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Texas Railroad Commissioner David Porter has assembled an Eagle Ford Task Force charged with establishing best practices for development of the South Texas play based on input from across the industry and affected communities.

Looking to jump on the “green train” before it leaves the station, a former UBS banker has assembled experts from Goldman Sachs, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Barclays to form Greentech Capital Advisors (GCA), an alternative energy and cleantech-focused investment bank.

Looking to jump on the ‘green train’ before it leaves the station, a former UBS banker has assembled experts from Goldman Sachs, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Barclays to form Greentech Capital Advisors (GCA), an alternative energy and cleantech-focused investment bank.

With an international audience assembled last week in Long Beach, CA, only a couple of miles from one of the proposed sites for the West Coast’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminals, a mixture of industry, government, consulting and consumer representatives outlined a mostly hopeful, but by no means assured, vision of LNG imports along the West Coast.

ChevronTexaco Corp.’s stock restructuring deal with Dynegy Inc. may help it realize a gain in its third quarter income, and also help it book an increase in the value of its Dynegy securities in its second quarter report, the company said after the Dynegy announcement last week (see related story).