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Attempting to work around an onshore processing plant outage that barred offshore receipts, Destin said Thursday it had completed operational changes on the Main Pass 260 platform to facilitate gas movement into Viosca Knoll Gathering System. But due to current operating conditions, Destin can only provide services there for its FT shippers.

Wrapping up a busy Tuesday of transactions with an overarching theme of cooperation on different continents, an ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary has entered a farm-out agreement with a subsidiary of Canada-based Americas Petrogas for the exploration and potential exploitation of shale in Americas Petrogas’s Los Toldos blocks (163,500 gross acres) located in Neuquen, Argentina.

In an effort to ensure that air around Marcellus and Utica shale production sites is safe and to provide the shale industry “with the most efficient option to get operations up and running,” the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) said it is creating a new general permit.

Natural gas as a transportation fuel has zoomed around the map of North America in August, capitalizing on a continuing price advantage at the pump even with recent falling gasoline prices. Separately, last Thursday, a major U.S. provider of gas transportation fuel and fueling infrastructure received a $150 million investment from three global private investment firms.

A West Virginia man suing two energy companies in the Marcellus Shale wants his case returned to circuit court.

Natural gas as a transportation fuel has zoomed around the map of North America in August, capitalizing on a continuing price advantage at the pump even with recent falling gasoline prices.

Hundreds of workers with Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc. (Con Ed) and other companies are reportedly working around the clock to restore natural gas service to approximately 4,300 customers in New York City’s Upper Manhattan.

The administration of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is drafting legislation for an impact fee on natural gas drillers in the state, according to the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. Over the past week Corbett said he could support a fee for mitigating local impacts and some statewide issues, but not for unrestricted revenue.

June’s flood in and around the Bakken Shale play in North Dakota has been a setback for all the producers in the area, but it may not be as devastating as earlier reports indicated, MDU Resources Group Inc. senior executives said Tuesday during a second quarter earnings conference call.