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Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Monday she plans to ask the U.S. Energy Information Administration for an economic analysis for lifting the U.S. crude oil export ban, and she also renewed a call to streamline regulations on condensate exports.

Underlying the most recent proposal by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to eliminate the long-standing ban on exporting U.S. crude oil are some infrastructure and regulatory bottlenecks, particularly in the West, a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee staff member for Murkowski told NGI’s Shale Daily on Wednesday.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the top Republican on the Senate Energy Committee, called for an end to restrictions on crude oil and condensate exports on Tuesday. She urged President Obama to issue executive orders to change the nation’s energy export policies.

Never mind leveling it; somebody just upset the playing field for national energy legislation in the next two years.

Japan and Canada will engage in talks over the potential for future exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Canada to Japan, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported.

Former Colorado regulator Ron Binz, nominated for FERC chairman, said he was bullish on natural gas and expects applications for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals to proceed through the agency as usual.

The Department of Energy (DOE) should move forward on all liquefied natural gas (LNG) export applications “in a timely manner,” development of natural gas resources should be a priority for the United States, and lawmakers should help clear the way by opposing any polices that would delay or prohibit LNG exports, according to areportissued Tuesday by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

With the prospect for thousands of construction and manufacturing jobs, legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate Wednesday to speed up a final federal decision on the stalled C$7 billion, 1,700-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline proposed to run from Alberta, Canada to Gulf of Mexico (GOM) refineries in the United States.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who waged a successful campaign last fall to serve another term in the Senate, has been confirmed as the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Resources Committee by the panel’s Republican members. The selection was ratified by the full Senate Republican Caucus at a luncheon Tuesday.