Marcellus

Rex Energy Facing More Opposition for Drilling Near Pennsylvania School

Two environmental organizations based near Philadelphia have filed an appeal to a township's zoning ordinance on the other side of the state, where Rex Energy Corp. has started work to drill five unconventional Marcellus Shale wells close to a large school campus. Read More

West Virginia Regulators Coping With Growing Oil, Gas Permit Applications

With more than 1,000 horizontal shale well permits issued to date in West Virginia, and with only about 5% of unconventional oil and gas reserves under development there, state regulators are confronting a pile of paperwork that has created a backlog of pending permit applications and slowed production in some instances. Read More

Texas Gas Planning Two-Way Street: Ohio to/from Louisiana; DTI Proposes Upstream Marcellus Link

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners' Texas Gas Transmission LLC is proposing to move more Marcellus/Utica... Read More

Magnum Hunter Steadily Selling Off Bakken Assets

Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. keeps whittling away at its North Dakota portfolio, announcing late Thursday another deal to sell more of its nonoperated Bakken Shale assets, this time divesting 12,500 net acres for $84.7 million to a large undisclosed independent. Read More

WPX Still Appealing PA Orders to Replace Families’ Water Supplies

WPX Energy Inc. has appealed all three of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) orders to permanently replace the water supplies of families that were impacted by problems at the company's impoundment in Westmoreland County in 2012. Read More

EQT Fights Escalating Penalties for Water Violations

Marcellus heavyweight EQT Corp., one of Pennsylvania's leading producers, is in a showdown with the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) over a 2012 impoundment leak that finds it facing a $4.53 million fine and six separate criminal charges in Commonwealth Court. Read More

Antero Ops Still On Hold at Site of West Virginia Drill Collision

Operations at Antero Resources Corp.'s Primm Pad in Doddridge County, WV, remain at a standstill after the company inadvertently breached a producing well while drilling another there two weeks ago. Read More

Pennsylvania PUC Rejects, Reverses Ruling Against Sunoco as Utility

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has rejected a ruling by two administrative law judges that it should dismiss a petition by Sunoco Logistics Partners LP to be a public utility for the Mariner East pipeline. The PUC ordered more public hearings on the issue. Read More

For First Time in Decades, WV to Lease Valuable Mineral Rights Under Ohio River

The West Virginia Department of Commerce is evaluating bids from several exploration and production (E&P) companies interested in valuable mineral rights below the Ohio River in the northern part of the state. Read More

PA DEP Secretary Resigns Amid Email Scandal

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Christopher Abruzzo, along with the agency's top attorney, resigned on Thursday following a rapidly unfolding scandal involving sexually explicit emails that were exchanged among dozens of former and current staffers in the state attorney general's office. Read More