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NTE Energy, which recently began building two natural gas-fired combined-cycle facilities in North Carolina and Ohio, said Friday it would invest $2 billion more to build three more gas-fired plants, including another in North Carolina and in Ohio, as well as in Connecticut.

NTE Energy, which recently began building two natural gas-fired combined-cycle facilities in North Carolina and Ohio, said Friday it would invest $2 billion more to build three more gas-fired plants, including another in North Carolina and in Ohio, as well as in Connecticut.

Iowa-based Alliant Energy Corp.’s Wisconsin utility is seeking approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to build a 650 MW combined-cycle natural gas-fueled generating station at the company’s Riverside Energy Center near Beloit, WI.

Iowa-based Alliant Energy Corp.'s Wisconsin utility is seeking approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to build a 650 MW combined-cycle natural gas-fueled generating station at the company's Riverside Energy Center near Beloit, WI.

Azure Midstream Energy LLC and Marlin Midstream Partners LP have agreed to transactions that would create one of the largest gathering and processing systems in the Haynesville Shale and horizontal Cotton Valley plays in East Texas and northern Louisiana.

Texas A&M University (TAMU) has launched a multidisciplinary research approach at home and abroad to support shale gas and natural gas exploration, production and monetization activities.

General Electric Co. (GE) continues to make inroads into the U.S. energy industry, announcing Thursday a partnership with the University of Notre Dame and four public entities to build a research and test facility in Indiana for natural gas turbine engines used by commercial and military aircraft, power plants, and the oil and gas industry.

Two centers backed by major industry leaders opened in September in the heart of the nation’s western oil/gas production areas: a state-of-the-art center for teaching the latest advances in natural gas compression in Oklahoma, and a digital rock physics laboratory in Wyoming.

The oil and gas industry is lionizing George Phydias Mitchell, 94, who died at his home on Friday in Galveston, TX. Mitchell is credited with pioneering unconventional drilling techniques that have opened up North America’s natural gas and oil potential.