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When it goes into effect next month, Ohio’s SB 315 will bring regulatory change to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and four other state agencies, but that’s just the beginning of the changes the oil and gas industry can expect from the legislation, according to Craig Kasper, CEO of project development and engineering company Hull & Associates Inc.

U.S. regulators should approve applications to export liquefied domestic natural gas, but they should let markets decide whether and to what extent exports happen, a Council on Foreign Relations researcher asserts in an upcoming paper. Exports will have drawbacks, but these can be mitigated and will be outweighed by benefits of export, council Senior Fellow Michael Levi told reporters last Wednesday.

Growing use of gas-fired power plants in the United States is helping, to a large extent, to drive down the country’s emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Since 2006, the United States has led the world in cutting CO2 emissions, the agency said recently.

U.S. regulators should approve applications to export liquefied domestic natural gas, but they should let markets decide whether and to what extent exports happen, a Council on Foreign Relations researcher asserts in an upcoming paper. Exports will have drawbacks, but these can be mitigated and will be outweighed by benefits of export, council Senior Fellow Michael Levi told reporters Wednesday.

What would you call a lot of natural gas, ready at a moment’s notice? Some might call it a storage facility. Others might call it the Marcellus Shale.

Despite the decision by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to shut down a wastewater disposal well in Youngstown, industry backers are confident the decision will not have an impact on the emerging oil and gas industry in Ohio’s portions of the Marcellus and Utica shales.

The blast of cold air that descended through the Midwest into much of the South at midweek last week would be waning to some extent during the weekend. So despite a moderate amount of prior-day futures support, the brief decline of heating load combined with the usual weekend dip of industrial demand to push cash prices lower across the board Friday.

Two Democratic senators have taken the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to task for failing to capture the extent of proprietary trading by banks, an oversight that they claim will make it difficult for regulators and policy makers to implement restrictions on proprietary trading, including trading of energy commodities.

Two Democratic senators have taken the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to task for failing to capture the extent of proprietary trading by banks, an oversight that they claim will make it difficult for regulators and policy makers to implement restrictions on proprietary trading, including trading of energy commodities.