Marcellus/Utica
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October 20, 2015
TAM International—an independent oilfield services company providing inflatable packers, swellable packers, and downhole products—has announced the first run of the PosiFrac Toe Sleeve in the Utica shale.
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October 15, 2015
Gastar Exploration has entered into a definitive purchase and sale agreement to acquire additional working and net revenue interests from its AMI partner, Husky Ventures and certain other parties.
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August 27, 2015
Natural gas production across all major shale regions in EIA's Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) is projected to decrease for the first time in September. Production from these seven shale regions reached a high in May at 45.6 Bcfd and is expected to decline to 44.9 Bcfd in September.
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August 14, 2015
MarkWest Energy Partners and The Energy & Minerals Group (EMG) are to develop a new, large-scale dry gas gathering system to strategically expand the parties’ position in the Utica shale.
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August 13, 2015
Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced the draft final revisions to the Environmental Protection Performance Standards at Oil and Gas Well Sites rulemaking (Chapters 78 and 78a).
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July 29, 2015
Torgrim Reitan, who’s about to take charge of Statoil's U.S. business after serving as CFO since 2011, has one priority: improve profitability by cutting costs.
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June 15, 2015
Unimin Energy Solutions announced Monday the first delivery of frac sands by unit train to its Jerry Run, West Virginia terminal.
Article
May 2015
A data-driven, neural network model was developed to quickly and economically evaluate completion effectiveness for Marcellus shale wells. This model was used to identify significant opportunity to improve production for new wells by modifying completion and frac design. According to the model, geology and reservoir quality dominate Marcellus production. However, controllable contact and conductivity-related parameters are also significant. The number of frac treatments and the amount of proppant used in the completion rank first and second in significance. This is followed by perforation design, fluid volume and treatment rate.
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May 04, 2015
WPX Energy has signed an agreement to sell a package of Marcellus shale marketing contracts and release certain related firm transportation capacity to an undisclosed buyer for in excess of $200 million cash.
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April 16, 2015
The profitability of some U.S. shale wells at current prices will almost double as cost cutting and technology turns them into cash gushers despite oil’s crash.
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April 07, 2015
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania -- CONSOL Energy has announced the certification of its operational practices in the Appalachian basin by the Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD).
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April 01, 2015
CONSOL Energy and Halliburton have announced the deployment of the first frac spread that is fully compliant with EPA’s 2015 Tier 4F emissions standard for non-road, high-horsepower engines.
Article
March 2015
A newly developed, ruggedized air-drilling system increased rig up time, reduced costs for mud and cuttings disposal, improved hole cleaning, and increased ROP.
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February 17, 2015
COLUMBUS (Bloomberg) -- An Ohio city lost a battle for control over oil and gas drilling permits within its borders with the Ohio Supreme Court saying the authority belongs to the state.
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February 03, 2015
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Fairmount Santrol has released the latest results from its Propel SSP proppant transport technology field trial.
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February 02, 2015
WPX Energy has completed the sale of its operations in northeast Pennsylvania, including the release of certain firm transportation capacity, to Southwestern Energy Company.
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January 09, 2015
HOUSTON -- Baker Hughes has announced that the U.S. onshore well count for the fourth quarter of 2014 was 9,544 wells, relatively unchanged compared to the third quarter of 2014. Compared to the fourth quarter 2013, the well count was up 461 wells or 5%.
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January 05, 2015
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma -- Creating one of the largest pure-play Appalachian E&P companies in the U.S., American Energy Partners affiliates American Energy – Utica (AEU) and American Energy – Marcellus (AEM) have announced that they will combine in an all-stock transaction.
