Keystone Energy Forum

Pennsylvania's shale drillers are paying slightly more than $200 million this year -- 14 percent more than lawmakers projected -- under the state's new impact fee.

Most of the Marcellus Shale drilling companies have paid what they owe under Pennsylvania's new impact fee for wells.

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey commiserated with Wayne County residents and civic leaders over the inability to access natural gas from Marcellus Shale.

Lawyers representing several state agencies argued in a brief filed Tuesday that appellate judges erred in deciding to overturn a portion of the state's new Marcellus Shale drilling law.

TransCanada has proposed to Nebraska officials a new route for the U.S. segment of its Keystone XL pipeline that avoids the Ogallala Aquifer and the Sandhills region in Nebraska. "The identified route, along with our commitment to implement additional safety requirements above and beyond those required for any other pipeline, ensures the protection of Nebraska's resources," said Russ Girling, TransCanada's president and CEO. TransCanada submitted the revised route plan to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality.

Banks are trying to determine how to assess both the positive and negative impacts of the Marcellus Shale boom.

Even with much of the Gulf of Mexico's energy production shut down as Hurricane Isaac approached the region earlier this week, the natural-gas market barely blinked -- and that’s exactly what analysts said would happen.

When the counties receive the first payments in December, the money will be a needed boost to begin fixing bridges that have been deteriorating - and other critical services.

How do users of alternatively powered vehicles pay road-use taxes equivalent to the state and federal gasoline taxes the rest of us pay at the pump?

Shell Oil Co. officials are working to make inroads with the community that may host their lucrative ethane cracker plant, but note that hurdles still remain before the Beaver County site may get their final stamp of approval.