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Pangea LNG (North America) Holdings LLC, a relative latecomer to the North American liquefied natural gas (LNG) export race, is approaching regulators, and the market, with a smaller, more scalable project on the Texas Gulf Coast that the company’s CEO, an LNG veteran, says has better odds of coming to fruition than some mega project competitors.

A township in western Pennsylvania adopted a conditional use ordinance on Wednesday, the latest development in a kerfuffle with its dominant driller, Range Resources Corp.

Supporters of natural gas vehicles (NGV) aren’t going after the personal vehicle market, at least not initially, but they see a sizeable market share in just replacing diesel fuel in fleet vehicles and the over-the-road diesel market.

Supporters of natural gas vehicles (NGV) aren’t going after the personal vehicle market, at least not initially, but they see a sizeable market share in just replacing diesel fuel in fleet vehicles and the over-the-road diesel market.

Supporters of natural gas vehicles (NGV) aren’t going after the personal vehicle market, at least not initially, but they see a sizeable market share in just replacing diesel fuel in fleet vehicles and the over-the-road diesel market.

FERC Friday reported that it lost a binder containing the personal information of 2,810 employees, including commissioners, who had left government service between October 1983 and August 2007.

Diversified energy and utility holding company Black Hills Corp. said Wednesday that CFO Mark Thies resigned for “personal considerations and health” effective Friday. CEO David Emery will fill in as CFO for an interim period. Emery said the Rapid City, SD-based company has retained an executive search firm to assist in identifying a replacement for Thies, who had been with the company 10 years. The company has retail and wholesale utility and merchant energy businesses in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and other states.

PNM Resources Inc. and Cascade Investment LLC, the personal investment vehicle of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, have agreed to create a niche power trading company to serve expanding U.S. markets throughout the Southwest, Texas and the West. Under the terms of the agreement, PNM and a Cascade subsidiary will jointly hold a 50% stake in the unregulated company, temporarily named EnergyCo LLC.

In just three years, the energy merchant sector has evolved from an Internet-based, North American-focused Enron-dominated industry into something the new players say is smaller, but better, where success may turn on a telephone call instead of computer screen, and where future business trades may be global instead of regional.