Marcellus

Rex Energy Corp. on Friday reported favorable results for five wells in the Warrior South prospect, an area of Ohio in the Utica Shale, and provided an update on four wells it placed into sales in Western Pennsylvania.

Responding to shipper interest in a natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline servicing the Marcellus and Utica shales, Sunoco Logistics Partners LP launched a binding open season for its Mariner East 2 project on Wednesday.

Enterprise Products Partners (EPP) said Thursday the process of injecting ethane into the Appalachia-to-Texas Express (Atex) pipeline began late last month and will continue until the end of the year, with commercial service expected to begin in January.

A Pennsylvania lawmaker has introduced a pair of bills designed to prevent the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from using unmarked vehicles and video surveillance at oil and gas work sites.

A poll of 1,250 registered voters living in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions released on Monday found that an overwhelming majority of those surveyed support more environmental safeguards and regulations as a condition of further oil and gas development in Appalachia.

An attorney hired by two companies navigating their way through bankruptcy court has demanded that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) complete a supplemental generic environmental impact statement (SGEIS) on high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) within two weeks or face additional legal proceedings.

Horizontal drilling continues at a steady pace in West Virginia, where operators are concentrating on a wet gas zone in the Marcellus formation, located in the north-central part of the state and reaching into its panhandle.

The Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative, a group of nonpartisan, state-level research organizations, has released an economic study showing that far fewer new jobs have been created in states where Marcellus and Utica shale development is underway than previously reported.

Royal Dutch Shell plc has been in negotiations with several landowners who own property around a site in western Pennsylvania that the company is considering for a “world class” ethane cracker, a sign that Shell could be moving forward with the project.