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NGI’s Shale Price Indices in Tuesday’s issue (No. 115) incorrectly reflected deals done Friday March 18 for gas delivery March 19 through March 21. The correct indices for deals done March 21 for March 22 delivery are attached and the issue’s pdf has been updated. ( click here for revised pdf )

An air quality study conducted near Marcellus Shale natural gas operations in northeastern Pennsylvania during four separate weeks last year found no emission levels that would constitute a concern to the health of residents living nearby, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said Monday.

A five-week air quality study found no air contaminant emission levels indicating problems for residents living near Marcellus Shale natural gas operations in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Greene and Washington counties, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said Monday.

Some U.S. lawmakers would likely say BP plc CEO Tony Hayward bet the company with the disastrous Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Hayward might do well to click on UK-based betting website paddypower.com, which Friday was offering five-to-four odds that he would be the first to leave/lose his job at BP.

The oil and natural gas industry accounts for less than 2% of the jobs and incomes in the Rocky Mountain states, and natural amenities are more important to the area’s economy, according to a report by the Wilderness Society.

The oil and natural gas industry accounts for less than 2% of the jobs and incomes in the Rocky Mountain states, and natural amenities are more important to the area’s economy, according to a report by the Wilderness Society.

The energy merchant sector has been rebuilt, stronger than ever — and those leading the parade are more than likely the large oil and natural gas producers that once used middlemen to market their natural gas. Also coming out of the closet as energy merchants under their own names are the bankers that used to finance the marketers.

A confluence of positive trends, including continued robustness in wholesale energy trading activity, helped to propel first quarter 2001 earnings at energy marketing and trading powerhouse Enron Corp. and its energy marketing competitor Dynegy Inc. above and beyond expectations previously locked in by Wall Street analysts.

A confluence of positive trends, including continued robustness in wholesale energy trading activity, helped to propel first quarter 2001 earnings at energy marketing and trading powerhouse Enron Corp. and its energy marketing competitor Dynegy Inc. above and beyond expectations previously locked in by Wall Street analysts.