Marcellus

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC (TGP) has filed an application with FERC to construct its Connecticut Expansion Project, which is designed to provide more natural gas, including some from the Marcellus Shale, at its northeastern delivery end through upgrades to its existing pipeline system in three states.

Range Resources will begin remediation work on Monday to reclaim the land where a controversial water impoundment is thought to have leaked wastewater.

Royal Dutch Shell plc on Thursday announced two more agreements in a bid to restructure its North American portfolio and realign its shale operations with the divestiture of 126,000 net acres in North Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale and the Pinedale Anticline of Wyoming.

Rex Energy Corp. has agreed to purchase 207,000 net acres from Royal Dutch Shell plc affiliate SWEPI LP for $120 million, in a move that it said will significantly bolster its liquids-rich core in western Pennsylvania.

Construction of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s (Transco) Leidy Southeast expansion, which would help alleviate capacity constraints in the Marcellus Shale, “would not constitute a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment,” according to an environmental assessment (EA) prepared by FERC staff.

MarkWest Energy Partners LP continues to implement its efforts to meet growing demand for natural gas processing in the Appalachian Basin, saying it placed into service five major infrastructure projects during 2Q2014 and will construct seven more projects this year.

Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) on Tuesday announced two more Appalachia-focused pipeline projects aimed at getting Marcellus/Utica shale gas to higher-priced markets.

A quartet of gas utility/marketing companies is planning to tap Marcellus Shale gas with a new 100-mile pipeline that would serve markets in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Pure-play Antero Resources Corp. continues to churn out record natural gas production, surpassing 1 Bcfe/d in July, but its focus has increasingly shifted to building a processing and midstream portfolio to handle those volumes and generate more value.