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...shale fields in West Virginia to other parts of the state....
...And in January, it bought Chief Oil & Gas, a gas operator in north-eastern Pennsylvania’s section of the prolific Marcellus shale field....
...Europe is desperate for new natural gas sources as the Kremlin squeezes deliveries from Russian fields. But a US promise to plug the supply gap is threatening a domestic backlash....
...shale field....
...Carbon Tracker picked out several megaprojects as examples, including ExxonMobil and Shell’s $6.7bn Bosi field development in Nigeria that isn’t expected to deliver oil until 2029....
...As the diplomats were shuttled between fields scattered with bales of hay and shining tractors, EQT talked up its measures to clamp down on leaks and clean up the production process....
...In the 1920s and 1930s this was created by giant new Texas fields that were overrun and over-drilled by independents....
...The combination brings together Cimarex’s oil assets in the prolific Permian shale field of West Texas and New Mexico, and Cabot’s acreage in north-east Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, the biggest US gasfield...
...A period of hefty pipeline construction, as developers moved to add new infrastructure to carry hydrocarbons out of areas like the gas-rich Marcellus and Utica shales, is petering out....
...EQT Corporation, the US’s largest natural gas producer, said it was buying privately owned Alta Resources for $2.9bn, as it continues to stitch together a dominant position in the Marcellus’ gas-rich fields...
...Investors and analysts like what they see: a company shorn of its crippling debts that can now focus on high-quality gasfields in the Marcellus (US north-east) and Haynesville (Texas/Louisiana) shales....
...The Dominion pipeline package was made even more valuable by the abandonment of the Atlantic Coast project, which, arguably, would have competed for gas production from the Marcellus fields....
...He built the Theatre of Marcellus, a new Senate House and Rome’s first baths. “I found Rome a city of bricks,” Augustus would boast, “and left it a city of marble.”...
...Early maps show the farmland and orchards of the medieval Priory of St Mary Spital from which the place takes its name, as the hospital fields became ‘‘spital fields”....
...“There’s an arrogance there, that their plan is the only plan,” says David Spigelmyer, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a gas industry group in Pennsylvania....
...Chevron has nearly 900,000 net acres across the region’s Marcellus and Utica shale fields; its writedown highlights the stress spreading beneath the booming region, less famous but no less consequential...
...Lecce wasn’t entirely out of left field: Chiuri’s father is from Tricase, a town in Puglia’s Salento region; she herself has a house there....
...The US became the world’s largest gas producer after fracking revived old shale fields. But opponents have slowed new pipelines in the north-east....
...“We’re taking shale gas from the Marcellus and Utica fields [in north-east US],” says Hilary Mercer, the executive in charge of the development....
...The ban was lifted in late-2015, however, and midstream energy built more pipeline capacity from inland shale fields to the US Gulf of Mexico coast....
...The fund has already invested in a gas-gathering system in the Utica and Marcellus shale fields in the Midwestern US, plus a gas-storage facility in Italy....
...Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company that will be Shell’s partner in some of the country’s vast offshore fields, is mired in a corruption scandal....
...It has agreed a deal with Southwestern Energy, another US gas producer, to sell drilling rights on 413,000 acres of land in the Marcellus and Utica shales of Pennsylvania and West Virginia....
...However, observers have pointed to recovery rates from shale fields in US fields being a small fraction of their total potential – often in the low single figures....
...Shares in the company rose 10 per cent to $20.29 on the news of the $1bn buyback after it closed the sale of oil and gas assets in the Marcellus and Utica shale fields to Southwestern Energy for just under...
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