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With two weeks still left in 2010, Range Resources Corp. said Wednesday it has more than doubled its Marcellus Shale production year/year.

With only one month left to finish their annual scorecard, Canadian natural gas exporters are poised to chalk up a return to better times after a bruising fall.

With only one month left to finish their annual scorecard, Canadian natural gas exporters are poised to chalk up a return to better times after a bruising fall.

With only a few hundred absentee ballots left to be counted, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, appears to have pulled off a come-from-behind win, keeping her seat with the first successful Senate write-in campaign in more than 50 years, and beating the Tea Party candidate endorsed by former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

One New York county in the midst of the Marcellus Shale may be looking to promote natural gas drilling in an effort to regain jobs that have left the area since the Empire State instituted a de facto moratorium on drilling two years ago.

With no guidance coming from Tuesday’s neutral screen action, cash market traders were left to their own devices on Wednesday. Some Midwest averages and almost all western averages continued Tuesday’s run higher with additions of a few pennies to a little more than 15 cents, while the rest of the country saw small pullbacks of up to a nickel.

Only a couple of Western Canadian points where temperatures were staying fairly mild got left out of heat-driven gains at all other locations Monday. The previous Friday’s advance of 9.6 cents by September futures gave an added boost to the cash market.

Chevron Corp. is not being left behind in the race to acquire North American unconventional natural gas assets, thank you. But until it can make money by developing the resource base it now holds, those gassy development plans will be shelved, Vice Chairman George Kirkland told financial analysts on Friday.

Chevron Corp. is not being left behind in the race to acquire North American unconventional natural gas assets, thank you. But until it can make money by developing the resource base it now holds, those gassy development plans will be shelved, Vice Chairman George Kirkland told financial analysts on Friday.