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U.S. Shale Revolution Slows Down: The Start of a Decline?

Energy Central

oil production had been steadily falling for decades, while natural gas output had plateaued. Beginning in 2006, U.S. natural gas production surged by an impressive. Before the transformative impact of the shale boom, U.S. The Shale Boom’s Impact on U.S.

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Expand Energy: From Chesapeake’s Fall to America’s Top Natural Gas Producer

Rextag

Before it was Expand Energy, the largest natural gas-weighted exploration and production company in the U.S., billion merger with Southwestern Energy, Expand Energy has achieved a new milestone: its the largest natural gas producer in the U.S., He later became CEO of Mach Natural Resources. With its recent $7.4

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D.C. Circuit rejects FERC order

The Energy Law

In 1988, FERC, pursuant to the Natural Gas Act of 1938, issued Standards of Conduct to regulate natural gas pipelines’ interactions with their marketing affiliates. In National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. 2006), , the D.C. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , 468 F.3d 3d 831 (D.C.

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MMS Proposes Royalty Relief Amendments

The Energy Law

The proposed rule extends deep gas royalty relief to GOM leases in 400 meters of water (up from the current limit of 200 meters), and would increase the royalty suspension volume to 35 Bcf for qualifying ultra-deep wells at least 20,000 feet total vertical depth subsea in less than 400 meters of water. MMBtu expressed in 2006 dollars.

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Fifth Circuit Recognizes Gas Purchaser’s Right to Cancel Contract Due to Title Dispute

The Energy Law

12, 2009), a panel of the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard an action arising from a contract to supply natural gas condensate in south Texas. In 2006, Flint Hills received information that PMI/Pemex had been experiencing thefts of condensate.