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A legal fight over ownership of mountain stone — and whether property owners can stop removal of the decorative rocks by others who hold mineral rights to their land — goes to trial before a Tennessee judge Tuesday.They key question may be: Is a rock a mineral?Ed Lewis and four other ...

Testimony began Monday in a trial that could decide whether gas drilling will be allowed at Rayzor Ranch.The trial, which was set to continue this morning, centers on whether Fort Worth-based Range Production Co. still has the right to drill at the west Denton mixed-use development. The Denton Ci...

Oil climbed back above $80 a barrel today, in line with gains across financial markets as dealers anticipated the latest batch of data, expected to show a slow-down in unemployment in the world's biggest economy.US crude for December delivery rose 45 cents to $80.07 a barrel by 1025 GMT, after sh...

State regulators are fining a Houston-based company because its natural-gas drilling operations polluted residents’ water wells in northeastern Pennsylvania.Department of Environmental Protection officials said Wednesday that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. is paying $120,000 in connection with i...

Nearly 1,600 Marcellus Shale gas well drilling permits have been issued by the state so far this year, more than triple the number issued in all of 2008.The statistics, compiled by the state Department of Environmental Protection, show that about one-third of the permitting activity this yea...

Chesapeake Energy just made a brilliant move in promising not to drill for gas in the New York City reservoir watershed. It’s not a prime site in the Marcellus Shale, and the difficulties of installing distribution pipelines would be monumental.The state’s push for adequate environmen...

Though not totally opposed to natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, environmentalists still have concerns about its potential impact on water, air and New Yorker's health, even as an industry leader says the practice is not only safe but becoming "greener and greener.""Operators want to be...

Oil rose above $80 a barrel today, extending the previous session's near 2% gain, following a US industry report showing an unexpected fall in crude stocks and supported by a weaker dollar.The US dollar fell against a basket of currencies today, helping to send gold prices to record highs and lif...

In an area that spans nearly half of eastern Pennsylvania, beginning around Williamsport, there are only six state Department of Environmental Protection employees specifically assigned to monitor water quality and perform inspections of natural-gas production sites - at a time when it is evident...

The biggest energy innovation of the decade is natural gas—more specifically what is called "unconventional" natural gas. Some call it a revolution.Yet the natural gas revolution has unfolded with no great fanfare, no grand opening ceremony, no ribbon cutting. It just crept up. In 1990, unc...

Midland city leaders have a big decision ahead of them: how strict should laws be on drilling inside city limits?A draft ordinance, three years in the making, has now been revised and will be presented to the city council 2 weeks from now.“It's rather lengthy, it's pretty complicated but we...

The biggest energy innovation of the decade is natural gas—more specifically what is called “unconventional” natural gas. Some call it a revolution.Yet the natural gas revolution has unfolded with no great fanfare, no grand opening ceremony, no ribbon cutting. It just crept up. ...

Oil and natural gas company Pioneer Natural Resources Inc. reported positive initial production from one of its wells in the Eagle Ford shale, located in Texas, sending its shares up more than 6 percent.The company said its Sinor z5 well, which is currently producing to sales, came in with an ini...

The decision by the Chesapeake Energy Corporation not to drill for natural gas in New York City’s watershed is a smart and welcome move on the company’s part, and very good news for the 8.2 million New York City residents who depend on this environmentally sensitive region for their d...

A company that would truck waste water from Southern Tier drilling operations is proposing a treatment plant in the Town of Owego.Patriot Water Treatment pitched its plans to convert a former car dealership at 936 Taylor Road to planning board officials Tuesday evening. The proposal calls for ins...

U.S. natural gas producers are parting with their pipeline and processing plants in some of the most established fields in a bet to woo investors with new discoveries.This year, natural gas prices fell to their lowest levels in about seven years, prompting banks to rein in the amount they were wi...

There is an intense debate unfolding in New York over the wisdom of extending natural gas drilling rights in the state’s portion of the massive Marcellus Shale. This geological formation stretches across the southern tier of New York State and through portions of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Vi...

Workers looking to cash in on the Marcellus Shale are lining up.More than 200 of them, resumes in hand Monday, waited in the parking lot of the Riverstone Inn in Bradford County, where Chesapeake Energy recruited workers as it intensifies natural gas production in northern Susquehanna County.Insi...

Ten percent of all of the current oil and gas exploration in the United States is centered in a corner of northwestern Louisiana, home to what’s known as the Haynesville Shale.Even more surprising, says Scott Angelle, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, is “5 p...

A bipartisan effort to promote awareness and use of domestic natural gas kicked off Thursday in Washington with the official launching of the Congressional Natural Gas Caucus.U.S. Rep. John Fleming, R-Minden, and U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., are members, representing their respective parties. ...

William Yoho told Wood County commissioners he purchased oil, gas and mineral rights in an 18-acre tract of land off Lee Creek in Tygart District back in 1990 but wasn't notified of the tax due and now the mineral rights are scheduled to be sold at the Nov. 8 public auction of delinquencies."We h...

Oil prices edged lower today, back toward $81 a barrel, as scepticism the economic recovery was robust enough to spur a convincing rise in fuel demand curbed appetites to extend this week's powerful rally.US crude futures have rallied by around $10 a barrel this month and hit a year-high of $82 a...

In a seemingly nonstop line of emerging shale plays, the Eagle Ford Shale of southwest Texas, near the Texas-Mexico border, is just the latest during the past several years to spark interest, but many companies see potential all the same.Since Houston’s Petrohawk Energy Corp. “discove...

Wheeling City Council approved a resolution Tuesday night that will allow Chesapeake Appalachia to drill for natural gas on city property near Oglebay and Wheeling parks.Some residents are worried however about the environmental impacts drilling could have on the parks and their community. E...

CARENCRO, La., Oct. 21, 2009 — OMNI Energy Services Corp. announced today that it has been awarded a contract with a leading seismic data acquisition company to perform a major seismic drilling project in the Marcellus Shale geographic region. The contract is expected to generate approximat...

In its weekly release on Friday, Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI: 47.27 +0.79 +1.70%) reported a slight dip in the number of rigs searching for oil and gas in the U.S., as producers restricted their drilling activities in response to the current supply overhang in the natural gas market. The number of uni...

The suggestion from two key senators that climate change and energy legislation could allow expanded oil and gas drilling has failed to charm the fossil fuel industry that opposed the House bill.The biggest oil and gas companies and their trade group said they will have to hear a lot more than wh...

New York recently released a long-awaited review of how the drilling of thousands of gas wells into the Marcellus Shale might affect our state and our future. The 800-page draft environmental impact statement discusses threats to everything from the water you drink and the air you breathe to the ...

When “Split Estate,” a new documentary on the effects or oil and gas drilling on the lives and property of homeowners, farmers and ranchers who do not own their mineral rights, was previewed in Glenwood Springs, a representative of EnCana Oil & Gas complained that the material was...

The city of Midland’s proposed oil and gas drilling ordinance Tuesday stirred up vociferous opposition from industry representatives who said they disliked the 80-acre well spacings, half mile extraterritorial jurisdiction past the city limits and the extra costs it would impose.Realtors, h...