Marcellus

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.

A consent decree was approved Wednesday for XTO Energy Inc. to pay a $100,000 fine for discharging 50,000 gallons of toxic wastewater illegally in 2010 at a Marcellus Shale well site in Pennsylvania.

FERC Monday issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) of Texas Eastern Transmission LP’s (Tetco) expansion project for existing facilities that would pave the way for the delivery of 600,000 Dth/d of Marcellus gas to the pipeline’s market areas in New Jersey and New York.

A snap poll conducted by theSyracuse Post-Standardin New York has found that nearly 88% of respondents believe hydraulic fracturing (fracking) should at least be permitted in certain parts of the state, while only about 10% believe the practice should be banned outright.

Dominion Resources Inc. is well into the process to secure a partner to farm-out about 100,000 prospective liquids-rich acres in West Virginia, offering a can’t-lose proposition for both sides, a spokesman said Monday.

A nonprofit energy aggregator that supplies natural gas to more than 250,000 customers in Northeast Ohio has signed a six-year contract to purchase gas produced from the Marcellus and Utica shales.