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As part of its proposed joint venture diesel refinery slated to process 20,000 b/d of Bakken crude oil by next year, Bismarck, ND-based MDU Resources Group has a strategy aimed at its exploration and production (E&P) and midstream infrastructure businesses sharing in the continuing boom in its home state.

Rosetta Resources Inc. has agreed to pay Comstock Resources Inc. $768 million for a package of Permian Basin oil and liquids-rich assets, giving it entry into the West Texas basin.

Consolidated Edison Co. (Con Ed) of New York is projecting natural gas demand from utility conversions will grow 3.5% through 2017, requiring substantial new pipeline capacity to be up and running, according to the director of the utility’s gas supply.

Consolidated Edison Co. (Con Ed) of New York is projecting natural gas demand from utility conversions will grow 3.5% through 2017, requiring substantial new pipeline capacity to be up and running, according to the director of the utility’s gas supply.

During 2012 Goodrich Petroleum will continue to emphasize oil-directed drilling over natural gas with the majority of its focus, and spending, on the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas, the company said Wednesday.

Expecting continued growth in production and profits, Houston-based Ultra Petroleum Corp. is projecting that its realized natural gas prices will rise to the $5 range this year and hit that level again in 2013, Ultra CEO Mike Watford told the Jefferies Global Energy Conference last Wednesday.

Expecting continued growth in production and profits, Houston-based Ultra Petroleum Corp. is projecting that its realized natural gas prices will rise to the $5 range this year and hit that level again in 2013, Ultra CEO Mike Watford told the Jefferies Global Energy Conference Wednesday.

Shale gas prospects in British Columbia (BC) appear to be the sole “bright spot” on a darkening natural gas landscape projecting a continuing decline in Canada’s overall gas production in the years ahead, according to a report recently released by the Conference Board of Canada.

Projecting flat demand for natural gas in the state for the next two decades, the latest California Gas Report released by the state’s major utilities and regulators essentially makes it difficult to support new interstate pipeline capacity, a former regulatory attorney told the Law Seminars International “Energy in California” conference last week in San Francisco.