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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) called on Pennsylvania House
Republican leaders to consider imposing a severance tax on
unconventional natural gas production. “It is well past time for [them]
to allow a vote on a commonsense severance tax that will make oil and
gas companies finally pay their fair share,” he said on Oct. 24.

Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to increase 81,000 b/d month-over-month in November to 6.12 million b/d, the US Energy Information Administration said in its monthly Drilling Productivity Report.

Williams Partners LP has agreed to provide natural gas processing, fractionation, and liquids handling services in Southwestern Energy Co.’s
wet gas acreage in the Marcellus and Upper Devonian shale along with
gas gathering services in the Houston operator’s South Utica dry gas
acreage.

The US drilling rig count fell 4 units to 936 during the week ended Oct. 6, according to Baker Hughes data.

Crude oil output from the seven major US onshore producing regions is
forecast to increase 79,000 b/d month-over-month in October to 6.083
million b/d, the US Energy Information Administration said in its latest
monthly Drilling Productivity Report.

Williams Partners LP
reported that construction has begun in Pennsylvania on the greenfield
portion of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project, an expansion of the existing Transco natural gas pipeline that will connect Marcellus supplies with the Mid-…

The US rig count during the week ended Sept. 15 recorded its largest decline since the end of the drilling dive of late-2014 to mid-2016.

Crude oil production from the seven major US onshore producing regions is forecast to increase 117,000 b/d month-over-month in September to 6.149 million b/d, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s latest Drilling Productivity Report.

 

Major US operators entered 2017 with increased capital budgets and plans to ramp up drilling in the Lower 48’s most promising regions, namely the Permian basin and Sooner Trend Anadarko basin Canadian and Kingfisher counties (STACK) play.

Energy and manufacturing association officials are urging Pennsylvania’s
House of Representatives to reject a tax package that includes both a
severance and use tax on natural gas that the state’s Senate narrowly
approved 2 weeks ago.