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Gulf Oil Limited Partnership, which distributes motor fuels to stations across the country, is moving forward with plans to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility in northeast Pennsylvania, where Marcellus Shale dry gas production continues to rise, according to FERC filings.

Wisconsin Energy Corp. is to acquire Integrys Energy Group Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth $9.1 billion, including debt, to create a Midwest natural gas and power utility giant called WEC Energy Group Inc.

The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) has launched a new website that is intended to improve the availability of commission data and information on its oil and gas regulatory activities. It’s part of the first phase of an information technology (IT) overhaul at the commission.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken action on three issues that Chairman Mark Wetjen said will have a lasting impact on energy-end users that may have fallen victim to “negative, unintended consequences” of the Dodd Frank Financial Reform Act.

The oil and gas division of North Dakota's Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) is planning a public hearing later this month for input on newly adopted Industrial Commission policy to reduce the amount of gas flaring at the wellhead.

With growing attention being paid to tremors thought to be associated with drilling waste injection wells, the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) has made good on its promise to hire a seismologist to study the issue.

The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E) has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in which it claims FERC has refused to release documents in response to an October 2013 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request related to alleged maneuvering by former Chairman Jon Wellinghoff to have Norman Bay, President Obama's nominee to head the Commission, follow him to that position.

Interstate pipelines would have to rise and shine a lot earlier to serve an industry segment that is growing significantly in gas-demand importance — electric power generators — under a FERC proposal released Thursday intended to better coordinate the nation's interstate pipelines and gas-fired power plants.

Two controversial proposals for the robust Bakken oil patch in North Dakota came to an end Monday with more of a whimper than a bang, according to the three-member Industrial Commission.