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As gas-fired power plants take up the slack for substantial retiring coal-fired generation and gas producers are able to back off from drilling merely to hold production, gas prices will get a lift, Credit Suisse Commodity Research Director Teri Viswanath told NGI Tuesday.

Enterprise Products Partners LP Tuesday announced several projects to extend and expand its natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) infrastructure in South Texas and Mont Belvieu, TX, to accommodate growing volumes from the Eagle Ford Shale play.

Natural gas will be a leader in reducing U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next several decades, mostly by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with combined-cycle gas generation, according to a comprehensive study issued Friday by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study group.

Natural gas will be a leader in reducing U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next several decades, mostly by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with combined-cycle gas generation, according to a comprehensive study issued Friday by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study group.

ANR said Friday that the owners and/or operators of the processing plants that service ANR’s Southeast Area have informed the pipeline that based on their current analysis of processing economics for June; all will process gas absent the issuance of a gas quality requirement by ANR. The pipeline said it has determined that it will not be necessary to issue a hydrocarbon dew point limitation in the Southeast or Southwest areas in order to provide safe and reliable service.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to beat back criticism Monday of a proposal he made in last month’s fiscal revisions aimed at reversing the state’s worsening budget crisis by securing an additional $100 million of annual revenues from the limited opening of drilling offshore Santa Barbara. Schwarzenegger’s proposal was tied to the dismantling of four existing offshore platforms in the area.

In a decision that could affect hundreds of power plants and other sources of air pollution nationwide, a federal appeals court recently struck down an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule preventing states and local governments from imposing stricter emissions-monitoring limits than those set down by federal authorities.

In a decision that could affect hundreds of power plants and other sources of air pollution nationwide, a federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule preventing states and local governments from imposing stricter emissions-monitoring limits than those set down by federal authorities.

Tennessee said it was allowing all production behind the Grand Chenier and Sabine processing plants that had been ordered to shut in Monday due to Tropical Storm Edouard to resume flows Wednesday.