Charlie Passut

FERC gave conditional approval Thursday to a request by Williams’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco) to begin its Mobile Bay South III Expansion Project, which when completed will provide an additional 225,000 Dth/d to markets in Alabama and Florida.

(Editor’s Note: This story is being re-posted with corrections. The original article published April 16, 2014 incorrectly stated that the shareholder meeting was for Spectra Energy Partners LP. NGI regrets the error.)

Staff members of Ohio’s Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) plan to recommend on Friday that the board of directors reduce annual property tax assessments beginning in 2015, on the grounds that the district is bringing in more revenue from oil and gas leases in the Utica Shale.

Despite an increasing number of policies worldwide designed to reduce the effects of climate change, global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) have risen to unprecedented levels and grew faster between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades, according to members of a science panel that works under the United Nations (UN).

Mexico’s proven reserves of oil and natural gas fell 3.1% in 2013, according to data from the nation’s energy ministry. Meanwhile, national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has signed cooperation agreements with France’s Total SA and GDF Suez SA.

The Massachusetts Senate voted unanimously on Thursday in favor of a bill that would force natural gas companies to identify and classify gas leaks, and require them to fix hazardous leaks immediately.

Mountainview Energy Ltd. said its reserves grew significantly at the end of 2013, highlighting the success the company has achieved in its 12 Gage Project targeting the Bakken/Three Forks in North Dakota.

Nirav Shah — commissioner of the New York Department of Health (DOH) and a figure at the center of the debate over whether to allow high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in the state — is planning to resign his post next month for a new job in California.

A Louisiana congressman wants to meet with FERC Acting Chairman Cheryl LaFleur to discuss plans by American Midstream Partners LP to decommission the Midla pipeline, the latest of several lawmakers to voice opposition the shutdown.