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As the natural gas industry pushes for a standardized drilling ordinance in Pennsylvania, it doesn’t expect the regulations to be easy, just predictable, a pair of executives told an audience in Pittsburgh last Wednesday.

As the natural gas industry pushes for a standardized drilling ordinance in Pennsylvania, it doesn’t expect the regulations to be easy, just predictable, a pair of executives told an audience in Pittsburgh.

Williams may have come up short in its bid to acquire Southern Union Co., but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other deals waiting to be made, CEO Alan Armstrong said last week.

Williams may have come up short in its bid to acquire Southern Union Co., but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other deals waiting to be made, CEO Alan Armstrong said Wednesday.

The proposed Kinder Morgan Inc. acquisition of El Paso Corp. doesn’t change Calgary, Alberta-based TransCanada Corp.’s strategy that is divided among natural gas, including shale; oil through its proposed addition to Keystone XL pipeline; and a growing gas-fired and renewable-based power generation business, CEO Russ Girling told financial analysts Tuesday as TransCanada reported a robust quarter-over-quarter improvement in profits for the third quarter.

U.S. shale natural gas production today is half the size of the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) business, which doesn’t bode well for those with designs on imports but is a positive for proposed export facilities, the Houston-based chief of Gazprom Marketing & Trading USA (GM&T) said Monday.

Pennsylvania policymakers should “watch the rigs” as they make decisions, Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) President Kathryn Klaber told a Pittsburgh audience Thursday.

The last day of summer saw lower prices at all but a few locations Thursday. Although the season doesn’t officially start until Friday, fall-like weather was already in place for many market areas. The previous day’s drop of 6.8 cents by October futures, restrictions to avoid packing pipeline (particularly those serving the Northeast), and further evidence that storage injection options are quickly fading added to the overall bearishness.

Officials in a New Jersey township have joined environmental groups in opposition to plans to expand one of the state’s natural gas pipelines, which would bring Marcellus Shale gas to markets in the state and the New York City metropolitan area.