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The head of a major Pennsylvania water utility sees a two-fer in convincing Marcellus Shale operators to replace trucks with pipelines to supply water for fracking, thereby saving roads and supplying piped water to rural customers.

Riding the Bakken shale rush, North Dakota appears in a good position to jump up to the second biggest oil producing state in the nation behind only Texas. If the upper Midwest state achieves that status next year as expected, it would leapfrog over both Alaska and California, something that would have been unthinkable five years ago.

The head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) confirmed last week that the final rule on restricting excessive speculation in the derivatives market will be on the agenda at its Tuesday meeting.

The head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Tuesday confirmed that the final rule on restricting excessive speculation in the derivatives market will be on the agenda at next week’s meeting.

Don’t expect the energy pie to get bigger, John Hanger, the former head of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), told a Pittsburgh audience last Thursday.

Don’t expect the energy pie to get bigger, John Hanger, the former head of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), told a Pittsburgh audience Thursday.

Shale basins have rewritten the book on natural gas supply, and now they’re turning the outlook for natural gas liquids (NGL) on its head. Next will be crude oil as the technology transfer to these plays takes hold in earnest, according to an analysis expected to be finished in about three weeks.

The head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last Thursday said the agency plans to grant the derivative market “exemptive relief” — for the second time this year — from the sweeping Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act.

The head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Thursday said the agency plans to grant the derivative market “exemptive relief” — for the second time this year — from the sweeping Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act.