a midstream stronghold in the Marcellus Shale, late Monday agreed to pay $2.5 billion to buy the midstream arm of privately held producer Caiman Energy.

ExxonMobil Corp., whose North American portfolio washes across eight million net acres, is scooping up more liquids-weighted land and has begun to shift some of its natural gas development to more oily plays, the company’s top guns told financial analysts on Thursday.

Beleaguered Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), whose natural gas pipeline system and management have gone through regulatory hell since the fatal San Bruno transmission pipeline rupture and explosion in 2010, is in the early stages of a “long journey” to become the nation’s premier gas operator, and has some technology changes in the offing that could accelerate its transformation, according to executive vice president Nick Stavropoulos.

The long and winding road to passing a drilling impact fee in Pennsylvania hit another pothole Wednesday when nine Republican state senators whose districts are outside the Marcellus shale signed a letter opposing restrictions on local zoning contained in the bill.

The long and winding road to passing a drilling impact fee in Pennsylvania hit another pothole Wednesday when nine Republican state senators whose districts are outside the Marcellus shale signed a letter opposing restrictions on local zoning contained in the bill.

El Paso Corp., whose exploration and production (E&P) arm is on the market, increased its proved natural gas and oil reserves by 18% in 2011 from a year ago to 4 Tcfe.

Nexen Inc., whose portfolio is spread across North America and overseas, on Tuesday laid out its 2012 strategy, which includes new drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and taking as a partner Japan’s largest exploration and production (E&P) company to ramp up unconventional natural gas development in northeastern British Columbia (BC).