ENERGY LAW GUIDE: Natural Gas Exploration

* The Early Days of Regulation
* The Beginnings of Federal Regulatory Involvement
* The Natural Gas Act of 1938
* The Phillips Decision - Wellhead Price Regulation
* The Effects of Wellhead Price Control - 1958-1978
* The Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978
* The Move towards Deregulation
* FERC Order No. 436
* The Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act of 1989
* FERC Order No. 636

* Overview of Current Regulation
* Regulation of Distribution
* FERC - Regulation of Interstate Pipelines
* FERC Processes
* Some Important FERC Regulations and Orders

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, is an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. FERC also reviews proposals to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and interstate natural gas pipelines as well as licensing hydropower projects

Some matters before the Commission are set for hearing before Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) and FERC Trial Staff. The ALJ will issue an Initial Decision and the Commission will issue a final order for the proceeding. Appeals of Commission orders and regulations are heard in Federal Courts. FERC also facilitates settlements as an alternative to litigation.

Top-Down, Intelligent Reservoir Modeling is a newly introduced, peer-reviewed, reservoir modeling technology that requires only production rate data to start the analysis.

Technique for Production data Analysis

A full-field, cohesive model of fluid flow in the
hydrocarbon reservoir, developed based on
production behavior of multiple wells and by
integrating reservoir engineering principles
with state-of-the-art in Artificial Intelligence
and Data Mining (AI&DM)

One of the biggest breakthroughs in natural gas exploration has come through the use of basic seismology. Seismology refers to the study of how energy, in the form of seismic waves, moves through the earth's crust and interacts differently with various types of underground formations

Founded in 1917, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists is currently the world's largest professional geological society.

the largest earth science library in the world!

Primer on Shale gas exploration & development

How much water is used in Marcellus deep shale
gas development?

New research results surprise everyone on the potential of this well-known Devonian black shale.

Princeton Hydro is proud to present Emerging Issues: topics regarding relevant environmental issues. Some papers may be released in volumes so please check in for future releases.

This is a very informative website that includes job opportunities, etc.

Welcome to the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s (MSC) website. You’ll find information on the Marcellus Shale formation, how we extract the natural gas and protect the environment, why we value the communities where we do business, and the opportunities that the Commonwealth and its residents can realize in the coming years and decades through natural gas exploration and production.

MarcellusProtest.org is an information clearing house about Marcellus Shale gas drilling and activism and related issues

The Center for Healthy Environments and Communities (CHEC) of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health has been funded to assess the potential environmental & public health impacts of gas extraction activities in the Marcellus Shale formation.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is not involved in regulating lease agreements between mineral property owners and producers, except that minimum royalty payment is prescribed by law

at EQT, it isn’t enough to find and extract natural gas. EQT Energy, which is part of the Midstream segment, works to optimize the portfolio of EQT Corporation's assets from physical production through gathering assets and contractual pipeline assets.

Marcellus drilling in West Virginia

Bureau of Business and Economic Research
College of Business and Economics
West Virginia University

This bill contains a comprehensive, sector-based approach to enhancing energy security, spurring the development and deployment of clean energy technologies, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the past nine months, The Times reviewed more than 30,000 pages of documents obtained through open records requests of state and federal agencies and by visiting various regional offices that oversee drilling in Pennsylvania.

An interactive map showing completed and permitted marcellus wells in West Virginia.

Guidelines for the management of Naturally Occurring
Radioactive Material (NORM) in the oil & gas industry

July 2011 report sponsored by the Marcellus Shale Coalition

Booms and Busts: The Impact of West Virginia's Energy Economy

Halliburton pioneered fracturing technology in the mid-1940s, and has always supported and complied with state and federal requirements promoting disclosure of our additives. Much of this information has been available to the public for quite a while – although it tends to be hard to find and even tougher to understand. This site aims to change that: by naming the additives in our fracturing solutions, listing the constituents, and explaining some of their other, more common household and indu

Today, nearly nine out of 10 onshore wells – natural gas and oil – require fracture stimulation to remain or become viable.

Welcome to FracFocus, the hydraulic fracturing chemical registry website. This website is a joint project of the Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.

EPA selects Colorado, North Dakota sites as case study locations for national hydraulic fracturing study

Forbes is a leading source for reliable news and updated analysis on Energy

Complaint filed in Monongalia Circuit Court

The Committee on Energy and Commerce, the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, remains today as the body's principal guide in the promotion of commerce, public health, energy and technology.

Natural gas producers are moving into communities across the nation using a new gas drilling method in shale formations.