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U.S. domestic crude oil production is at its highest level in 20 years, outstripping pipeline capacity and, increasingly, making its way to refineries and storage centers via railroads, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Over the last two years nearly 70% of the new power generation plants proposed for the 13-state PJM Interconnection electric grid, which centers on the Marcellus and Utica Shales, would be fired by natural gas.

As U.S. operators move onshore from the offshore, wellhead freeze-offs are becoming a bigger risk to natural gas supplies, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Tuesday in the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO).

Baker Hughes Inc.’s North American activity is predicted to be steady this year compared with 2012, but customers still remain cautious about what’s ahead, CEO Martin Craighead said Wednesday. Canadian projects also are posing “near-term risks,” he said.

Population centers in the East aren’t likely to feel the worst of this summer’s heat, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based Weather Services International (WSI), who said in a three-month forecast issued last week that they expect most of the season’s significant temperatures to be felt in the Plains and Rockies.

Population centers in the East aren’t likely to feel the worst of this summer’s heat, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based Weather Services International (WSI), who said in their three-month forecast that they expect most of the season’s significant heat to be felt in the Plains and Rockies.

Much of the country can expect temperatures to average warmer than normal throughout the summer, with population centers in the Northeast likely to experience increasingly intense and widespread heat into August and September, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based WSI Corp.

Much of the country can expect temperatures to average warmer than normal throughout the summer, with population centers in the Northeast likely to experience increasingly intense and widespread heat into August and September, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based WSI Corp.

“Replumbing” the natural gas industry to better connect growing production and demand centers around the nation will have various impacts on gas flows, but won’t do much in the near term to dampen double-digit gas prices, Porter Bennett, president of Bentek Energy, told an industry audience at GasMart 2008 in Chicago. Bennett was part of a panel that looked at market fundamentals of weather, storage and pipeline flows.