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Consumers and energy industry executives don’t often agree on the solutions needed to solve U.S. energy challenges, but a survey commissioned by Deloitte & Touche found some surprising areas of agreement.

With liquefied natural gas (LNG) project proposals often running into onshore siting controversies, ExxonMobil Corp. on Tuesday unveiled plans for a $1 billion-plus floating LNG receiving terminal that it believes will create a gateway to global supplies of natural gas to help meet the growing energy needs of New Jersey and New York.

Looking very similar to a carbon copy of the previous day’s market, prices fell at a large majority of points (most often by double digits) Tuesday, with the firming exceptions occurring at a few Rockies points. The same influences remained in play: a lack of substantive cooling load for gas in many areas and a continuing slide by August futures.

Commodity is king when it comes to liquefied natural gas (LNG). In today’s market the companies that control LNG supply are calling the shots. And more often not, national oil companies are “getting smarter” and not giving up control of their natural gas/LNG supplies.

Commodity is king when it comes to liquefied natural gas (LNG). In today’s market the companies that control LNG supply are calling the shots. And more often not, national oil companies are “getting smarter” and not giving up control of their natural gas/LNG supplies.

Often at odds in the past when utility takeover measures regularly appeared on the municipal ballot, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and the City/County of San Francisco Tuesday continued their newfound lovefest, joining hands in a new collaborative effort to deliver energy savings/efficiency programs to residential and commercial customers in the utility’s headquarters city. Running through next year, the three-year San Francisco Energy Watch effort will spend up to $11.5 million to achieve millions more dollars in savings, the utility said.

In many places they often say if you don’t like the weather, wait and it will change. From hurricanes to too-warm winters, weather has wreaked havoc on the gas industry in the last couple of years and it continues to dominate gas markets this season.

In many places they often say if you don’t like the weather, wait and it will change. From hurricanes to too-warm winters, weather has wreaked havoc on the gas industry in the last couple of years and it continues to dominate gas markets this season.

Much is said, and often, about how escalating decline rates have cast U.S. gas producers onto an ever-accelerating treadmill. In last week’s “Stat of the Week” from Raymond James & Associates Inc., a trio of analysts pointed at decline rates with alarm and, of course, bullishness. “The treadmill is running too fast,” the analysts said, while conceding that this view is a contrarian one in some quarters.