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Range Resources Bullish on Virginia's Nora Field

Range Resources Corp. turned in another solid quarter of record production. Read More

Eclipse Beats 3Q Guidance With Focus on Accelerating Development

Eclipse Resources Corp. said Monday that it slightly exceeded its third quarter guidance by producing 85.8 MMcfe/d in its core operating area of southeast Ohio in another update that shows the company has gained some momentum heading into the end of the year. Read More

Texas Adopts Quake-Minded Injection Well Rules

The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) on Tuesday adopted rule changes that are intended to more closely regulate drilling waste disposal wells in areas of the state where there has been or could be heightened seismic activity. Read More

Magnum, Rex Energy Report Solid Appalachia Output

Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. said Wednesday that it had finally completed test results at the Stewart Winland well pad in Tyler County, WV, releasing flow rates from the other three wells nearly a month after an initial well tested at 46.5 MMcf/d (see Shale Daily,Sept. 25). Read More

New Study Links Fracking to Earthquakes in Ohio

A study published in the journal Seismological Research Letters suggests that horizontal hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in Ohio's Utica Shale triggered a series of 400 small earthquakes in Harrison County over a two-month period last year. Read More

Illinois Panel Postpones Vote on Fracking Rules Until After November Elections

A legislative panel in Illinois has delayed a vote on revised rules governing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) until its next meeting in November, following state and national elections. Read More

Maryland Resort Landowners Oppose Vertical Marcellus Drilling, But OK With Horizontal

A property owners' association in a popular western Maryland lake resort area said it opposes surface structures for vertical drilling for Marcellus Shale gas, but is amenable to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) that accesses the play from a distance. 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

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

Crude-by-Rail on Track for Resolution, Says API Economist

The issues that linger between federal regulators and oil/rail industry representatives over crude oil rail transportation are going to be resolved, but changes in the Obama administration’s cabinet could slow the process, the American Petroleum Institute's (API) chief economist told NGI Wednesday. Read More

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