E&P

The oil and gas division of North Dakota's Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) is planning a public hearing later this month for input on newly adopted Industrial Commission policy to reduce the amount of gas flaring at the wellhead.

The U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments through April 23 on Noble Energy’s plans to drill a number of new oil wells as part of the extensive oil/gas leases it holds in northeast Nevada. BLM's work is part of what it designates as the Mary's River Oil/Gas Exploration Project environmental assessment (EA).

Three years ago, as the amounts of associated natural gas being flared continued to soar in the Bakken Shale, North Dakota industry and state officials saw hope…

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has released new data from 2012 that shows emissions from the state's natural gas industry remained largely flat compared to 2011 when less development was happening in the Marcellus Shale.

Unconventional oil and gas companies operating in Pennsylvania paid $224.5 million in impact fees last year, representing the most collected since the fee was imposed in 2012, the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commision (PUC) said Friday.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) has adopted new requirements aimed at reducing air pollution from the state's growing shale oil and gas development that will find operators targeting fugitive emission sources such as leaking valves and connectors.

Virginia's governor has signed into law legislation (SB 519) intended to incentivize the development of natural gas infrastructure so that residents and businesses can better take advantage of low-cost shale and coalbed methane gas supplies.

Although South Dakota officials had been hoping to cash in on the oil and natural gas boom in the Williston Basin, there is little chance operators…

Two producers in the Thompson Divide area of western Colorado that could be an onramp to unleashing Mancos Shale supplies Tuesday received a two-year extension on their natural gas leases, to allow time for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conduct a new and unprecedented post-leasing environmental review of a broader region, according to the Western Energy Alliance (WEA).