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July natural gas futures inched higher Tuesday as traders see the market needing to overcome difficult technical resistance before any trend higher can be resumed while others see the market at a turning point. At the close July had advanced a miserly 0.4 cent to $4.831 and August futures were up 0.1 cent to $4.858. July crude oil rose 8 cents to $99.09/bbl.

Chevron Corp.’s portfolio is now in a position to sustain growth through the rest of the decade and is “not particularly needing to do a large transaction” in a North American shale gas play, CEO John Watson said Friday.

Chevron Corp.’s portfolio is now in a position to sustain growth through the rest of the decade and is “not particularly needing to do a large transaction” in a North American shale gas play, CEO John Watson said Friday.

Chevron Corp.’s portfolio is now in a position to sustain growth through the rest of the decade and is “not particularly needing to do a large transaction” in a North American shale gas play, CEO John Watson said Friday.

Proponents of three competing liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Oregon made their case for the Pacific Northwest needing more natural gas in the decades to come, and tried to differentiate their spins on LNG’s key role in providing more gas-on-gas competition in the region during the sixth annual regional energy conference June 3-4 sponsored by Northwest Gas Association and Northwest Industrial Gas Users.

Proponents of three competing liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Oregon made their case for the Pacific Northwest needing more natural gas in the decades to come, and tried to differentiate their spins on LNG’s key role in providing more gas-on-gas competition in the region during the sixth annual regional energy conference sponsored by Northwest Gas Association and Northwest Industrial Gas Users.

In response to significant interest from customers needing transportation capacity to meet the demands of the growing Northeast market, Algonquin Gas Transmission will hold a binding open season March 7-20 on its proposed East-to-West Expansion.

As one of its primary segments among large industrial customers needing energy services, San Diego-based Sempra Energy Solutions announced Thursday it had secured another series of four multi-year, multi-million-dollar merchant energy services contracts with federal facilities in four states — California, Colorado, Florida and Utah — and Puerto Rico. In total, the contracts are estimated to be worth $46.5 million, the company said.

Needing to expand capacity and increase deliverability to itscustomers in Franklin County, MA, Berkshire Gas Co. hassuccessfully petitioned the state’s Energy Facilities Siting Boardfor the rights to build an LNG storage facility in Whatley, MA. Theboard ruled in favor of the $5 million facility last week.Berkshire will begin construction immediately and hopes to have thefacility running by late December.