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Range Blasts Media Coverage of Pennsylvania Contamination Case

Range Resources Corp. says it is complying with a court order to obtain and provide information for all of the chemicals used at a Marcellus Shale drilling and impoundment site in Washington County, PA, but it took issue with media reports suggesting that the company doesn’t know what chemicals are used in its hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations.

October 11, 2013

Range Blasts Media Coverage of Pennsylvania Contamination Case

Range Resources Corp. says it is complying with a court order to obtain and provide information for all of the chemicals used at a Marcellus Shale drilling and impoundment site in Washington County, PA, but it took issue with media reports suggesting that the company doesn’t know what chemicals are used in its hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations.

October 11, 2013

MSC Opposes Gubernatorial Hopeful’s Calls for NatGas Severance Tax

Gubernatorial candidates in Pennsylvania who have called for severance taxes on the state’s shale natural gas industry are embracing “misguided, job-crushing policies,” the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) said Thursday.

October 11, 2013

MSC Opposes Gubernatorial Hopeful’s Calls for NatGas Severance Tax

Gubernatorial candidates in Pennsylvania who have called for severance taxes on the state’s shale natural gas industry are embracing “misguided, job-crushing policies,” the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) said Thursday.

October 11, 2013
Economic, Climate Benefits of Shale NatGas Questioned

Economic, Climate Benefits of Shale NatGas Questioned

Unconventional natural gas in the onshore likely will keep U.S. prices low until 2020, but it may not translate to climate benefits or an improved economy, according to an elite group of industry, academic and scientific experts.

October 11, 2013
Economic, Climate Benefits of Shale NatGas Questioned

Economic, Climate Benefits of Shale NatGas Questioned

Unconventional natural gas in the onshore likely will keep U.S. prices low until 2020, but it may not translate to climate benefits or an improved economy, according to an elite group of industry, academic and scientific experts.

October 11, 2013

McClendon Utica Development Confirms Drilling Plans

Aubrey McClendon is bringing a whole lot of friends to the party to help him start up a substantial Utica Shale operation in eastern Ohio, the new company formed by the ex-Chesapeake Energy Corp. co-founder confirmed on Wednesday.

October 10, 2013
EIA Sees Southwest PA Gas Prices Slipping Below Henry Hub…Again

EIA Sees Southwest PA Gas Prices Slipping Below Henry Hub…Again

With the natural gas production boom out of the Utica and Marcellus shales of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio continuing to lower prices of the commodity…

October 10, 2013

Chesapeake Lay-Offs Part of Moves to Rein in Spending

More than 800 Chesapeake Energy Corp. employees were laid off on Tuesday as CEO Doug Lawler continues to make over the company that Aubrey McClendon built (see related story).

October 10, 2013

Industry Briefs

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP(KMP) has agreed with a large Eagle Ford Shale producer to extend the Kinder Morgan Crude and Condensate (KMCC) pipeline farther into South Texas. KMP is investing $74 million to build an 18-mile, 24-inch diameter lateral northwest from its DeWitt Station to a new facility in Gonzales County, TX, where it…

October 10, 2013