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Natural gas production from unconventional sources in Pennsylvania hit a record 2.04 Tcf in 2012, as the state’s Marcellus/Utica shale gas for the first time edged ahead of the granddaddy Barnett Shale in Texas.

In one remote corner of North America natural gas still fetches a price that covers its costs, including drilling and pipeline construction. On the Mackenzie Delta an environmental assessment is beginning on a supply project called Ikhil for Inuvik, the biggest town in the Canadian land of the midnight sun.

In one remote corner of North America natural gas still fetches a price that covers its costs, including drilling and pipeline construction. On the Mackenzie Delta an environmental assessment is beginning on a supply project called Ikhil for Inuvik, the biggest town in the Canadian land of the midnight sun.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Cadeville Gas Storage LLC’s application to build a planned gas storage facility in Ouachita Parish, LA, approximately 10 miles southwest of Monroe. Storage services are scheduled to begin in 2012. The three- to four-turn facility is being designed to provide a peak deliverability of 420 MMcf/d and a peak injection of 420 MMcf/d. Cadeville plans to convert a depleted gas reservoir to develop a total of 16.5 Bcf of working capacity. The facility would have the ability to interconnect to Tennessee Gas Pipeline Line 100, Gulf South’s Middle 30, Gulf South’s 42-inch East Texas to Mississippi Expansion, Texas Gas Transmission, CenterPoint Energy Line CP and Energy Transfer Partners’ 42″ Tiger Pipeline. Open seasons held in 2009 (see NGI, April 6, 2009) and earlier this summer (see NGI, May 31) received total bids for more than twice the amount of working gas capacity proposed in its application, according to Cadeville.

With U.S. natural gas production on track to grow at least 3.6% in 2008 versus a year ago, producers won’t be able to lay down rigs fast enough to offset the unprecedented growth and thus face a “high possibility” of forced shut-ins and regional basis blowouts next summer, Raymond James & Associates Inc. reported Monday.

MoBay Storage Hub LLC, an affiliate of Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc., signed a gas storage lease with the State of Alabama that covers more than 24,000 acres of state-owned lands, clearing the way for construction of the MoBay Storage Hub to start this spring, the company said last Wednesday.

MoBay Storage Hub LLC, an affiliate of Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc., signed a gas storage lease with the State of Alabama that covers more than 24,000 acres of state-owned lands, clearing the way for construction of the MoBay Storage Hub to start this spring, the company said Wednesday.

The Pinedale Anticline in southwestern Wyoming, home to the prolific Jonah Field, covers only about 90 square miles on about 150,000 acres, but the natural gas output from the fairway’s tight sands has been nothing short of remarkable. Now testing is under way to determine whether gas shale development could make the Anticline and neighboring basins even more remarkable.

The Pinedale Anticline in southwestern Wyoming, home to the prolific Jonah Field, covers only about 90 square miles on about 150,000 acres, but the natural gas output from the fairway’s tight sands has been nothing short of remarkable. Producers now are conducting tests that could make output from the play even more remarkable — because of the unknown potential of the region’s gas shale.