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• 09/01/2011 -- Ohio: Utica shale spec 3D seismic shoot set in 2012
  TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. has let a contract for the acquisition of 307 sq miles of multiclient 3D seismic in the Utica shale play in the Appalachian basin in northeastern Ohio.
• 08/31/2011 -- Epsilon, partners to build Marcellus shale gas gathering system
  Epsilon Energy Ltd. and its Marcellus shale partners, Chesapeake Energy Corp. and Statoil USA Onshore Properties Inc., are to construct a 400-MMcfd natural gas gathering system to service both the three-party farmout area they share and additional producers.
• 08/31/2011 -- Louisiana official reports activity on third expansive play
  Oil and natural gas producers have begun work on developing a third expansive play in Louisiana, giving the state one proved and producing formation and two that are being watched closely, according to Scott Angelle, secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Natural Resources.
• 08/31/2011 -- ExxonMobil takes Argentina shale farmout
  ExxonMobil Exploration Argentina SRL and a unit of Americas Petrogas Inc., Calgary, will explore and possibly exploit the Canadian company’s 163,500-acre Los Toldos blocks in the western Neuquen basin of Argentina for oil and gas in shales.
• 08/30/2011 -- Oil sands crude will reach US without Keystone XL pipeline, consultant says
  EnSys Energy & Systems Inc. and Navigistics Consulting concluded in a report issued as part of the US Department of State’s final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline that it is “almost impossible…to conceive of a situation” wherein the anticipated 1.4 million b/d growth in Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin crude could not be shipped to the US, even if Keystone XL is not approved.
• 08/30/2011 -- Bulgaria Jurassic Etropole shale gas drilling set
  LNG Energy Ltd., Vancouver, BC, entered into a term sheet with a unit of TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd., Dallas, to earn a 50% interest in a future shale gas production concession in northwestern Bulgaria.
• 08/29/2011 -- Australia: Beach sees multiple Nappamerri plays
  Beach Energy Ltd., Adelaide, said it believes that in addition to substantial shale gas potential the Cooper basin in Australia also contains an unconventional basin-centered gas play.
• 08/29/2011 -- Costs, labor top list of oil sands risks
  Cost increases and labor shortages appear atop a list of risks facing producers in the Canadian oil sands, balanced by opportunities that include growing global oil demand and the economic importance of oil sands production to Canada.
• 08/26/2011 -- DOS issues final EIS for proposed Keystone XL pipeline
  The US Department of State issued a final environmental impact statement of the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline. The finding that the project would have limited environmental impacts drew cheers from oil and gas and other business groups, and boos from environmental organizations.
• 08/26/2011 -- Naysayers abuse Marcellus shale resource numbers
  After scientists in the US government increased their estimate of the exploratory potential of natural gas from the Marcellus shale, naysayers called the report a portentous climb-down.