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MarkWest Energy Partners is getting ready for “explosive growth” in the Northeast “in 2013 and beyond,” CEO Frank Semple said Thursday. Next year, natural gas liquids (NGL) processing in the Marcellus and Utica shales combined should increase to 4.8 Bcf/d from 2.7 Bcf/d to serve producer customers.

Producer Antero Resources, which recently refocused all of its efforts on Appalachia, has signed up for Utica Shale processing, fractionation and marketing services with MarkWest Utica EMG LLC.

Even as a number of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act regulatory rules remain in limbo, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) said early last week that it has completed the transition on its exchange of cleared over-the-counter (OTC) energy swaps to futures.

Even as a number of Dodd-Frank regulatory rules remain in limbo, IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) said Tuesday it has completed the transition on its exchange of cleared over-the-counter (OTC) energy swaps to futures.

As the clock winds down on the deadlines to comply with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform act, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Monday is expected to clear up questions in the market pertaining to the deadline for registration of swap dealers.

The New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) has taken disciplinary action against and penalized two exchange members and one non-member for fraudulent trading of natural gas and oil futures.

The final rules under the Dodd-Frank Act to be issued in the near future would make clear that only parties that “make markets for others on a routine basis,” would be subject to rules governing swap dealers, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler told a congressional committee last Wednesday.

The final rules under the Dodd-Frank Act to be issued in the near future would make clear that only parties that “make markets for others on a routine basis,” would be subject to rules governing swap dealers, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler told a congressional committee Wednesday.

The Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) has elected a top Chesapeake Energy Corp. executive to lead the industry coalition into 2012.