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Global natural gas markets were tepid Tuesday despite growing risks of Australian LNG work stoppages. While the global natural gas community gathered in Singapore for the start of the Gastech 2023 conference, workers at Chevron Corp.’s Gorgon and Wheatstone liquefied natural gas terminals disclosed plans for walkouts. Representatives for the Offshore Alliance said workers could…

While Woodside Energy Group Ltd. is pushing ahead with multi-billion dollar natural gas development projects to secure the future of its Australian assets, it made moves in the third quarter to grow its exposure to European markets with help from some added U.S. LNG. The third quarter was Woodside’s first full earnings period since it…

Commonwealth Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to supply Summit Oil and Shipping Co. Ltd. (SOSCL) with 1 million metric tons/year (mmty) of the super-chilled fuel for a term of 20 years from its proposed export terminal in Cameron, LA.  Part of the Summit Group, SOSCL is the largest private…

Gunvor Group Ltd. has thrown its support behind the Commonwealth liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project through an agreement that would see the LNG trading heavyweight commit to take more than a third of the capacity at the Cameron Parish, LA, facility.

Houston-based Commonwealth LNG LLC on Tuesday filed with FERC for a certificate to build its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Cameron Parish, LA.

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has ruled that the state Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) interpretation of the Clean Streams Law would result in “potentially limitless continuing violations,” handing a win to EQT Corp., which has been battling the agency over the issue since May 2014.

In a second go-round, the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has asked the state’s Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lower court’s ruling that it does not have the authority to review and challenge local zoning ordinances that are not conducive to oil and natural gas development.

The top three trade groups that represent the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania filed a petition with the state’s Commonwealth Court on Wednesday, asking that they be allowed to intervene in the ongoing legal battle over Act 13, the state’s omnibus Marcellus Shale law.

A county judge in Pennsylvania has refused to remove himself from presiding over a lawsuit filed by Range Resources Corp., stating that he can remain objective in the case despite his wife’s activities with an environmental group opposed to hydraulic fracturing (fracking).