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TransCanada Corp. Tuesday said its Bison Pipeline has begun service, transporting natural gas produced in the Powder River Basin to customers in growing Midwest markets.

Radio talk show host Ron Morris has begun broadcasting a 12-part series on the Marcellus Shale on a Pittsburgh radio station, WMNY 1360, aimed at getting the facts about shale development.

While economists say the recession has ended and some economic indicators have begun to trend upward, continued weak demand led to another decline in natural gas marketing during the third quarter, with the total volume sold in North America tumbling 4% — nearly 5 Bcf/d — according to NGI’s 3Q2009 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking. read more

Denver-based Antero Resources, which has begun to expand its holdings in the Marcellus Shale, said Thursday it has acquired privately held Bluestone Energy Partners, an Appalachian natural gas producer.

Enterprise Products Partners LP’s fourth natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionator at its Mont Belvieu, TX, complex has begun operating ahead of schedule and under budget at its nameplate capacity of 75,000 b/d, the partnership said Tuesday.

Trans Energy Inc. has begun drilling its sixth horizontal well in Marshall County, WV, looking to further tap into the area’s Marcellus Shale gas, the independent exploration and production company said Monday.

Meritage Midstream Services has completed and begun flowing gas on the Fasken Ranch lateral pipeline, which is an extension of the company’s Eagle Ford Escondido Gathering System in Webb County, TX.

It seems like everybody and their brother and sister has begun pushing more drilling capital expenditures into “oilier” shale gas assets, somewhat at the expense of the drier plays. What will it take to return some of the former luster of nearly all-dry plays such as Haynesville?

San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s pipeline/storage business said last Tuesday it had 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.