Shale Daily

The Marcellus Shale's earliest and most active operators will continue to see their fortunes rise as more infrastructure is built…

Crestwood Midstream Partners LP plans to further expand its Willow Lake Project in the Permian’s Delaware Basin with conversion of a portion of its Las Animas gas gathering system to rich gas service and construction of a cryogenic gas processing plant.

Not enough people are being trained to build, operate and maintain U.S. Gulf Coast petrochemical projects, which may impose constraints as expansions get underway in 2015, a top executive said this week. Meanwhile, the Department of Interior is losing employees to the private sector because it pays better, creating a vacuum within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that has led to less oversight and longer permitting times, particularly for the Bakken Shale.

After cancelling a set of public hearings last month regarding Hilcorp Energy Co.'s request for a forced pooling order on 3,267 acres in Western Pennsylvania, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has rescheduled those hearings for May.

A multi-billion-dollar project that has promised to help cut the increasing volumes of flared wellhead natural gas in North Dakota has been delayed indefinitely by ideveloper CHS Inc., based in St. Paul, MN, which is the nation's largest farmer-owned cooperative. There is no timeline for the project being restarted.

The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) has leased more than 1,400 net acres for natural gas drilling under public waterways in the state, and has raised nearly $5.9 million in signing bonuses.

Magellan Midstream Partners LP plans to construct a condensate splitter at its terminal in Corpus Christi, TX, under a fee-based, take-or-pay agreement with Trafigura AG. The project includes construction of more than one million bbl of storage, dock improvements and two additional truck rack bays at Magellan’s terminal as well as pipeline connectivity between Magellan’s…

An oil industry-funded study says allowing export of domestic crude oil would create thousands of jobs and be a boon to consumers and the U.S. economy.

North American shale natural gas production will grow to 64 Bcf/d by 2022, led by the Marcellus Shale, which will be responsible for 17 Bcf/d of that total, and maybe more, according to a new analysis by Ziff Energy.