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The Marcellus Shale is not only the most economic natural gas basin in the country, it is producing better returns than many oil plays, an energy industry analyst told an audience in Philadelphia last week.

Disclosure of the chemicals used for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) well stimulation is becoming the law of the land in the energy-rich Ark-La-Tex region, a natural gas breadbasket for the country, and elsewhere. However, in environmentally conscious California legislation to require disclosure has stumbled.

Disclosure of the chemicals used for hydraulic fracturing (fracking) well stimulation is becoming the law of the land in the energy-rich Ark-La-Tex region, a natural gas breadbasket for the country. However, in environmentally conscious California legislation to require disclosure has stumbled.

Shale producers should take seriously the questions and issues being raised by environmentalists and others with concerns about hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and be “open and transparent” about the composition of their fracking fluids, FERC Commissioner John Norris said Tuesday.

Export Development Canada (EDC), the country’s export credit agency, is predicting that New Brunswick’s growth in energy exports will slow in 2011 and 2012, in part due to depressed natural gas prices.

Export Development Canada (EDC), the country’s export credit agency, said Friday that New Brunswick’s growth in energy exports will slow in 2011 and 2012, in part due to depressed natural gas prices.

While the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) doesn’t know if any companies are still delivering Marcellus Shale wastewater to treatment facilities in the state, it won’t tolerate any “slackers,” Secretary Michael Krancer told an audience in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.

Natural gas prices are increasingly uniform across the country and “we are very, very close to having a national type of gas market,” Federal Energy Regulatory (FERC) officials said during a discussion Thursday of the FERC’s Summer 2010 Energy Market and Reliability Assessment.

Cheniere Energy Partners LP unit Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC has received approval from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to liquefy and export U.S. natural gas from the Sabine Pass LNG terminal to any country that has or develops import capacity.