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Supporters of natural gas vehicles (NGV) aren’t going after the personal vehicle market, at least not initially, but they see a sizeable market share in just replacing diesel fuel in fleet vehicles and the over-the-road diesel market.

Supporters of natural gas vehicles (NGV) aren’t going after the personal vehicle market, at least not initially, but they see a sizeable market share in just replacing diesel fuel in fleet vehicles and the over-the-road diesel market.

Supporters of natural gas vehicles (NGV) aren’t going after the personal vehicle market, at least not initially, but they see a sizeable market share in just replacing diesel fuel in fleet vehicles and the over-the-road diesel market.

Natural gas prices that some might describe as astronomically low and the unfolding of the North American shale gas story aren’t enough to dissuade the chief executives of at least two Midwestern utilities from their tried-and-true gas procurement strategies.

Natural gas prices that some might describe as astronomically low and the unfolding of the North American shale gas story aren’t enough to dissuade the chief executives of at least two Midwestern utilities from their tried-and-true gas procurement strategies.

Natural gas is going to eclipse coal to become the second biggest fuel source after oil, and even though prices aren’t cooperating, ExxonMobil Corp. has no plans to slow its North American gas projects, an executive said last week.

Capital expenditures (capex) may have been cut and commodity prices aren’t cooperating, but production at some of the largest U.S.-based independents grew in 2Q2009 from the year-ago period and sequentially from the first three months of this year, according to separate analyses.

The odds aren’t in favor of Congress passing broad-based climate change legislation and forwarding it to President Obama this year, an official with ConocoPhillips said Thursday.

It appears the natural gas bulls aren’t even allowed to hold on to a shred of price rebound hope as the recent signs of a firming crude futures market were proved incorrect Tuesday by a more than $4/bbl drop. Faced with the economic recession, plenty of gas and a forecasted warm-up in temperatures, February natural gas futures traded a slim 12.8-cent range before closing at $4.503, up 1.3 cents from Monday’s finish.