Shale Daily

Howard Energy Partners has begun construction on two liquids-handling facilities to serve South Texas production from the Eagle Ford Shale and provide expanded market access for multiple products.

Goodrich Petroleum Corp. said it encountered a problem during hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations at a well in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) in Mississippi, but it is moving forward with two additional wells targeting the play.

As a clearer picture emerges from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s recent ruling that struck down key provisions of the state’s most comprehensive oil and gas legislation, the court’s decision is likely to have repercussions for a decade or more, sources say, with the impact extending across the spectrum and touching more than just the pace of the industry’s operations in the Marcellus Shale.

U.S. exploration and production (E&P) spending should increase 5-10% in 2014, but that won’t translate into gains for drilling rig activity, analysts with Raymond James & Associates Inc. have concluded.

Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP unit Calumet San Antonio Refining LLC has contracted with TexStar Midstream Logistics LP for TexStar to construct, own and operate a 30,000 b/d crude oil pipeline system to carry Eagle Ford crude oil to Calumet’s San Antonio, TX, refinery.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 6 followed the rules three years ago when it issued an emergency order against Range Resources Corp., alleging that its Barnett Shale drilling activities caused methane contamination of water wells, according to recent findings of EPA’s Office of Inspector General.

An estimated $153.7 billion was spent on oil and natural gas drilling in the United States in 2012, up 23.1% from 2011, according to a new report issued by the American Petroleum Institute (API). Significantly, it revealed that spending on shale drilling fell during the period.

Oil and gas companies operating in North Dakota could soon be required to report the location of thousands of miles of underground gathering lines to state regulators.

Shell Chemical LP has signed an amended purchase agreement that extends the period of time it has to buy a 300-acre site in Western Pennsylvania, which it continues to evaluate for a long-awaited ethane cracker that would convert ethane from the Marcellus Shale into ethylene.