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A citizens group is calling on Murrysville, PA, to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the borough, located about 20 miles east of Pittsburgh in Westmoreland County.

Las Vegas, NV-based local distribution company (LDC) Southwest Gas Corp. is sitting pretty this winter and for the foreseeable future in terms of adequate natural gas supplies. The gas-only utility’s three-state service area divides into three regions, each with a different set of supply basins, and the shale gas boom affects two of those operating areas.

BP plc has agreed to not pursue further oil and gas development on leases it owns near Montana’s North Fork of the Flathead River, including one property located at the entrance of the Glacier National Park, said Montana’s Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester.

BP plc has agreed to not pursue further oil and gas development on leases it owns near Montana’s North Fork of the Flathead River, including one property located at the entrance of the Glacier National Park, said Montana’s Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester.

Natural gas exploration and production began in urban areas of the Barnett Shale in North Texas nearly a decade ago, and early municipal regulation of the activity was less onerous than it is today, an industry lawyer told a Texas House committee Thursday.

Sempra Energy unit Sempra Pipelines & Storage said the first of two caverns at its Mississippi Hub gas storage facility has entered service.

MDU Resources Group’s production subsidiary Fidelity Exploration & Production Co. said it has acquired producing natural gas properties located in the Green River Basin in Sweetwater and Carbon counties in southwest Wyoming for $113 million from an undisclosed seller.

MDU Resources Group’s production subsidiary Fidelity Exploration & Production Co. said it has acquired producing natural gas properties located in the Green River Basin in Sweetwater and Carbon counties in southwest Wyoming for $113 million from an undisclosed seller.

MDU Resources Group’s production subsidiary Fidelity Exploration & Production Co. said it has acquired producing natural gas properties located in the Green River Basin in Sweetwater and Carbon counties in southwest Wyoming for $113 million from an undisclosed seller.