Marcellus

Pennsylvania’s top utility regulator wants pipeline companies to use real-time monitoring and post additional employees at compressor stations in order to safeguard against, or actively handle, potential incidents.

Despite an agreement to sell some of its non-core liquids assets, Enerplus Corp. increased its 2013 estimates for annual average and exit production, thanks to a “strong performance” from its core assets in the Bakken and Marcellus shales.

EQT Corp., whose tentacles in the Appalachian Basin stretch into exploration and production (E&P), midstream operations and commercial applications, said Thursday oil and natural gas production in 3Q2013 rose 42% year/year, with Marcellus Shale output up by almost three-quarters.

Seneca Resources Corp. credited the Marcellus Shale for “tremendous growth” during the fiscal fourth quarter, with production and reserves posting big gains — reserves to a record high — and a successful drilling program in Pennsylvania allowing it to raise production guidance for 2014.

It’s not how many rigs there are in the shale patch; it’s what they’re doing. As drilling productivity continues to climb, the industry has realized a simple rig count is a poor indicator of future production. Now the Energy Information Administration (EIA) is monitoring and reporting on drilling productivity.

Former Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) chairman David Spigelmyer has been named as the organization’s president following a two-month search process, MSC said Tuesday.

Tennessee Gas Pipeline and Texas Eastern Transmission are ready to “let ‘er rip” Nov. 1, opening up more than 1.4 Bcf/d of new pipeline capacity to New York, New Jersey and New England.

Range Resources Corp. announced another record high for quarterly production — this time achieving 960 MMcfe/d for 3Q2013– thanks in large part to the continuing success of its drilling program in the Marcellus Shale.

The way that production has been climbing in Marcellus-Utica Shale country, there could be enough to support two pipeline projects to carry natural gas liquids (NGL) from the region to the Gulf Coast, a Kinder Morgan executive allowed during an earnings conference call Wednesday. And the company is weighing other projects to move the region’s output into the Northeast.