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39 New Shale Well Permits Reported for PA-OH-WV Aug 24 – 30
The Marcellus/Utica region received 39 new drilling permits last week, August 24 – 30, up significantly from the 19 permits issued two weeks ago. Pennsylvania finally bounced back, issuing the vast majority of the new permits, with 25. Ohio issued 8 permits. And West Virginia issued 6 new permits. The drillers who received new permits were: Antero Resources, Campbell Oil & Gas, CNX Resources, EOG Resources, EQT, Expand Energy, Infinity Natural Resources, PennEnergy Resources, and Repsol Oil & Gas. Read More “39 New Shale Well Permits Reported for PA-OH-WV Aug 24 – 30”
The highly functional and responsible Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), unlike its dysfunctional and irresponsible counterpart, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), continues to support the shale energy industry by approving water withdrawals and consumptive use requests for responsible, safe shale drilling. The SRBC published a notice in the August 22nd Pennsylvania Bulletin that the SRBC approved and/or renewed 35 general water use permits in July for individual shale gas well drilling pads in Bradford, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Lycoming, Susquehanna, Tioga, and Wyoming counties. 
Yesterday, March 10, 2026, Repsol held its Capital Markets Day at its headquarters in Madrid, Spain, where the company unveiled its new Strategic Plan for 2026–2028. Repsol is leaning into its U.S. natural gas assets, even as its total company-wide spending is slowing. Repsol reiterated that the United States is a “core country” for its Upstream (Exploration and Production) business. Repsol is specifically “high-grading” its portfolio to focus on high-value areas like the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas. 
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Repsol S.A. is a Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical company based in Madrid. It is engaged in worldwide upstream and downstream activities. In the 2022 Forbes Global 2000, Repsol was ranked as the 320th-largest public company in the world. As of 2022, it has 24,000 employees worldwide. Repsol, with shares traded on the Spanish Stock Exchange, has major assets around the world. It also has approximately 214,000 net acres of leased land (with wells) in the Marcellus Shale, primarily located in northeastern Pennsylvania, specifically in Bradford, Susquehanna, and Tioga counties. Repsol is considering a “reverse merger” of its upstream assets (worth $19 billion) with APA (formerly Apache, a Permian oil driller), according to super-secret sources whispering to Bloomberg. 
The highly functional and responsible Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), unlike its highly dysfunctional and irresponsible counterpart, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), continues to support the shale energy industry by approving water withdrawals and consumptive use requests for responsible and safe shale drilling. The SRBC published a notice in the October 11 Pennsylvania Bulletin that the commission voted to approve 11 water withdrawal requests related to shale gas development and two for gas-fired power plants.