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Developing domestic gas resources could boost gross domestic product by 5% a year for the next 40 years, creating more jobs and powering the economy, says a former Shell Oil Co. chief.

Developing domestic gas resources could boost gross domestic product by 5% a year for the next 40 years, creating more jobs and powering the economy, says a former Shell Oil Co. chief.

Besides powering a manufacturing/petrochemical industry renaissance, North America’s abundant supply of shale gas is fueling a war of words over the merits of energy exports versus domestic usage.

Pennsylvania midstream operator UGI Energy Services Inc. on Wednesday launched plans to replace the diesel now powering its Marcellus Shale drilling fleet with liquefied natural gas (LNG). UGI’s plan mirrors a pilot initiated by EQT Corp. earlier this month to convert its Marcellus diesel rigs (see Shale Daily, July 6).

Would you believe ground up corncobs and natural gas do mix, and what’s more they have a future in powering delivery trucks around the country? That’s according to Missouri University’s (MU) Office of Technology Management and Industry Relations (TMIR), which recently negotiated an agreement for the manufacture of natural gas tanks made of carbonized corncob briquettes, nicknamed “Missouri hockey pucks,” using a process developed by university researchers.

Would you believe ground up corncobs and natural gas do mix, and what’s more they have a future in powering delivery trucks around the country? That’s according to Missouri University’s (MU) Office of Technology Management and Industry Relations (TMIR), which recently negotiated an agreement for the manufacture of natural gas tanks made of carbonized corncob briquettes, nicknamed “Missouri hockey pucks,” using a process developed by university researchers.

Electric deregulation is moving faster in the virtual world thanthe real world. While power choice has yet to sweep the land, threeproviders of Internet-based power trading are expanding/upgradingtheir systems to meet demand and improve system flexibility.

Electric deregulation is moving faster in the virtual world thanthe real world. While power choice has yet to sweep the land, threeproviders of Internet-based power trading are expanding/upgradingtheir systems to meet demand and improve system flexibility.

CMS Energy Corp. last week continued building what’s shaping up to be a Powder River Basin dynasty. Subsidiary CMS Continental Natural Gas agreed with Pennaco Energy, and CMS corporate affiliate CMS Oil and Gas to gather coal-bed methane gas from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana.