Range Resources sells Appalachian assets for $634M

Range Resources recently agreed to sell assets in the Appalachian Basin for $634 million, according to Seeking Alpha. The company will sell a 2% net proportionately reduced overriding royalty interest in 350,000 net surface acres, which produced a combined 1.9 billion net cfe/day in the first quarter, in the southwest Appalachian Basin for $600 million.

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EIA: Crude production inches up in US

In the Energy Information Administration’s newly released Drilling Productivity Report, it projects crude oil production in the U.S.’s most productive unconventional basins in the lower 48 states is projected to rise roughly 0.5% from July to August, according to Kallanish Energy. Overall production is expected to rise 49,000 barrels per day from 8.50 million barrels

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EIA: Natural gas production continues to grow in major US basins

The Energy Information Administration projects natural gas production from the seven most productive basins in the lower 48 states will jump from 81.21 to 81.96 billion cubic feet per day from July to August, according to Kallanish Energy. Of the seven major basins, six are expected to see a month-to-month increase in production. The EIA’s

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Cuadrilla to restart fracking at British site

British shale gas producer Cuadrilla said Thursday it would restart fracking at its Preston New Road site in Britain in the third quarter of 2019, with plans to use a thicker fracking fluid to help reduce earth tremors, Kallanish Energy finds. Operations at the first well at the Preston New road site in Lancashire were

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Pg&e didn’t repair lines it knew could cause wildfires: report

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (Pg&e) knew power lines in Northern California could fail and cause wildfires, but the company delayed repairs for years before a 2018 blaze that killed 85 people, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. The utility identified parts that needed repair on its transmission lines to prevent “structure failure resulting (in) conductor

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Six minutes alter direction of U.S.’s largest gas producer

It wasn’t hard to figure out the backers of the two sides in the proxy battle between independent producer EQT and dissidents known as the Rice Team Wednesday morning, at the long-awaited annual meeting. Kallanish Energy was on hand for the meeting. Body language and facial expressions for status quo EQT, represented by CEO Rob

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Report: Pa. produced more natural gas in 2018 than ever before

Last year Pennsylvania produced the largest volume of natural gas it’s ever produced in a single year, according to the 2018 Oil and Gas Annual Report released July 10 by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Unconventional wells produced 6.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which was an increase of .8 trillion cubic feet over

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Power from natgas to rise in 2019, slip in 2020: Steo

The share of U.S. total utility-scale electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 35% in 2018, to 38% in 2019, and then decline slightly in 2020, according to the latest Steo, Short-Term Energy Outlook, produced by the Energy Information Administration. EIA/Steo forecasts the share of U.S. generation from coal will average 24%

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US dry gas production to set another record: Steo

U.S. dry natural gas production will average 91.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2019, up 8.0 Bcf/d from the previous record set in 2018, the Energy Information Administration projects in the just-released July Short-Term Energy Outlook (Steo), Kallanish Energy reports. EIA/Steo expects annual average U.S. natural gas production will rise by 1.4 Bcf/d

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Wti crude climbs $1/Bbl in 2020: Steo

West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices will average $62 a barrel in the second half of 2019, and $63/Bbl in 2020, the Energy Information Administration projects in the just-released Short-Term Energy Outlook (Steo), Kallanish Energy reports. EIA’s forecast WTI price of $63/Bbl for December 2019, should be considered in the context of Nymex WTI futures and options

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What’s up with drilled but uncompleted wells?

There are plenty of reasons a shale well may be drilled, but not completed and producing, according to Farm and Dairy. The well’s operator could be waiting for a pipeline to be connected, a crew to complete it or better markets. Maybe the well was drilled to hold a lease and never put into production.

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Mahoning County gains rights to Utica Shale deposits

Under a new lease agreement with Ohio Valley Energy, Mahoning County will now have rights to any Utica Shale deposits underneath county-owned land in Canfield, according to The Youngstown Vindicator. The original lease agreement for the county land, signed in 1984, will expire this month. The new agreement with Ohio Valley Energy extends the lease

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Delek says gas exports to Egypt by year’s end

Israel’s Delek Drilling said it has completed testing of a subsea natural gas pipeline to Egypt, but commercial sales by June 30 did not occur as originally projected, Kallanish Energy understands. Delek and its partner, the U.S.’s Noble Energy, signed a deal early in 2018 to export $15 billion in natural gas from Israeli offshore gas fields

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Working gas injected falls under 100 Bcf 2nd straight week

The volume of working natural gas injected in the most recent weekly report by the Energy Information Administration was under 100 billion cubic feet for the second straight week, Kallanish Energy reports. For the week ended June 28, 89 Bcf of working gas was injected underground, bringing total working gas stored to 2.39 trillion cubic

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Working-rig total slips slightly

The number of rigs working onshore in the Lower 48 U.S. states dipped slightly last week, the fourth week in the last five where the working-rig total has fallen, data from Baker Hughes, a GE company, reveals. For the five-day period ended July 3 (two days shorter than normal due to the Fourth of July

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