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ExxonMobil Corp., the nation’s largest onshore natural gas producer, has acquired another 317,000 net acres in the Marcellus Shale, which nearly doubles its leasehold in the play.

Despite significant differences in the amount of natural gas marketed by individual companies and the effects of some major acquisitions, there was a 7.6 Bcf/d increase in the total amount of natural gas transacted by the 24 marketers that participated in both NGI’s 3Q2010 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking and NGI’s 3Q2009 survey.

Despite significant differences in the amount of natural gas marketed by individual companies and the effects of some major acquisitions, there was a 7.6 Bcf/d increase in the total amount of natural gas transacted by the 24 marketers who participated in both NGI’s 3Q2010 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking and NGI’s 3Q2009 survey.

Arctic natural gas has become an energy counterpart to the Northwest Territories diamonds marketed as Canadian Ice as a result of steeply hiked cost estimates for the proposed northern production and pipeline system.

Arctic natural gas has become an energy counterpart to the Northwest Territories diamonds marketed as Canadian Ice as a result of steeply hiked cost estimates for the proposed northern production and pipeline system.

The energy merchant sector has been rebuilt, stronger than ever — and those leading the parade are more than likely the large oil and natural gas producers that once used middlemen to market their natural gas. Also coming out of the closet as energy merchants under their own names are the bankers that used to finance the marketers.