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After a bruising ride on roller-coaster markets, the treasurer of Canada’s chief natural gas- and oil-producing jurisdiction is urging its residents to think about weaning public services off a reliance on resource windfalls.

The search is on for a new chief at Nexen Inc. after President and CEO Marvin Romanow resigned last week.

The search is on for a new chief at Nexen Inc. after President and CEO Marvin Romanow resigned on Monday.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has fined Talisman Energy USA Inc. $51,478 for a well control incident that prompted the company to shut down all North American hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) operations in early 2011.

The Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) has elected a top Chesapeake Energy Corp. executive to lead the industry coalition into 2012.

The shift to natural gas and electricity as replacements for gasoline in transportation would greatly increase natural gas demand, according to Ty Harrison, Societe Generale Energy’s chief strategist, speaking at the opening of the LDC Gas Forum: Rockies & West conference Tuesday in Los Angeles.

An economic impact study released Tuesday by the Ohio Oil & Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP) found that more than 200,000 oil and natural gas jobs, generating $12 billion in wages and income, could be created in the Buckeye State’s portion of the Utica Shale by 2015.

First-year Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is still ironing out an energy policy for his resources-rich state, the governor’s chief policy director, Shawn Reese, told NGI Monday. Mead recently offered some “introductory remarks” on the still-developing policy statement when he spoke last week at the state Natural Gas Fair.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has named a former Boots & Coots executive to lead a newly created oilfield services unit that will house the producer’s growing business and complement its massive U.S. drilling program.