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San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s pipeline/storage business announced Tuesday it has begun service in Cavern 4 at its Bay Gas Storage facility in Alabama, adding 5 Bcf of working capacity that is fully subscribed, according to the operator. Construction of a fifth cavern at the salt dome natural gas storage facility is under way.

Gill Ranch Storage LLC (GRS), a subsidiary of NW Natural, has begun service from a new underground storage facility at Gill Ranch near Fresno, CA.

Fall may have officially begun a day earlier, but with parts of the Northeast joining the South and desert Southwest in conditions that felt more like summer, prices continued to rise at nearly all points Thursday. The cash market got an additional boost from Wednesday’s 4.7-cent gain by October futures, and a concern about the pending formation of a new tropical storm in the Caribbean likely played a role.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Carlsbad Field Office in New Mexico has begun a process to revise and update its Resource Management Plan (RMP) for public lands in Eddy, Lea and southwestern Chaves counties, the federal agency said Friday.

The mad dash to tap the massive natural gas and oil shales across North America has begun to cut into the bottom line as service costs rise, Encana Corp. executives said last week.

Energy executives have begun to strengthen their workforces to prepare for the economic recovery and to ready for more unconventional natural gas and oil resource development, according to a new survey.

Energy executives have begun to strengthen their workforces to prepare for the economic recovery and to ready for more unconventional natural gas and oil resource development, according to a new survey.

The mad dash to tap the massive natural gas and oil shales across North America has begun to cut into the bottom line as service costs rise, Encana Corp. executives said Wednesday.

The mad dash to tap the massive natural gas and oil shales across North America has begun to cut into the bottom line as service costs rise, Encana Corp. executives said Wednesday.