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The moderate weather that has so far been the calling card of this winter will give way to lower temperatures, with colder-than-normal temperatures dominating the nation’s northern tier beginning in February, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based Weather Services International (WSI).

Commerce City, CO, has invoked a 30-day “time out” on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to give city officials time to further discuss their concerns with the oil and gas industry. City officials took the action late Monday in lieu of a proposed six-month ban on fracking.

Bowing to pressure from customers, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) decided Monday to give in to individual customers who insist that they cannot tolerate — for health or other reasons — smart meters, recommending to state regulators that a proposed opt-out provision be expanded to include use of analog meters.

If Europe develops its shale gas resources, it will likely take its sweet time about it, according to a new report from Ernst and Young Global Ltd.

Williams midstream partnership is negotiating to buy Delphi Midstream Partners LLC, which among other things would give the natural gas operator ownership of the Laser Gathering System and other facilities that serve the Marcellus Shale.

Tulsa-based Williams Partner LP is negotiating to buy Delphi Midstream Partners LLC, which among other things would give the natural gas operator ownership of the Laser Gathering System and other facilities that serve the Marcellus Shale.

Enbridge Inc. on Thursday acquired another 13.3% stake in the Cabin Gas Plant development east of Fort Nelson, BC, which would give it a 71% stake in the project intended to serve growing natural gas output from the Horn River Basin.

Enbridge Inc. has acquired another 13.3% stake in the Cabin Gas Plant development east of Fort Nelson, BC, which would give it a 71% stake in the project intended to serve growing natural gas output from the Horn River Basin. In October Enbridge paid Encana Corp., the project’s operator, C$220 million to acquire a 57.7% majority stake in the Cabin project. Details of the latest acquisition weren’t disclosed but Enbridge said the transaction was “on the same terms” as the one with Encana. The plant, which has been sanctioned by producers and received regulatory approval, is under construction and expected to be in-service in late 2012. Phase 1 is to have 400 MMcf/d of processing capacity. Phase 2, expected to be ready for service in the second half of 2014, would add an additional 400 MMcf/d of capacity.

Two transactions to monetize a portion of Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s 1.5 million net acres in the Utica Shale of Ohio are expected to give the independent about $3.4 billion in proceeds, CEO Aubrey McClendon said late Thursday.