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Consultants at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) are convinced that natural gas production in North America is poised to enter a long-term decline and that imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will have to make up the supply gap. But Tom Wood, gas production expert at the Energy Information Administration (EIA), isn’t buying it. Wood said the gas resource is still there, but producers simply have chosen to drill overseas in the short-term.

Consultants at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) are convinced that natural gas production in North America is poised to enter a long-term decline and that imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will have to make up the supply gap. But Tom Wood, gas production expert at the Energy Information Administration (EIA) isn’t buying it. Wood said the gas resource is still there, but producers simply have chosen to drill overseas in the short-term.

Consulting firm R.J. Rudden Associates Inc. is conducting a survey of local distribution companies (LDCs) to determine the impact on their business of the demise of large marketing companies since the Enron bankruptcy.

Financially troubled Allegheny Energy Inc. announced last Thursday that it sold two affiliates — Fellon-McCord & Associates and Alliance Energy Services LLC — to Constellation Energy Group for an estimated $22.3 million.

Financially troubled Allegheny Energy Inc. announced Thursday that it sold two affiliates — Fellon-McCord & Associates and Alliance Energy Services LLC — to Constellation Energy Group for an estimated $22.3 million.

Reversing the old saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” Ben Schlesinger of Benjamin Schlesinger and Associates said last week that unfortunately the energy market is broken and desperately needs to be fixed soon.

Reversing the old saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” Ben Schlesinger of Benjamin Schlesinger and Associates said that unfortunately the energy market is broken and desperately needs to be fixed soon.

Analysts at Raymond James & Associates took a double-blade axe to their natural gas price forecast for the rest of the year, chopping an entire dollar off the prices they are expecting to see in the third and fourth quarters. They based the change on the likelihood that gas prices will crash when the full level of storage is reached well before the end of the injection season.

Analysts at Raymond James & Associates took a double-blade axe to their natural gas price forecast for the rest of the year, chopping an entire dollar off the prices they are expecting to see in the third and fourth quarters. They based the change on the likelihood that gas prices will crash when the full level of storage is reached well before the end of the injection season.