Thursday, December 26, 2024

Alpha Natural Resources Sells West Virginia Gas Assets

Alpha Natural Resources said it has sold substantially all of the assets of two separate operations, a coal mining complex and a natural gas operation in central West Virginia. Alpha said its New River Energy natural gas operation is being sold to Kentucky- based Kinzer Drilling. The divestiture includes 120 producing natural gas wells in five counties. The Green Valley mining assets in Nicholas and Greenbrier Counties

Attorneys Enter the Energy Sector

From the American Lawyer Jenner & Block, having just recruited Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s energy regulatory co-chair Suedeen Kelly, is building out a new practice group after adding two more lawyers with experience at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The move marks Jenner & Block’s third new practice area in almost as many months, as the firm launched an aerospace