Utica

Texas Eastern Offering 'All of the Above' Shale Access to Louisiana

 Spectra Energy Transmission's Texas Eastern Transmission announced an expansion to serve industrial markets in South Louisiana by Spring 2015 with shale gas supplies from multiple basins. An open season runs through Sept. 27. Read More

Obama Talks NatGas Briefly, Blasts Congress for Industry Influence

 Although President Obama and the participants in a town hall meeting at Binghamton University in New York on Friday devoted most of their discourse to education, energy was mentioned once, with the president acknowledging the rise of natural gas but calling for further investment in alternative energy not derived from fossil fuels. Read More

Integrated Wet Gas Region Forms in West Virginia, SW Pennsylvania

 Southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia have formed an "integrated region" for natural gas drilling, an area where well drilling increasingly has been focused in the Appalachian Basin, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Read More

Appalachian Midstream Venture Secures Up to $1B in Credit

Blue Racer Midstream LLC, designed to provide expanded services over the next three years in the Utica and Marcellus shales, on Thursday secured an initial five-year, $800 million credit facility that could be expanded to $1 billion. Read More

Mixed Jobs Reports Emerge in Pennsylvania, Ohio

 Nearly all of the workers hired by the natural gas industry for jobs in the Marcellus and Utica shales in 2012 were residents of states in the region, according to a workforce survey conducted by the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC). Read More

McClendon's E&P Readying Comeback in U.S. Onshore

 Aubrey McClendon hasn't taken long to gallop back in the U.S. onshore unconventional drilling business, if analysts are to be believed. Read More

Producers See Equity Heating Up, 'Vigorous' Enthusiasm for Permian

 Exploration and production (E&P) companies remain enthusiastic about the U.S. onshore, in particular the Permian Basin, Niobrara formation, Utica Shale and the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS), based on observations at the recent EnerCom Consulting oil and natural gas conference, said two analyst teams who were there. However, Marcellus Shale pricing appears to be a "real concern for the buyside." Read More

Prometheus' LNG to Fuel Antero Rigs in Marcellus, Utica

 Prometheus Energy Group Inc. announced that it had signed a multi-year agreement to supply Antero Resources with enough liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power "a significant portion" of Antero's natural gas-fueled drilling rigs in the Marcellus and Utica shales. Read More

Texas Eastern Holding Open Season for Marcellus-to-Midwest Project

 Spectra Energy's Texas Eastern Transmission LP is holding a supplemental open season for firm transportation service on its Uniontown to Gas City (U2GC) Expansion Project, which offers shippers a new firm path from the Marcellus Shale in west Uniontown, PA, to the pipeline's existing interconnect with Panhandle Eastern Pipeline near Gas City, IN. Read More

Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia Issued 411 Permits in July

 State regulators in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia collectively issued 411 permits for oil and gas drilling during the month of July, most of which targeted the Marcellus and Utica shales. Read More