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Researchers at Columbia University said earthquakes that occur on the other side of the world could create smaller temblors near wastewater injection sites in the United States.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Thursday is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to head up the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

CenterPoint Energy Inc., OGE Energy Corp. and ArcLight Capital Partners are forming a new midstream master limited partnership (MLP) that will start off with 8,400 miles of interstate and 2,300 miles of intrastate pipelines in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana, plus some other assets.

An estimated 56 million barrels of water are produced as a result of onshore oil and natural gas development everyday, and while the quality is poor, most of the contaminants occur naturally, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. Only some of the contaminants are added through drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and pumping oil and gas.

An estimated 56 million barrels of water are produced as a result of onshore oil and natural gas development every day, and while the quality is poor, most of the contaminants occur naturally in the produced water, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

Recent FERC investigations of interstate natural gas pipelines for significant over-earnings have so far been credit-neutral and the over-earnings are not likely to occur in the foreseeable future due to weaker market conditions, said Moody’s Investors Service in a new report.

Recent investigations by FERC of interstate natural gas pipelines for significant over-earnings so far have been credit-neutral and the over-earnings are not likely to occur in the foreseeable future due to weaker market conditions, said Moody’s Investors Service in a new report.

Ruby Pipeline said Thursday night that based on its best available information, the return to service on its system is anticipated to occur during the gas day of Sunday (Dec. 18). The restoration plan includes ramping up operationally available capacity over the course of about three days to allow Ruby to restore the linepack necessary to schedule and deliver service at firm contracted capacity, the pipeline said. The plan had three phases: 1) Ruby would accept nominations for Sunday during the Intraday 2 nomination cycle (Cycle 4) with an estimated operationally available capacity of 330 MMcf/d; 2) Ruby would accept nominations for Monday, starting with the Evening nomination cycle (Cycle 2) with an estimated operationally available capacity of 660 MMcf/d; and 3) for Tuesday’s gas day, Ruby anticipates being able to schedule firm contracted capacity, but it depends on acceptable linepack restoration.

Quicksilver Resources Inc. has priced a public offering of 6,967,844 units of BreitBurn Energy Partners LP. The units are offered at $16.52 each. Closing is expected to occur on or about Dec. 5. Analysts at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. said the move was expected as part of Quicksilver’s liquidity plan (see Daily GPI, Oct. 21) and a “smart move to take advantage of an open equity/capital markets window.” Underwriters have been granted a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,045,177 additional units from Quicksilver to cover over allotments.