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Regency Energy Partners LP plans to buy PVR Partners LP in a $5.6 billion deal (including $1.8 billion of debt) to create a natural gas gathering and processing giant with a presence in Appalachia, West Texas, South Texas, the Midcontinent and North Louisiana.

One of the challenges to widespread adoption of natural gas vehicles (NGV) has been the weight of the metal tanks needed to hold compressed natural gas (CNG). A researcher at Houston’s Rice University might have hit upon an answer.

Colorado officials said Tuesday they have found no evidence of contamination from oil or natural gas spills in water samples taken from rivers and streams affected by last month’s flooding.

Physical natural gas for Friday delivery on average rose 2 cents Thursday as most traders elected to put trades to bed prior to the release of typically market-moving storage data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Canadian hopes to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) rely on oil prices to stay high and overseas supply contracts to uphold value parity between the two energy commodities, an industry analyst said Thursday.

The shale gas revolution and and planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to foreign nations have elevated the United States’ position on the global energy stage, said European and Asian energy representatives Thursday. They urged U.S. House lawmakers to seize the new energy tool for diplomatic purposes and to aid allies.

Regulators with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) are drafting rules governing centralized earthen impoundments that would temporarily hold wastewater from oil and gas drilling.

If a variety of industry experts are correct, the western United States is on the brink of an upsurge in natural gas demand outstripping supply and resulting in a need for a new wave of infrastructure being built from the Rockies westward.

Chevron Corp.’s U.S. upstream production is holding steady from a year ago, with natural gas output higher and liquids holding steady, the operator said late Wednesday in an interim 3Q2013 report.