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New Jersey isn’t even a player in the shale game, but lawmakers there have decided to leave the stadium altogether.

New Jersey isn’t even a player in the shale game, but lawmakers there have decided to leave the stadium altogether.

The United States in 2010 led the world in natural gas production for the second year in a row, boosted by massive shale deposits, according to the latest statistical review by BP plc.

A bill in a Texas House committee if passed would repeal a natural gas drilling tax break that benefits the vast majority of wells in the state’s shale gas plays. The bill’s sponsor says the incentive has outlived its usefulness, but an industry advocate claims its repeal would be a gas production- and job-killer.

The natural gas oversupply bubble, driven by gigantic growth in shale gas, could spread around the world, becoming a game changer for almost everyone, according to Jim Duncan, director for market analysis at ConocoPhillips Gas and Power.

The natural gas oversupply bubble, driven by gigantic growth in shale gas, could spread around the world, becoming a game changer for almost everyone.

Abundant supplies have changed the North American natural gas game, and EnCana Corp. said last week that as a low-cost producer with large positions in unconventional gas basins it is poised to double its production in the next five years.

Abundant supplies have changed the North American natural gas game, and EnCana Corp. said Tuesday that as a low-cost producer with large positions in unconventional gas basins it is poised to double its production in the next five years.

Abundant supplies have changed the North American natural gas game, and EnCana Corp. said Tuesday that as a low-cost producer with large positions in unconventional gas basins it is poised to double its production in the next five years.