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As an aftereffect of the deadly San Bruno natural gas transmission pipeline blast in September, gas curtailments remain a possibility for Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E) largest customers in San Francisco and the peninsula region to the south, but a separate electricity milestone in the Bay Area Monday has helped ease that threat.

Following the deadly explosion at a natural gas-fired power plant under construction in Connecticut Sunday, Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) has raised concerns about a Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) proposed pipeline expansion that he says would be built through New Jersey to primarily benefit New York.

Following the deadly explosion at a natural gas-fired power plant under construction in Connecticut Sunday, Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) has raised concerns about a Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) proposed pipeline expansion that he says would be built through New Jersey to primarily benefit New York.

Coalbed methane used to be a deadly threat to coal miners. In the 1950s and 1960s natural gas was routinely flared as an unwanted by-product of oil production. Gas from shales and tight sands, once spurned as too difficult to produce, is now the future for many domestic producers. And methane hydrates lie beneath the world’s oceans waiting for technology to free them while liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers ply the waves above.

Coalbed methane used to be a deadly threat to coal miners. In the 1950s and 1960s natural gas was routinely flared as an unwanted by-product of oil production. Gas from shales and tight sands, once spurned as too difficult to produce, is now the future for many domestic producers. And natural gas hydrates lie beneath the world’s oceans waiting for technology to free them while liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers ply the waves above.

Following a recent series of deadly accidents involving both its oil and natural gas pipelines, Mexico’s state-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said it will spend $330 million to improve the safety of the entire pipeline network.

The deadly explosion at Algeria’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex last month may raise the perceptions of risk associated with the fuel and increase insurance costs during a critical period of planned LNG plant expansion in the United States and overseas, says an energy analyst with Fitch Ratings in London.

The deadly explosion at Algeria’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex earlier this month may raise the perceptions of risk associated with the fuel and increase insurance costs during a critical period of planned LNG plant expansion in the United States and overseas, says an energy analyst with Fitch Ratings in London.

The fallout from Monday’s explosion at Algeria’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex, which killed as many as 27 workers and injured up to 72 persons, has extended all the way to Washington, DC, causing federal energy regulators to question whether a blast of a similar magnitude could occur at LNG facilities in the United States.