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July natural gas futures rose sharply on a combination of technical buying ahead of the long weekend and algorithmic traders utilizing buy stop orders to limit losses. At the close July had advanced 15.8 cents to $4.518 and August had risen 15.2 cents to $4.557.

Spokane, WA-based Avista Corp.’s combination utility filed with Washington state regulators Monday, seeking rate increases for its natural gas and electric operations to recover costs of bolstering infrastructure to serve 234,000 electric and 147,000 natural gas customers in the state.

Following last Friday’s Earth Day commemorations, two sectors of the federal government demonstrated that a combination of state and federal policy efforts are needed for renewables to make the large-scale breakthrough that their backers envision.

Alta Energy Partners, a newly formed joint venture of privately held Alta Resources LLC and an affiliate of The Blackstone Group, launched plans Tuesday to invest up to $1 billion in unconventional natural gas and oil properties in North America.

New Pennsylvania wastewater treatment rules, which apply to gas drillers in the Marcellus Shale, are now in effect, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said.

Cash prices were pushed lower at most locations Friday by a combination of prior-day futures softness, cool but generally moderate weather and the tendency of industrial load to take the weekend off.

Cash prices were pushed lower at most locations Friday by a combination of prior-day futures softness, cool but generally moderate weather and the tendency of industrial load to take the weekend off.

Lower 48 natural gas production fell by about 2%, or 1.39 Bcf/d, in September from August due to a combination of plant maintenance, repairs and shut-ins brought on by depressed gas prices, according to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 914-data released last Monday. On the demand side, the power generation sector offered about the only bright spot for gas.

Lower 48 natural gas production fell by about 2%, or 1.39 Bcf/d, in September from August due to a combination of plant maintenance, repairs and shut-ins brought on by depressed gas prices, according to the Energy Information Administration’s 914-data released Monday.