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Barring extreme weather this summer, natural gas prices aren’t likely to vary too much from their current trading range, said FERC staffer Eric Primosch of the Commission’s Office of Enforcement (OE).

Determining whether Lower 48 state natural gas onshore production is falling is proving to be a difficult task because of the variable winter, but the aggregate amount of production curtailments from well freeze-offs “point to peak supply losses of as much as 1.8 Bcf/d,” according to Barclays Capital.

In some cases operators just aren’t drilling and in others they are leaving the state for greener pastures as 2012 continued to be another year for declining natural gas production in Northwest New Mexico’s San Juan Basin, according to the latest state statistics that showed the region produced 780 Bcf last year.

In some cases operators just aren’t drilling and in others they are leaving the state for greener pastures as 2012 continued to be another year for declining natural gas production in Northwest New Mexico’s San Juan Basin, according to the latest state statistics that showed the region produced 780 Bcf last year.

The Marcellus and Utica shales aren’t drawing near the attention they have been, according to a review of 4Q2012 mergers and transactions (M&A) in the United States by PwC US.

Energy commodity prices aren’t cooperating in any arena at the moment, but ConocoPhillips is confident that diverting its natural gas rigs to more liquids targets in North America is the right path forward, CEO Ryan Lance said Wednesday.

Population centers in the East aren’t likely to feel the worst of this summer’s heat, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based Weather Services International (WSI), who said in a three-month forecast issued last week that they expect most of the season’s significant temperatures to be felt in the Plains and Rockies.

Population centers in the East aren’t likely to feel the worst of this summer’s heat, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based Weather Services International (WSI), who said in their three-month forecast that they expect most of the season’s significant heat to be felt in the Plains and Rockies.

Wyoming’s Office of State Lands and Investments has tightened the limits to extend coalbed methane (CBM) leases that aren’t held by production in the midst of growing requests because of sagging natural gas prices.