Charlie Passut

American Midstream Partners LP said it has started decommissioning its Midla pipeline system in Louisiana and Mississippi after customers broke off negotiations over repairs to the 88-year-old system and the company received no response to an open season at the end of last year.

Resolute Energy Corp. said its first horizontal wells targeting the Delaware Basin and part of the Powder River Basin have exceeded its expectations, and the company plans to devote most of its 2014 budget to capital expenditures (capex) in the two plays.

Crowley Maritime Corp. said Wednesday a subsidiary has been awarded a multi-year contract to supply U.S.-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Puerto Rico (PR) to its first industrial customer, Coca-Cola bottlers.

Production from five of the top six major tight/shale oil and natural gas regions in the United States are projected to increase over the next year, reaching totals comparable to nations on the world stage, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin will likely call a special session of the state legislature to introduce a bill regulating the disposal of drill cuttings and associated drilling waste into commercial landfills, after lawmakers failed to passed the measure before adjourning on Saturday.

In the wake of the political crisis in Ukraine, the ambassadors of four central European countries to the United States are urging Congress to expedite liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to its allies on the continent, in hopes of reducing their dependence on Russia for natural gas.

The United States is squandering a rare opportunity to switch cars and light trucks to run on natural gas, and should back away from plans to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe and Asia, according to a senior adviser to the United States Energy Security Council.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and two state officials over the ongoing regulatory delay for considering high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) in the Empire State.

The top three trade groups that represent the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania filed a petition with the state’s Commonwealth Court on Wednesday, asking that they be allowed to intervene in the ongoing legal battle over Act 13, the state’s omnibus Marcellus Shale law.