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ExxonMobil Corp. has launched a binding open season for a major pipeline to connect Permian Basin oil and condensate from production areas in New Mexico to its terminal in West Texas near Wink.

Blue Ridge Mountain Resources Inc. stockholders have approved the company’s merger with Eclipse Resources Corp., clearing one of the last hurdles for the combination. The deal has already been approved by boths boards and Eclipse’s stockholders. Once the transaction is completed, which is expected in the last week of February, the new company is to be renamed Montage Resources Corp. and trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “MR.” The new company would have a 227,000 net acre position in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and produce about 560 MMcfe/d.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Wednesday launched a 14-day public comment period for XTO Energy Inc.’s proposed Horsebench Natural Gas Development Project in part of the Uinta Basin, 36 miles north of Price, UT.

An XTO Energy Inc. Utica Shale well in Belmont County, OH, is still leaking natural gas and brine water two weeks after it blew out when contractors were finishing completion operations.

A federal court has preliminarily approved an $11 million class action settlement that would resolve claims that ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. wrongly deducted post-production costs from the royalty payments of hundreds of Pennsylvania landowners.

ExxonMobil Corp.’s XTO Energy Inc. on Thursday sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to force federal officials to release documents that could clear the producer of eight criminal environmental charges filed in 2013 in Pennsylvania.

A consent decree was approved Wednesday for XTO Energy Inc. to pay a $100,000 fine for discharging 50,000 gallons of toxic wastewater illegally in 2010 at a Marcellus Shale well site in Pennsylvania.