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FERC should consider developing a model — one that is closer to those used by other federal enforcement agencies — for cracking down on individual traders who repeatedly manipulate energy markets, Commissioner Philip Moeller said Thursday.

FERC should consider developing a model — one that is closer to those used by other federal enforcement agencies — for cracking down on individual traders who repeatedly manipulate energy markets, Commissioner Philip Moeller said Thursday.

The shale natural gas market in North America is helping to revamp the U.S. chemicals industry and may benefit a variety of other manufacturing sectors through lower costs for raw materials and energy, according to a report issued on Tuesday by PwC US.

A bipartisan coalition of senators has expressed concerns that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is attempting to expand its definition of diesel fuels in the draft permitting guidance to gain more federal control over hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

The board of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) is slated to consider a resolution addressing the issue of coordinating U.S. natural gas and electricity grids at its next national meeting.

The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) says it will consider short-term water sales from two lakes in eastern Ohio to oil and natural gas operators drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shales.

Gasfrac Energy Services Inc., which has been attempting to build market share in the U.S. hydraulic fracturing (fracking) market with its waterless technology, on Tuesday said CEO Zeke Zeringue and COO Steve Batchelor have left the company, and an operational review and management restructuring have begun.

City council members in Lafayette, CO, agreed Tuesday to consider a temporary ban on oil and natural gas drilling while they revise regulations that have not been updated since 1994.

The House Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday to consider whether to subpoena five Interior Department officials to appear before the panel to respond to questions about the Obama administration’s actions leading up to a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) in May 2010.