Swift Energy Co., Houston, will change its name to SilverBow Resources Inc., effective May 5, and double its capital budget for 2017 as it expands drilling in the Eagle Ford shale of South Texas. Source: News

The GPA Midstream Association asked the US Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposal to add natural gas processing plants to its Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). Source: News

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Calgary, reported first-quarter net earnings of $245 million compared with a loss of $105 million in the same quarter last year. Source: News

Wood Mackenzie Ltd. forecast that production from the seven most advanced developments in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta play—covering only 8% of play acreage—will reach 77,000 boe/d during 2017 and 113,000 by 2018, which would double 2016 levels. Source: News

The Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission ordered oil and gas operators in the state to inspect their flowlines and verify that any not in use are fully abandoned by May 30. The May 2 order also directed operators to document the location and integrity of any existing flowline within 1,000 ft of a building […]

A coalition of 11 organizations urged members of the US Senate to pass a Congressional Review Act resolution that would revoke the US Bureau of Land Management’s methane emissions limits rule before May 11. “Forcing this one-size-fits-all regulation on an industry that is already substantially reducing methane emissions is unnecessary and costly,” they said in […]