Analysts

The Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) has awarded a Pennsylvania-based environmental consulting firm with a contract to coordinate and oversee a wide-ranging study for the analysis of methane in groundwater samples.

Mild summer temperatures led Stern Agee analysts to reset their U.S. natural gas price forecast for 4Q2014, but they remain bullish for the winter storage season.

September natural gas is expected to open 6 cents higher Thursday morning at $3.88 as more distant weather forecasts turned warmer and traders prepared to deal with the uncertainty of the release of government storage data. Overnight oil markets fell.

Analysts at U.S. Capital Advisors LLC (USCA) said utility stocks may have upside potential in the near future as the shale revolution continues, with more customers converting to natural gas, new construction rates returning to normal and the nation continuing its recovery from the 2008 recession.

A joint industry program is bringing together FMC Technologies Inc. and some of the biggest Gulf of Mexico (GOM) producers to develop standardized subsea production equipment for deepwater reservoirs.

The U.S. natural gas and oil industry should see higher and more sustainable growth over the coming decade as production growth and efficiency improvements create a paradigm shift, Raymond James & Associates Inc. analysts said Monday.

July natural gas is set to open unchanged Tuesday morning at $4.45 as traders sense at least a temporary end to speculative selling and weather forecasts turn slightly warmer. Overnight oil markets firmed.

Global exploration and production (E&P) spending in 2014 should increase for the fifth year in a row, with the largest gains again in North America (NAM), a Barclays Capital annual survey has determined.

Range Resources Corp. and EQT Corp., two of the Appalachian Basin’s leading operators, announced a rare asset exchange late Wednesday that finds EQT Corp. entering the Permian Basin and Range blocking up its acreage in the Nora Field of western Virginia.