Alex Steis

Seeking to shore up the United States’s ability to protect against a cyber attack on government, industry or energy infrastructure, Bechtel on Monday unveiled a program with two U.S. national security laboratories to fund multiyear positions for early-career professionals in critical cybersecurity fields.

With the July natural gas bidweek over and trading of the August futures contract in full swing, natural gas prices seem to be picking back up — at least at points near major demand centers such Texas Eastern M-3, and Transco Zone 6 NY. All of this is occurring despite the current onslaught of triple-digit gas storage injections.

With the July natural gas bidweek over and trading of the August futures contract in full swing, natural gas prices seem to be picking back up — at least at points near major demand centers such Texas Eastern M-3, and Transco Zone 6 NY. All of this is occurring despite the current onslaught of triple-digit gas storage injections.

With the country’s natural gas storage network refilling faster than expected and analysts calling for a mild summer to further tamp down demand for the resource from the power generation sector, Northeast natural gas prices in the forward market have been making their way lower in recent weeks.

As the development of unconventional oil and gas plays continues to ramp up across North America, the race to supply the resources necessary for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is heating up. In addition to water supplies, the hunt for sand, with certain properties that make it ideal for fracking, is reaching far and wide.

The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) late last week gave regulatory approval to repower the coal-fired Dunkirk power plant with natural gas, a move that saves the plant from its scheduled mothballing while improving the reliability of the electric system and providing economic benefits to Western New York.

Looking to beef up its East Texas acreage position in order to roll out a multi-rig drilling program, Energy & Exploration Partners Inc. (ENXP) reported Monday that it is acquiring 18,300 net acres in Houston and Madison counties from TreadStone Energy Partners LLC for approximately $715 million.

Natural gas utilities in the United States have already taken steps to reduce emissions from their systems through upgrades and modernization, but more can be done, according to American Gas Association (AGA) Chairman Gregg Kantor, who is also CEO of NW Natural.

One week after the U.S. Senate confirmed the Obama administration’s appointment of Timothy Massad as the new chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), he got down to business on Wednesday by naming Aitan Goelman as the agency’s director of the Division of Enforcement.