Utica

Magnum Hunter Announces New Partner for Eureka Midstream Subsidiary

Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. picked a new business partner for its midstream subsidiary, Eureka Hunter Holdings LLC, in a move that it said Tuesday will create significant savings and more flexibility for its upstream operations. Read More

Rex Energy's Latest Ohio Wells Test Wet; More Drilling Ahead in PA

Rex Energy Corp. plans to put a newly contracted rig to work at the beginning of next year in its Moraine East area in Butler County, PA, which it received in a $120 million deal last month with Royal Dutch Shell plc affiliate SWEPI LP (see Shale Daily, Aug. 13). Read More

Former Ohio Steel Mill to Serve Oil, Gas Development

A Pittsburgh-based holding company plans to convert a shuttered cold rolling steel mill in Yorkville, OH, into an industrial services terminal to support oil and gas companies in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Read More

Activists Continue Push to Limit Ohio Oil, Gas Development

Ohio activists are continuing to push for referendums to amend city charters that would ban horizontal hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and injection wells, even in areas where little or no oil and gas activity is taking place. Read More

Appalachian NatGas to Fuel Growing Midcontinent, Gulf Coast Appetites

With robust production growth in the Appalachian Basin and extensive infrastructure expansions on both sides of the U.S. and Canadian borders... Read More

2Q2014 Ohio Unconventional NatGas Production Tops All of 2012

Continuing an upward climb, operators in Ohio's Marcellus and Utica shales produced more than 88 Bcf of natural gas and 2.4 million bbl of oil last quarter... Read More

In Latest Incident, Hilcorp Seeks Cause of Weekend Wellsite Fire

Hilcorp Energy Co. and state regulators are still trying to determine what caused a separator to catch fire early last Saturday at one of its well sites in Mercer County, PA, near the Ohio border. Read More

Poll: Pennsylvanians Like Shale Development, Want to Tax It, Too

A new poll shows that residents of New York State and Pennsylvania have very divergent opinions on Marcellus Shale gas extraction, with most New Yorkers opposed, a majority of Pennsylvanians in favor, and even more of the latter in support of adopting a severance tax. Read More

Industry Brief

Gastar's First West Virginia Utica Shale Well Exceeds Expectations

Gastar Exploration Inc has delivered on one of the earliest publicly announced tests from the Utica Shale in West Virginia, where its long-awaited Simms U-5H well in Marshall County has exceeded expectations with a 48-hour gross sales rate of 29.4 MMcf/d. Read More