Marcellus Drilling News

New Rough Patch for Norse Energy: Force Majeure Lawsuit

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:34:53 +0000

Is this lights out for Norse Energy in New York State? The company owns leases for some 130,000 acres of land in New York State. All of it is in either the Marcellus or Utica Shale play window with...

Range Resources Updates Investors (and Us) on Marcellus Efforts

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:33:58 +0000

Range Resources, the very first company to drill a Marcellus Shale well in southwestern PA in 2004, updated investors at the UBS Global Oil & Gas Conference yesterday. Range had some interesting...

Gov. Cuomo Says Poor Jobs Report Won’t Sway Him on Frack Decision

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:32:00 +0000

NY Gov. Andrew “The Ditherer” Cuomo continues to, well, dither when it comes to deciding whether or not it’s time to frack in New York. The very place where Marcellus and Utica...

Reporter Defends Moderating Pro-Drilling NY Forum

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:31:36 +0000

Apparently the anti-drilling reporter/book author Tom Wilber, who has taken “the devil’s money” (from pro-drillers) to moderate an upcoming forum in Albany, NY (see Shock Moderator...

API Poll: Vast Majority of Americans Think NatGas Exports Good

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:30:34 +0000

The American Petroleum Institute, the premier organization that represents the drilling industry in the U.S., hired Harris Interactive to poll Americans on their opinion about exporting natural gas....

Deloitte Report: Shale Revolution is Bridge to Renewable Future

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:29:11 +0000

Consulting firm Deloitte has just released a new white paper/report titled “America’s newfound power: What the U.S. should do to capitalize on the shale and renewable energy...

Anti-Drilling Sportsmen Group Endorses BLM Fracking Rules

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:28:57 +0000

Reaction to the release of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) new rules for fracking on federal lands (see BLM Releases Revised Rules for Fracking – Why it Matters) has been mostly...

New Utica Shale Magazine Launches in Harrison County, OH

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:27:46 +0000

A brand new full color, glossy magazine aimed at connecting the Utica Shale drilling industry with the local community has just launched in Harrison County, OH. The new Pipeline Connections is...

Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Wed, May 22, 2013

willisja — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:26:02 +0000

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Maryland Appalachian Lab professor honored for fracking report Cumberland Times-News Keith Eshleman, a...

Chesapeake Energy Appoints Anadarko Engineer as New CEO

willisja — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:05:50 +0000

Less than two months ago corporate raider Carl Icahn and other mercenary “stockholders” of Chesapeake Energy (with the help of complicit reporters at Bloomberg and Reuters)...

Cabot O&G Uses Marcellus Shale Gas to Power Drilling Rigs

willisja — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:58:22 +0000

Cabot Oil & Gas has jumped on the natural gas-powered drilling rig bandwagon. Yesterday, Cabot announced they have begun using “field gas”–Marcellus Shale gas from the very...

NYSPC Launches Free Webinars to Win Public Support for Fracking

willisja — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:57:21 +0000

The New York State Petroleum Council (NYSPC), part of the American Petroleum Institute, is launching a free webinar series for the public–particularly residents of New York–tomorrow...

PA House Bill 1414: New Reporting for Royalty Calculations

willisja — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:56:08 +0000

Listen up drillers and landowners in PA: Pennsylvania House Bill 1414 (copy embedded below) is making its way through the PA legislature. That bill, if passed, will require new reporting standards...

Bipartisan Policy Center: U.S. NatGas Prices Will Stay Low

willisja — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:55:16 +0000

It seems as if everyone is hauling out their crystal balls to try and divine where the price of natural gas will go in both the short and long term–and they all pretty much say the same thing:...

Chesapeake Donates $1M, Employees Help with OK Tornado Recovery

willisja — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:55 +0000

MDN is no fan of the new Chesapeake Energy under the tutelage of board member and corporate raider Carl Icahn–that you know from reading this site for any length of time. However, when a...