November 2011

30th November 2011

County Water Free of Flacking Fluid

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Jaysson Funkhouser of the U.S. Geologic Survey said Wednesday November 28, 2011 that testing of domestic water wells in the Fayetteville Shale area in Van Buren County is complete, and sampling in Faulkner County will begin the end of this month.

More than 70 wells were sampled in Van Buren County with no indicators found for drilling or fracking fluid, the USGS stated.

In addition, select water samples that were tested for methane gas indicated none was present. Read more »

3rd November 2011

Cheasapeake Enters into Agreement on Marcellus Shale

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Enterprise Products Partners L.P and Chesapeake Energy Corporation today November 2, 2011 announced they have entered into a long-term contract whereby Chesapeake would anchor Enterprise’s proposed long-haul ethane pipeline from the Marcellus and Utica shale regions in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Read more »