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Pennsylvania may be water-rich, but factors like permitting and geography make water increasingly difficult to come by for drilling operations, several Marcellus Shale players told a Pittsburgh-area audience on Wednesday.

Kern River, which had noted low linepack in a bulletin board posting Monday morning, said its system lost an additional 50,000 Dth during that gas day. That prompted the pipeline to bar any shipper drafting in a critical notice Tuesday. Kern River said it will curtail physical flows if necessary and asked customers with due-pipe imbalances to schedule payback. In response to Kern River’s situation, Las Vegas-based Southwest Gas issued a Hold Burn to Scheduled Quantities notice effective Monday until further notice.

The shale revolution has demolished market assumptions about natural gas and instituted a new world order, which eventually could allow the “Prince of Hydrocarbons” to inherit the kingdom, according to a new report.

The shale revolution has demolished market assumptions about natural gas and instituted a new world order, which eventually could allow the “Prince of Hydrocarbons” to inherit the kingdom, according to a report unveiled Wednesday.

The drilling moratorium may have been lifted in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to allow operators to get back to work, but in reality, that’s hardly the case, Chevron Corp. CEO John Watson said on Friday.

The drilling moratorium may have been lifted in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to allow operators to get back to work, but in reality, that’s hardly the case, Chevron Corp. CEO John Watson said on Friday.

Just days after leaving office, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has signed on for two new positions that could allow him to keep a hand at the political table and a presence in the public forum.

Former natural gas company executive and Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sheffield Nelson has said he may push to allow the state’s voters to decide next year whether the severance tax on natural gas production should be raised to 7%.

Williams said Tuesday it had reduced the pressure in its leaking storage cavern in Eminence, MS, to allow gas to be flared rather than vented into the atmosphere. The facility serves Williams’ Transco pipeline.