Landmark

The natural gas industry may have been absent from the negotiating table when the House drafted its landmark climate change legislation, but it and its supporters are expected to be front and center when the Senate takes up a companion bill this fall, Washington, DC, sources say.

The natural gas industry may have been absent from the negotiating table when the House drafted its landmark climate change legislation, but it and its supporters are expected to be front and center when the Senate takes up a companion bill this fall, Washington, DC, sources say.

In a landmark discovery, high saturations of natural gas hydrates have been discovered within reservoir-quality sands in the Lower Tertiary of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) reported Thursday.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter last week was set to sign into law landmark regulations that overhaul rules for the state’s natural gas and oil drillers after the Colorado General Assembly officially approved the package on Wednesday.

In the next few days, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is expected to sign into law landmark regulations that overhaul rules for the state’s natural gas and oil drillers after the Colorado General Assembly officially approved the package on Wednesday.

In reaffirming its landmark Order 712 removing the maximum rate cap on short-term released capacity last Thursday, FERC offered several clarifications, but denied rehearing, continuing to exclude pipelines from the program, saying pipelines already have built-in flexibility in their ability to negotiate rates.

In reaffirming its landmark Order 712 removing the maximum rate cap on short-term released capacity Thursday, FERC offered several clarifications, but denied rehearing, continuing to exclude pipelines from the program, saying pipelines already have built-in flexibility in their ability to negotiate rates.

A landmark ruling by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has stopped an attempt by international merchants to parlay global trade in liquefied natural gas into relaxation of controls on sales of Canadian production to the United States.

A landmark ruling by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has stopped an attempt by international merchants to parlay global trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) into relaxation of controls on sales of Canadian production to the United States.