E&P

Pure-play Appalachian operator Antero Resources Corp. on Monday announced several significant additions to its firm transportation portfolio and midstream infrastructure that have its forward-looking basis differentials improving and its skyrocketing production heading in more directions.

Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the Eagle Ford Shale region could increase sharply in the coming years as development ramps up, according to a recently released study.

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company LLC (Transco) is seeking offers from shippers to relinquish firm capacity on its system to support the proposed Atlantic Sunrise Project, which is intended to serve Marcellus Shale production.

Gastar Exploration Inc. said late Thursday that its Marcellus Shale production in Marshall County, WV, was flowing again, albeit at a reduced rate, after a gathering pipeline ruptured and caught fire in the area on April 5, shutting its wells in for four and a half days (see Shale Daily, April 7).

An El Nino event — the warming of water temperatures in the central and equatorial Pacific Ocean — is likely to limit the number of hurricanes that form in the Atlantic Basin this year, according to forecasters at Colorado State University (CSU), more good news for the U.S. natural gas industry, which is increasingly insulated from the impact of tropical storms.

Nirav Shah — commissioner of the New York Department of Health (DOH) and a figure at the center of the debate over whether to allow high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in the state — is planning to resign his post next month for a new job in California.

Rising shale gas supplies from the eastern United States took Ontario and Quebec by storm before a pipeline toll overhaul put domestic Canadian production back into contention to keep at least part of its former market share with mainstay natural gas customers.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has sent Chevron Appalachia LLC notice of nine violations stemming from an explosion and fire at a well site in Greene County, PA, that left one worker dead and another injured in February (see Shale Daily, Feb. 11).

Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s decision to launch a record $3 billion bond offering to help refinance debt drew positive remarks from two of the largest credit ratings agencies.