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Fort Worth, TX-based Quicksilver Resources Inc. has entered into a confidentiality agreement with a group of investors that includes Quicksilver CEO Glenn Darden, Chairman Thomas Darden and the Darden family-controlled Quicksilver Energy LP. The group may seek to take Quicksilver private.

Fort Worth, TX-based Quicksilver Resources Inc. has entered into a confidentiality agreement with a group of investors that includes Quicksilver CEO Glenn Darden, Chairman Thomas Darden and the Darden family-controlled Quicksilver Energy LP. The group may seek to take Quicksilver private.

Pennsylvania’s capital budget for fiscal year 2010-2011, which was approved Monday by the state’s House and last week by the state’s Senate, includes several Marcellus Shale-related infrastructure projects.

With a recent history that includes emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy two years ago, Calpine Corp. is focused on a post-coal electric generation future.

Apache Corp. on Tuesday agreed to pay BP plc $7 billion for a set of assets that includes acreage and infrastructure in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, “substantially all” of the upstream natural gas business in western Alberta and British Columbia, and property in Egypt’s Western Desert.

BP plc has launched a strategic plan to help fund Gulf of Mexico (GOM) recovery efforts, which includes a $7.5 billion reduction in dividends and $10 billion worth of asset sales. However, don’t expect BP to sell any of its properties — or its shareholders — short, energy analysts said last week.

Obama administration officials have put hurdles in the way of “meaningful” financial regulatory reform, which includes first-time regulation of the nearly $500 trillion over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, said a Republican senator Tuesday.

Obama administration officials have put hurdles in the way of “meaningful” financial regulatory reform, which includes first-time regulation of the nearly $500 trillion over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, said a Republican senator Tuesday.

The Natural Gas Council (NGC), which includes the major gas associations in Washington, DC, last Wednesday said it opposed Democratic legislation that would strip FERC of its existing authority to review, approve and site liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals.