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Natural gas buyers consider reliability, honesty and dependability, along with competitive pricing and accuracy of invoices and statements, to be the most important issues when they work with marketers, according to Mastio’s Natural Gas Marketer Customer Value & Loyalty Study for 2009.

Natural gas buyers consider reliability, honesty and dependability, along with competitive pricing and accuracy of invoices and statements, to be the most important issues when they work with marketers, according to Mastio’s Natural Gas Marketer Customer Value & Loyalty Study for 2009.

Natural gas buyers consider reliability, honesty and dependability, along with competitive pricing and accuracy of invoices and statements, to be the most important issues when they work with marketers, according to Mastio’s Natural Gas Marketer Customer Value & Loyalty Study for 2009.

ExxonMobil Corp. will ramp up more natural gas output from Colorado’s Piceance Basin “across the balance of the year,” and will continue to evaluate leaseholds in British Columbia’s Horn River Basin and in the Marcellus Shale, among others, the company’s vice president of investor relations said Thursday.

SCANA Energy has won a competitive bid to continue serving as Georgia’s sole regulated provider of natural gas for special groups, the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) said Tuesday.

A pioneering firm in California’s ill-fated competitive retail electricity market, Costa Mesa, CA-based Commerce Energy Group Inc., finds itself mired in a sea of red ink as it compiles its fiscal 2008 results, selling off a Houston-based energy consulting firm it acquired four years ago after announcing earlier this year that it was cutting about one-third of its work force.

A pioneering firm in California’s ill-fated competitive retail electricity market, Costa Mesa, CA-based Commerce Energy Group Inc., is mired in a sea of red ink as it compiles its fiscal 2008 results, selling off a Houston-based energy consulting firm it acquired four years ago and announcing earlier this year that it was cutting about one-third of its work force.

Prices for natural gas, crude oil and electricity, which already are alarmingly high, are expected to continue their upward climb through the end of the year or longer, according to the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Short-Term Energy Outlook for July.

Weather, the weakening U.S. dollar, stronger demand and North America’s inability to attract cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in a competitive world market are all expected to exert upward pressure on natural gas prices, according to this month’s “Short-Term Energy Outlook” from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).