Advent

Unlike natural gas, oil can be carried in a bucket — or in a rail car — as is increasingly the case in the Bakken Shale, for instance, where the drill bit has gotten ahead of the pipeline, way ahead of the pipeline, in offering oil producers a route to market.

Calgary-based Encana Corp. and Denver-based Bill Barrett Corp. are stirring up interest in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin, where they are working separately with area drillers to explore in the Mancos Shale.

The expanded use of horizontal drilling and the advent of hydraulic fracturing helped Pennsylvania more than quadruple its natural gas production between 2009 and 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

The expanded use of horizontal drilling and the advent of hydraulic fracturing helped Pennsylvania more than quadruple its natural gas production between 2009 and 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Royal Dutch Shell plc and Ukraine’s state-owned oil company Naftogaz Ukrainy appear poised to clinch a deal to develop and explore shale gas in the eastern European country, with Shell initially investing about $800 million for exploration and production (E&P), according to a top Ukrainian official.

With the advent of the West Coast’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal opening along the Pacific Coast of Baja California, Mexico, later in the second quarter, San Diego-based Sempra Energy confirmed last Wednesday that the expansion of its North Baja natural gas pipeline has been completed. The pipeline now can carry supplies from the Costa Azul LNG terminal to markets in California and Arizona.

With the advent of the West Coast’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal opening along the Pacific Coast of Baja California, Mexico, later in the second quarter, San Diego-based Sempra Energy confirmed Wednesday that the expansion of its North Baja natural gas pipeline has been completed. The pipeline now can carry supplies from the Costa Azul LNG terminal to markets in California and Arizona.

With the advent of the hurricane season, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is seeking to beef up its regulations governing the reporting of damages to interstate natural gas pipelines.

Market price projections and the advent of expanded native generation load have the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) on the prowl for more of its own natural gas supplies, a muni official heading the effort said last week in an interview with NGI.