Marcellus

ANR Pipeline Co. on Monday announced two open seasons for projects intended to give Marcellus and Utica shale gas a new export option and access to the pipeline’s markets in the Midwest and Gulf Coast.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has asked lawmakers to drop the word “acting” from the job titles of two state employees: the acting secretaries of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR).

Pinto Energy LLC is developing a small-scale gas-to-liquids (GTL) facility in Ashtabula, OH, to take advantage of low-cost natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales. Pinto Chairman Guy Dove toldNGI’s Shale Dailythe facility could be the first of its kind in the country and advancements in GTL technology are making it possible.

Gulf South Pipeline Co. LP is targeting growing industrial demand in the Baton Rouge-New Orleans, LA, region with a potential expansion of its system that would tap shale gas supplies from multiple basins. The project joins another targeting a similar market from rival Spectra Energy Transmission.

Production out of the nation’s shale plays over the past five years, especially the Marcellus Shale, has proven many early skeptics wrong, according to Terry Engelder, a geosciences professor at Pennsylvania State University who helped spawn interest in the Marcellus through his reserve estimates in 2008.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released the latest in a series of reports analyzing land disturbance from natural gas drilling over a six-year period in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, and it plans to release another report covering nearly half the state by the end of the year.

Appalachian operator EQT Corp. and the oilfield services company Green Field Energy Services have completed multiple hydraulic fracturing (fracking) stages using pumps powered 100% by Marcellus Shale gas at a well site.

FERC Thursday approved Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s application to increase the compression capacity along its 300 Line to meet the growing demand for interstate natural gas transportation service in the northeastern United States and Canada.

In what’s being viewed as a symbolic move with little traction, a Democratic lawmaker in Pennsylvania has introduced a bill calling for an “open-ended” ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the state until it can be fully studied.