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President Obama Friday called on the Senate to pass comprehensive legislation aimed at protecting critical national infrastructure, including energy facilities, from cyber attacks.

Physical gas prices on average plunged Tuesday as temperature forecasts called for moderation. Particularly hard hit were Northeast points, but quotes elsewhere fell as well. One point in the Marcellus did manage a gain.

Jersey City, NJ, has called on FERC to stay a June order approving the start of construction of Spectra Energy Corp.’s New Jersey-New York Expansion Project, a 20-mile expansion of the Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) and Algonquin Gas Transmission interstate pipeline systems (see NGI, July 2).

Jersey City, NJ, has called on FERC to stay a June order approving the start of construction of Spectra Energy Corp.’s New Jersey-New York Expansion Project, a 20-mile expansion of the Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) and Algonquin Gas Transmission interstate pipeline systems.

Shale plays globally are a very good long-term asset and the continuing hype about the under-explored Monterey Shale in California is worthy of most of the superlatives, according to two analysts at Wood Mackenzie’s Houston office.

Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee have called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and White House to clarify language in a recent executive order creating an interagency working group on hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Institutional investor groups representing trillions of dollars in assets have called on the oil and natural gas industry to use best practice control technologies to reduce global methane emissions from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of unconventional wells.

A Washington, DC-based watchdog group has called on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate whether large natural gas producers, notably Chesapeake Energy Corp. and ConocoPhillips, are conspiring to limit their production to raise demand for and increase the price of natural gas in violation of the antitrust laws. ConocoPhillips said the allegations are “without foundation.”

Beginning July 1 producers that use hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on wells in Oklahoma will be required to disclose the contents of the frack fluids they use, save for those contents that are deemed to be trade secrets. The regulations adopted earlier this year by state lawmakers and enacted by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) are similar to those in other states.