U.S. natural gas output in the Lower 48 states rose 0.9% in October to 74.6 billion cubic feet per day, fractionally below the high of August 2013, government data released Tuesday show. The rise of 0.65 bcf/day came against a September level that was revised up modestly to 73.95 bcf/day, the Energy Information Administration said. Output rose 2% from a year earlier and was just shy of the record level of 74.68 bcf/day for August 2013, which EIA revised up Tuesday, by 0.26% from last month’s report. Much of the rise came from the Marcellus shale area of West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where many operators reported new wells had come on stream, the EIA said. The EIA said output from so-called other states, or those outside the traditional producing areas of Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming and the Gulf of Mexico, rose by […]