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Costs, Demand Not on Shale Map, Says Economist

Costs, Demand Not on Shale Map, Says Economist

Checking a map is the first step to knowing where one is going, but when it comes to forecasting shale gas supply and demand, the map can throw some international gas end-users off course, an energy economist said.

September 30, 2013
Pipelines Said Key for Oregon LNG Plans

Pipelines Said Key for Oregon LNG Plans

A lot of under-used natural gas pipeline capacity from supply sources on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border is a key competitive advantage in Oregon for two proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, according to backers of the Jordan Cove and Oregon LNG projects.

September 30, 2013

National Fuel’s LDC Adjusts for Supplies ‘Right Under Our Feet’

Five years ago National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. put in place a long-term strategy to deliver Pennsylvania and New York natural gas utility customers with natural gas from long-haul pipelines moving from the Gulf Coast. The Marcellus Shale since has sent that strategy out the window.

September 30, 2013

Mexico to Export LNG, Says Sempra Chief

Assuming the U.S. natural gas business continues its robust growth, Mexico is likely to shift from being a natural gas importer to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, Sempra Energy International CEO George Liparidis told participants last week at the Wolfe Research Power and Gas Leaders Conference in New York City.

September 30, 2013

In Shale Oversight, One Size (Federal) Doesn’t Fit All

Top industry executives from Colorado, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Texas last week told a crowd at the Shale Insight 2013 conference in Philadelphia that states and not the federal government should continue to be the primary oil and natural gas enforcers.

September 30, 2013

Gingrich Delivers Red Meat to Carnivorous Crowd

The pioneering shale gas and oil developers have to be unshackled by “prison guards of the past” to allow the United States to achieve energy independence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on the closing day of the Shale Insight conference in Philadelphia.

September 30, 2013
Marcellus Holds Great Power, Great Responsibility

Marcellus Holds Great Power, Great Responsibility

Will anyone be able to look back on this time in the United States and not consider it to be a golden age for natural gas? Will anyone doubt that the Marcellus Shale was the blazing star in that firmament?

September 30, 2013

EIA to Add Implied Flow to Weekly NatGas Storage Reports

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is proposing a change to the format of itsWeekly Natural Gas Storage Report(WNGSR), adding an estimate of the implied flow of working natural gas into or out of underground storage facilities to its WNGSR summary table.

September 30, 2013
Raymond James Devises Substitute for Rig Count

Raymond James Devises Substitute for Rig Count

The move to horizontal drilling and longer laterals has made the domestic land rig count not so simple anymore, leading Raymond James & Associates Inc. last week to launch well and footage count forecasts.

September 30, 2013
Shell’s North American Downsizing Underway

Shell’s North American Downsizing Underway

A U.S. arm of Royal Dutch Shell plc is throwing in the towel in the Kansas portion of the Mississippian Lime, selling off 45 producing wells and about 600,000 net lease acres. Last week the operator also pulled the plug on an oil shale research center in Colorado.

September 30, 2013