A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight Gazprom PJSC did not book any of the 63.7 million cubic meters/day of interruptible natural gas pipeline capacity through Ukraine at a monthly auction on Tuesday. It was the fourth consecutive month that Gazprom did not take additional volumes. The company has been booking additional…
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NatGas from Argentina’s Neuquén Fetches $1.79/MMBtu for April in Auction
Natural gas from Argentina’s province Neuquén, home to most of the Vaca Muerta deposit, fetched $1.79/MMBtu on average in the latest online auction held by Argentina’s online gas market Mercado Electrónico del Gas (Megsa).

NatGas from Argentina’s Neuquén Fetches $1.79/MMBtu for April in Auction
Natural gas from Argentina’s province Neuquén, home to most of the Vaca Muerta deposit, fetched $1.79/MMBtu on average in the latest online auction held by Argentina’s online gas market Mercado Electrónico del Gas (Megsa).

Judge Orders Wyoming Drilling Halted on Climate Change Issues
A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) did an inadequate job of considering the effects of climate change when it authorized oil and gas lease sales in the West, and he ordered a temporary halt to drilling on more than 300,000 acres in Wyoming.
Mississippi Canyon Yields Most — and Highest — Bids in BOEM Lease Sale
A cadre of 30 oil and gas producers submitted 257 total bids in Wednesday’s Gulf of Mexico (GOM) region-wide auction, with the Mississippi Canyon drawing the highest bid and a unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc far and away outbidding everybody.
BOEM Schedules Another Region-Wide GOM Oil, Gas Auction for March
The Interior Department is planning yet another region-wide lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) next March, when it plans to auction about 78 million acres for oil and natural gas development.

López Obrador’s Fracking Ban Threats Spur Mexican Business Leaders to Seek Review
Business leaders in Mexico’s northern Gulf state of Tamaulipas fear that a potential ban on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) used in unconventional oil and natural gas drilling could doom their economically depressed region to a future of more poverty and crime.
Interior’s August GOM Auction to Offer 14,622 Shallow, Deepwater Blocks
Nearly 78 million acres are on offer for oil and natural gas development offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida in a federal auction to be held in August, the Department of Interior said Friday.

PJM Auction Adds More Natural Gas Capacity Versus Year Ago
Natural gas continued to gain in PJM Interconnection’s annual capacity auction held this month.
Pemex Readies Oil & Gas Farmout Offensive; Posts Positive 1Q2018 Earnings
In what will be the largest auction of its type, Mexico’s state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is to offer seven farm-out license contracts in southeastern Mexico, the industry regulator, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) agreed Thursday.