The court held that a decision finding an oil and gas lease to be abandoned pursuant to the equitable doctrine of abandonment was improper where the lease provided remedies for the allegedly wrongful conduct of the lessee.

The joint resolution, if enacted into law, would reinstate Obama administration rules regulating the methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industrial sector, including the production, processing, transmission and storage segments.

Senate Republicans have told Governor Tom Wolf they will block appointments to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission unless he ends his unilateral effort to join a multistate climate initiative to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Since the Marcellus Shale play started 10-plus years ago, we have been using the terms unconventional and conventional incorrectly. And “we” includes the state, the public, the press and much of our own industry.

These new and proposed regulatory changes are likely to significantly affect project design and construction in Pennsylvania.

The Delaware River Basin Commission has voted to ban high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the four-state Delaware River watershed. The action itself comes as no real surprise, only that it took so long to finalize.

Operators of unconventional wells may wish to closely monitor these regulatory changes to determine the impact on their operations.