Canada

In a region with increasingly robust natural gas supplies and infrastructure, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill (SB 32) to empower state regulators to develop ways to extend gas distribution utility service to more of its sparsely populated areas that rely on trucked-in propane as their heating source.

In a region with increasingly robust natural gas supplies and infrastructure, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill (SB 32) to empower state regulators to develop ways to extend gas distribution utility service to more of its sparsely populated areas that rely on trucked-in propane as their heating source.

Royal Dutch Shell plc and its partners received formal environmental approval Wednesday for their entry in the lineup to export liquefied natural gas from British Columbia.

Royal Dutch Shell plc and its partners received formal environmental approval Wednesday for their entry in the lineup to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from British Columbia (BC).

Statoil SA, which controls a broad portfolio of onshore and offshore leaseholds in North America, is reducing its workforce again, adding on to an enormous reduction in the industry's workforce since the start of the year. One major Canadian drilling group expects up to 25,000 industry drilling jobs to be gone by the end of the year, while another put direct and indirect job losses in Canada at close to 185,000.

Statoil SA, which controls a broad portfolio of onshore and offshore leaseholds in North America, is reducing its workforce again, adding on to an enormous reduction in the industry’s workforce since the start of the year. One major Canadian drilling group expects up to 25,000 industry drilling jobs to be gone by the end of the year, while another put direct and indirect job losses in Canada at close to 185,000.

MDU Resources Group's Intermountain Gas Co. on Thursday received approval from Idaho regulators for its updated five-year integrated resource plan, which anticipates increased demand among its residential, commercial and industrial customers spread across the southern half of the state.

MDU Resources Group’s Intermountain Gas Co. on Thursday received approval from Idaho regulators for its updated five-year integrated resource plan (IRP), which anticipates increased demand among its residential, commercial and industrial customers spread across the southern half of the state.

Canadian natural gas exports to the United States shrank last year to their smallest volume since 1995 as rival American shale supplies grew, according to trade records kept by the U.S. Department of Energy.