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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) on Thursday released an operations audit of Philadelphia Gas Works — the nation’s largest municipally-owned gas utility — with recommendations it said could generate up to $10.5 million in savings for the underfunded company.

Chesapeake Energy let hundreds of employees go Tuesday, most of them at its Oklahoma City headquarters, in the second major round of layoffs for the producer in two years.

Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) has filed a request with state regulators to increase its customer’s infrastructure surcharge by 2.5% so it can replace outdated cast iron natural gas mains at a faster pace.

A fight between local residents and a unit of Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas Co. has heated up again over plans by the operator to flare associated gas at the site, which is in a working class neighborhood south of downtown Los Angeles near the University of Southern California (USC) campus. The company is waiting for a city of Los Angeles zoning decision on its plans.

Oklahoma earlier this year enacted a law reiterating its primacy in regulating drilling activities, but the city council in the university town of Stillwater, OK, on Monday passed an ordinance setting rules for oil and natural gas drilling within the city limits.

A defective joint at the connection of a natural gas main and a service tee was among the causes of an explosion that claimed eight lives and injured dozens in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City last year, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

A defective joint at the connection of a natural gas main and a service tee was among the causes of an explosion that claimed eight lives and injured dozens in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City last year, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

The city of Denton, TX, has thrown in the towel in its fight to keep hydraulic fracturing (fracking) out of the city limits after Texas lawmakers enacted legislation to block local bans…

The city of Denton, TX, has thrown in the towel in its fight to keep hydraulic fracturing (fracking) out of the city limits after Texas lawmakers enacted legislation to block local bans on fracking in the Lone Star state.