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Units of General Electric (GE) and TransCanada Corp. said they are working to improve the reliability and cost-effectiveness of natural gas-fired power generation at two facilities TransCanada operates on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. GE’s technology called FlexEfficiency Advantage Advanced Gas Path (AGP) is being deployed at TransCanada’s Ravenswood power plant in New York state and its Mackay River cogeneration facility in Alberta, Canada. AGP technology combining hardware and software advances has been installed on one gas-fired GE 7F 3-series turbine at each plant, the companies said. As result, the Ravenswood combined-cycle gas-fired unit has increased its output by 5%, and the cogeneration unit in Alberta has experienced a 10% boost in output, according to the companies. Along with efficiency increases of 1% and 2%, respectively, at the two plants, TransCanada said it expected to realize $900,000 in annual fuel savings.

Crestwood Midstream Partners LP is buying privately-held Arrow Midstream Holdings LLC for $750 million, expanding its focus in the Bakken Shale and building on its just-completed merger with Inergy Midstream.

Amplifying favorable comments made earlier this year by Gov. Jerry Brown regarding future oil and natural gas development in California, the head of the state department responsible for overseeing drilling said recently that Brown supports the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

Regency Energy Partners LP plans to buy PVR Partners LP in a $5.6 billion deal (including $1.8 billion of debt) to create a natural gas gathering and processing giant with a presence in Appalachia, West Texas, South Texas, the Midcontinent and North Louisiana.

One of the challenges to widespread adoption of natural gas vehicles (NGV) has been the weight of the metal tanks needed to hold compressed natural gas (CNG). A researcher at Houston’s Rice University might have hit upon an answer.

The venerable Permian Basin, which has seen its share of booms and busts in its 86-year production history, is booming beyond most of the industry’s recognition, said Alan Chambers, senior gas buyer for Atmos Energy Corp. and a native of the Permian region.

Range Resources Corp. says it is complying with a court order to obtain and provide information for all of the chemicals used at a Marcellus Shale drilling and impoundment site in Washington County, PA, but it took issue with media reports suggesting that the company doesn’t know what chemicals are used in its hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations.

Physical natural gas for Friday delivery on average rose 2 cents Thursday as most traders elected to put trades to bed prior to the release of typically market-moving storage data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Canadian hopes to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) rely on oil prices to stay high and overseas supply contracts to uphold value parity between the two energy commodities, an industry analyst said Thursday.