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U.S. Shale Oil Output Needs to Slow for Prices to Recover, Says Goldman

Monterey Shale Dreams Clash With Public Policy Drives

U.S. Investors Seek LNG Export License for Quebec Terminal

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Independents Unite to Lobby for U.S. Crude Exports

Continental, South Korea's SK to Drill for Natural Gas in Cana-Woodford

Cash Gains, But Futures Slump Further

Rocks Are Only Part of What Sets Monterey Shale Apart, Operators Say

Falling Oil Prices Squeezing Onshore E&P Operators

PSE&G Cuts Residential NatGas Bills 31% for Three Months

Physical Gas, Futures Dance Higher; November Expires Up 8 Cents

Wattenberg Pushes Anadarko's 3Q2014 Volumes to Record High

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Geismar Plant Restart Coming Up, Williams Partners Says

LA City Muni Outlines Plan to Drop Coal, Add Gas

Noble Hits Record Sales Volumes in 3Q, Brings More Wells Online Early

Shell Midstream IPO Could be Largest MLP Offering in Decade

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California Fracking Rules Are Broadened, Regulator Says

June 18, 2014
Richard Nemec
A California oil and gas regulator on Tuesday characterized the state's latest revised draft hydraulic fracturing (fracking) rules as going beyond any other state’s since the law mandating them (SB 4) applies to all well stimulation activity, fracking just being part of what the recently revised rules cover. Read More

California Lawmakers Reject Proposed Fracking Moratorium

May 30, 2014
Richard Nemec
The California state Senate on Thursday rejected a bill (SB 1132) seeking to establish a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), for which the state is in the process of finalizing new rules from a bill (SB 4) passed last year. Read More

EIA Slashes Monterey Shale Recoverable Oil Estimate By 96%

May 21, 2014
David Bradley
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has cut its estimate of recoverable oil in California's Monterey Shale to 600 million bbl, a 96% decrease from previous estimates, an agency spokesman told NGI's Shale Daily Wednesday. Read More
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Proposed California Drill Bans Don't Faze Oxy CEO

May 7, 2014
Richard Nemec
The recent proliferation of local government proposals to curb or ban oil/natural gas activity, including hydraulic fracturing (fracking), is not immediately ringing any alarm bells in the newly relocated Houston executive offices of Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) as it works to spin off its multi-billion-dollar California operations into a separate company. Read More

Another California Fracking Bill Clears Committee

April 9, 2014
Richard Nemec
Even as work goes forward to implement new regulations (SB 4) in California on the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) by oil and natural gas companies, another bill to ban the practice (SB1132) cleared its first hurdle Tuesday in the state Senate. Read More
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Geologic, Regulatory Aftershocks from Latest Oklahoma Quakes

April 8, 2014
Richard Nemec
More earthquakes jolted parts of central Oklahoma Saturday, prompting added speculation about the ties between the quakes and oil and natural gas drilling wastewater injection processes. Although small in magnitude -- measuring 2.6-4.0 on the Richter Scale -- the frequency of the tremors has already surpassed 2013 totals, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS). Read More

Long Beach, CA, Keeps Drilling Despite Fracking Debate

March 28, 2014
Richard Nemec
Amid corporate and governmental decisions and worried local citizen action groups, Long Beach, CA, is holding true to its long fossil fuel history and just keeps drilling. Read More

Monterey Shale, Northeast Nevada Plays on Radar

March 27, 2014
Richard Nemec
Among still-emerging plays on the U.S. shale horizon, California's Monterey Shale and an under-explored northeast corner of Nevada received a shout out at the BakerHostetler Shale Symposium on Monday in Houston. Read More

California City Sets Moratorium on Drilling

March 20, 2014
Richard Nemec
The city council in Carson, CA, a Los Angeles suburb located in the oil-producing area surrounding the Long Beach-LA Harbor, on Wednesday night set a 45-day ban on oil/natural gas drilling as it considers plans by Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) to step up directional drilling from a 6.5-acre site in the city. The ban could be extended up to two years. Read More

Renewed Anti-Fracking Effort Surfaces in California

March 12, 2014
Richard Nemec
California Gov. Jerry Brown was shouted down by anti-hydraulic fracturing (fracking) advocates last weekend in Los Angeles at a state Democratic Party meeting in which a majority of the political party attendees forced a call for a ban on the drilling practice as part of the official platform this election year. Read More

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