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

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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.

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Haynesville shale gas production is increasing again; Will Haynesville-related litigation increase again, too?

The Energy Law

In August 2018, dry natural gas production from the Haynesville shale averaged 6.774 billion cubic feet per day, which is the highest daily Haynesville production average since September 2012 when production averaged 6.962 billion cubic feet per day. August 2018 was not an anomaly. El Paso E & P Co. ,

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New Air Standards for Oil & Gas Industry May Force HAP Area Sources into Major Source Status

The Energy Law

Moreno On August 16, 2012, EPA published a new rule that revises the NESHAP Subpart HH standards for the oil and gas industry. The Final Rule wassigned on April 17, 2012, but publication in the Federal Register did not occur until August 16, 2012, making the rule effective on October 15, 2012. Holden and Carlos J.

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Air Permitting: Sixth Circuit Vacates Single Stationary Source Aggregation Determination for E&P Facilities Due to EPA’s Unreasonable Interpretation of Adjacent

The Energy Law

By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 7, 2012, in a 2-1 decision in Summit Petroleum Corp. The question of what is “contiguous or adjacent” has long been vexing for the exploration and production industry. See, e.g., 40 C.F.R. §§ 51.166(b)(6); 71.2. See Summit Petroleum Corp. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 09-4348, slip op.

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Trans Energy Settlement Shows Need for E&P Wetlands Compliance Strategy

The Energy Law

The United States and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection alleged that the company impounded streams and discharged dirt, sand, rocks and other materials into streams and wetlands without permits to construct well pads, pipeline stream crossings, surface impoundments, and other structures relating to natural gas extraction.

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EPA and BSEE Team Up to Resolve Offshore Environmental Violations

The Energy Law

The Violation In March 2012, BSEE conducted an inspection of ATP’s floating production platform facility, known as the ATP Innovator, while it was moored to the sea floor about 45 nautical miles offshore of southeastern Louisiana (about 125 miles south of New Orleans) and engaged in the production of oil and natural gas.