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Oil and natural gas producers still are poring over the 171-page draft rule governing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activities on public lands, and while proponents and opponents agree that some concessions were made by the agency in the latest rule to avoid duplication of state and tribal fracking requirements, they say BLM could have gone further.

As the natural gas landscape continues to be transformed and renewables emerge on a parallel path, gas industry stakeholders are increasingly focused on the concept of a “smarter,” more flexible gas delivery system along the lines of the electric industry smart grid. Eventually the two need to coalesce, according to a Gas Technology Institute (GTI) technical expert focused on the subject.

It has access to 17 pipelines, multiple and growing Midcontinent gas shale plays, and flexible storage capacity with more to come. Some say Perryville Hub in North Louisiana is the “hub of the future” and will someday overshadow Henry Hub, the South Louisiana home of the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) futures contract.

It has access to 17 pipelines, multiple and growing Midcontinent gas shale plays, and flexible storage capacity with more to come. Some say Perryville Hub in North Louisiana is the “hub of the future” and will someday overshadow Henry Hub, the South Louisiana home of the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) futures contract.

It has access to 17 pipelines, multiple and growing Midcontinent gas shale plays, and flexible storage capacity with more to come. Some say Perryville Hub in North Louisiana is the “hub of the future” and will someday overshadow Henry Hub, the South Louisiana home of the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) futures contract.

Flexible destination liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracts, pipeline/storage inventory, a first-rate commodity trading unit and its newly found international banking partner have made Sempra Energy a global energy player, and the faster that LNG joins the global commodity markets, all the more successful it expects its Connecticut-based commodities business to become. That was the essence of what Sempra LNG and trading executives told the Wachovia Securities LNG Conference Nov. 13 in Houston.

Flexible destination liquefied natural gas (LNG) contracts, pipeline/storage inventory, a first-rate commodity trading unit and its newly found international banking partner have made Sempra Energy a global energy player, and the faster that LNG joins the global commodity markets, all the more successful it expects its Connecticut-based commodities business to become. That was the essence of what Sempra LNG and trading executives told the Wachovia Securities LNG Conference last Tuesday in Houston.

FERC regulations pertaining to the release of interstate natural gas pipeline capacity should not be strictly applied in Georgia because the state’s deregulated gas market is unlike markets in other states, said Georgia regulator Stan Wise.

FERC regulations pertaining to the release of interstate natural gas pipeline capacity should not be strictly applied in Georgia because the state’s deregulated gas market is unlike markets in other states, said Georgia regulator Stan Wise.