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Atlas Pipeline Partners LP (APL) is making progress on several expansion projects but continues to exceed processing capacities and offload production to third-party plants, the Atlas Energy Inc. affiliate said Tuesday.

BP plc last Wednesday received a permit to drill in the Keathley Canyon of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), making it the first drilling permit approved for the producer since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig and subsequent oil spill in April 2010 (see NGI, April 26, 2010).

BP plc Wednesday received a permit to drill in the Keathley Canyon of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), making it the first drilling permit approved for the producer since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig and subsequent oil spill in April 2010 (see Daily GPI, April 22, 2010).

With a strong natural gas pipeline/storage infrastructure but limits on supply sources, Europe is putting more research and development into making synthetic methane from hydrogen, which some energy stakeholders think will be the future means of beefing up natural gas supplies. A number of large utilities are partnering with researchers in Germany who think this has commercial possibilities.

A plan unveiled by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Colorado on Monday that was 10 years in the making, which attempts to balance oil and gas exploration with other uses across a 2.4 million-acre swath of land in northwestern Colorado, is drawing criticism from conservation groups, landowners and energy producers.

In making his case for congressional action on natural gas use in transportation, the CEO of a California-based gas transportation fueling company recently told a House subcommittee that the added cost for heavy-duty natural gas-powered trucks is coming down and the NAT GAS Act (HR 1380) will help further reduce those added costs.

A group of Pennsylvania state lawmakers is proposing an impact fee on Marcellus Shale wells based upon the actual damage caused by natural gas operations in the state.

Shale basins have rewritten the book on natural gas supply, and now they’re turning the outlook for natural gas liquids (NGL) on its head. Next will be crude oil as the technology transfer to these plays takes hold in earnest, according to an analysis expected to be finished in about three weeks.

In making his case for congressional action on natural gas use in transportation, the CEO of a California-based gas transportation fueling company told a House subcommittee Thursday that the added cost for heavy-duty natural gas-powered trucks is coming down and the NAT GAS Act (HR 1380) to accelerate gas transportation fuel development will help further reduce those added costs.