Marcellus

Pennsylvania regulators and officials from Range Resources Corp. are trying to determine what, if anything, caused a large water impoundment in the southeast part of the state to leak enough brine water that high levels of chloride were detected in the soil beneath it.

An environmental group says Sunoco Logistics Partners LP is trying to circumvent local zoning ordinances in Pennsylvania by applying for an exemption with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) for its Mariner East pipeline.

Gastar Exploration Inc. said Monday that it’s once again facing production constraints in the Marcellus Shale after its third-party midstream operator experienced another pipeline rupture in West Virginia last month, but said the problem would be offset by volumes from recently completed wells in the Midcontinent.

A judge in Pennsylvania said he will wait until after the state budget is enacted before considering an environmental group’s request to halt oil and natural gas leasing under state parks and forests.

Affiliates of American Energy Partners LP (AELP) are picking up acreage in Texas, Ohio and West Virginia in a trio of deals worth a combined $4.25 billion, marking American Energy’s entry into the Permian Basin and the southern Marcellus Shale, and its continued expansion in the Utica Shale.

MarkWest Energy Partners LP plans to double the propane and heavier fractionation capacity at its Hopedale complex in Harrison County, OH, with an expansion expected to be complete by the first quarter of 2015.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane filed hundreds of charges — including for alleged environmental crimes, insurance fraud, theft, conspiracy and corruption — against a Marcellus Shale waste hauler and its family member-owners on Friday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday ruled that FERC “impermissibly segmented the environmental review” of Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s (TGP) Northeast Upgrade Project and remanded the case to the Commission “for further consideration of segmentation and cumulative impacts.”

Economics and long-term production are driving Rice Energy Inc., the new kid on the Marcellus-Utica block, bent on making the most of its core areas.