Effects

Despite significant differences in the amount of natural gas marketed by individual companies and the effects of some major acquisitions, there was a 7.6 Bcf/d increase in the total amount of natural gas transacted by the 24 marketers who participated in both NGI’s 3Q2010 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking and NGI’s 3Q2009 survey.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has installed a new air monitor in Flower Mound, TX, in southern Denton County to track the effects of Barnett Shale gas patch activity.

Using the experience it gained in the unconventional gas fields of the Piceance Basin in Colorado, and the Montney and Horn River shale plays in British Columbia, Encana Corp. has begun to advance its “gas factory” approach in the Haynesville Shale, where it holds more than 430,000 net acres spread across Louisiana and East Texas.

Lower results in its wholesale business related to natural gas prices and their effects on storage and transportation hedges, along with weather impacts on its retail business, weighed down second quarter earnings for Atlanta-based AGL Resources Inc., but better days aren’t far away, according to CEO John W. Somerhalder II.

Lower results in its wholesale business related to natural gas prices and their effects on storage and transportation hedges, along with weather impacts on its retail business, weighed down second quarter earnings for Atlanta-based AGL Resources Inc., but better days aren’t far away, according to CEO John W. Somerhalder II.

Natural gas industry groups in Denver last week urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit the scope of a federal study on the effects of hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracing).

La Nina conditions — an unusual cooling of ocean surface temperatures off the western coast of South America that is believed to have significant effects on North American weather patterns — continue to develop across the equatorial Pacific, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).

La Nina conditions — an unusual cooling of ocean surface temperatures off the western coast of South America that is believed to have significant effects on North American weather patterns — continue to develop across the equatorial Pacific, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).

Natural gas industry groups in Denver on Tuesday night asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit the scope of a federal study on the effects of hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracing).