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• 09/08/2011 -- China: Dart has four rigs at Xinjiang CBM project
  Dart Energy Ltd., Brisbane, has mobilized four rigs to the 3,979 sq km Dajing coalbed methane production sharing contract area in northwest China and has spudded the first two exploratory wells.
• 09/07/2011 -- Shell to explore for unconventional natural gas in Ukraine
  Royal Dutch Shell PLC plans to invest as much as $800 million in exploring for unconventional natural gas in Ukraine, according to government officials who signed a recent cooperative agreement with Shell.
• 09/07/2011 -- Hess, CONSOL ink Ohio Utica shale venture
  CONSOL Energy Inc., Pittsburgh, will take Hess Corp., New York, as a partner in its eastern Ohio Utica shale land position for $593 million.
• 09/07/2011 -- Encana to sell Piceance basin midstream natural gas assets
  Encana Corp. unit Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. agreed to sell a portion of its Piceance natural gas midstream assets in Colorado to a private midstream company.
• 09/07/2011 -- Quebec Macasty shale characteristics encouraging
  Junex, Quebec City, Que., has completed an airborne gravity survey over Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to identify major structural elements in connection with its exploratory play for oil in the Ordovician Macasty shale, stratigraphic equivalent of the Utica shale in the St. Lawrence Lowlands.
• 09/07/2011 -- API-backed study eyes regulatory impacts on energy, job growth
  US government policies that encourage development of new and existing oil and gas resources could, by 2030, increase production by more than 10 million b/d of oil equivalent, support 1.4 million more jobs, and raise another $803 billion of government revenue, a study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute concluded.
• 09/06/2011 -- US Chamber urges Congress, Obama to take positive energy steps
  US Chamber of Commerce Pres. Thomas J. Donahue urged Congress and US President Barack Obama to open more offshore areas to oil and gas leasing and development, expand access to onshore federal lands, promote more US natural gas development, and approve the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada as one of six immediate actions to create more US jobs.
• 09/06/2011 -- Enterprise, Enbridge, Anadarko plan Texas Express NGL pipeline
  Enterprise Products Partners LP, Enbridge Energy Partners LP, and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. have agreed to design and build an 850-mile natural gas liquids pipeline that extends from Skellytown, Tex., to fractionation and storage facilities in Mont Belvieu, Tex.
• 09/02/2011 -- Williams gets FERC approval for Transco natural gas pipeline expansion
  Williams Partners LP received US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for its proposal to expand its Transco natural gas pipeline by 225 MMcfd to serve the Southeast US.
• 09/02/2011 -- After vital moves, US stays on course for overregulation
  Despite welcome moves to corral environmental zealots, the Obama administration remains committed to regulation in general.