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The elected Board of Supervisors in Kern County, CA, in the middle of the state's oil patch in the lower San Joaquin Valley, was sued in California Superior Court last Thursday for allegedly ignoring environmental risks in approving a $100 million crude-by-rail project in Bakersfield. The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and the Association of Irritated Residents, among others, filed the legal action. Read More

More than a year after becoming the only local jurisdiction in New Mexico to ban all oil and natural gas activity, Mora County's three-member elected commission voted last Tuesday against repealing the ban it passed in April 2013. However, an industry representative predicts that the ban will be repealed next year. Read More

Elected officials in Washington County, VA, have approved a change to local zoning laws that will open the county to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract natural gas locked in limestone, sandstone and some deeper shale formations. Read More

Houston-based Stratex Oil & Gas Holdings Inc. has entered a joint development agreement and established an area of mutual interest (AMI) in the Mississippian Lime (ML) of Kansas with privately-held Eagle Oil & Gas Co., marking another entrant into the nascent play. Read More

Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America (Natural) is seeking to abandon Texas-Oklahoma pipeline and related facilities it says are failing and no longer needed by firm shippers except for one power generator that has yet to reach agreement with the company. Read More

Appalachian pure-play Eclipse Resources Corp. said late Wednesday that production has started at two of its pads in Ohio's Utica Shale, including the first in the company's condensate type-curve area and another that provides an early read-through for other operators preparing to test Utica wells in West Virginia. Read More

About 15 months since its initial public offering, Fort Worth, TX-based Athlon Energy has continued to win praise from analysts who follow the company... Read More

Goodrich Petroleum Corp. Tuesday turned in results for its latest Tuscaloosa Marine Shale well, and they show improvement from some other wells recently drilled... Read More

Pennsylvania natural gas producers may be pulling back to focus on higher-margin targets, but their wells appear to have not gotten the message... Read More

California’s Santa Barbara County has an initiative (Measure P) on the November ballot aimed at restricting, if not banning, most enhanced drilling practices. A new statewide law (SB 4) sets rules, reporting and permitting requirements for what is designated as "well stimulation" drilling, which includes hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and various acidization processes. Read More