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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is initiating an environmental analysis evaluating the impacts of seismic and other geological and geophysical activities involved in oil and gas development and the potential siting of wind turbines in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf and adjacent state waters.

Strategic investors and foreign buyers continue to press for deals in U.S. unconventional fields, but higher prices have pushed private equity (PE) momentarily to the sidelines, according to PwC US.

Investor groups for the fourth year in a row are urging some of the largest natural gas and oil producers in the United States to disclose information about how the risks involved with unconventional drilling operations are managed and measured. Some explorers also have been called on to disclose fugitive emissions from natural gas transmission.

Investor groups for the fourth year in a row are urging some of the largest natural gas and oil producers in the United States to disclose information about how the risks involved with unconventional drilling operations are managed and measured. Some explorers also have been called on to disclose fugitive emissions from natural gas transmission.

Four environmental groups have filed suit against the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) seeking to reduce the amount of drilling approved for Gasco Energy Inc. in Utah’s remote Uinta Basin shale formation.

The Marcellus and Utica shales aren’t drawing near the attention they have been, according to a review of 4Q2012 mergers and transactions (M&A) in the United States by PwC US.

Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) is buying three crude oil rail terminals in the Eagle Ford, Bakken and Niobrara producing regions, as well as various contractual arrangements, from U.S. Development Group (USD) for $500 million.

In response to collapses at Peregrine Financial Group Inc. (see NGI, July 23) and MF Global Holdings Ltd. (see NGI, Nov. 14, 2011), both of which involved the misappropriation of customer funds, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last week voted out a proposed set of rules to provide a greater level of protection to customers that participate in the futures and swaps markets, including the protection of customer funds held by futures commission merchants (FCM) and derivatives clearing organizations.

In response to collapses at Peregrine Financial Group Inc. (see Daily GPI, July 11) and MF Global Holdings Ltd. (see Daily GPI, Nov. 14, 2011), both of which involved the misappropriation of customer funds, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Monday voted out a proposed set of rules to provide a greater level of protection to customers that participate in the futures and swaps markets, including the protection of customer funds held by futures commission merchants (FCM) and derivatives clearing organizations.