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Natural gas futures prices charted a relatively tranquil pattern Thursday after the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) weekly storage report showed a 36 Bcf withdrawal from U.S. stocks that was in line with estimates.

Links between hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and earthquakes, and predicting and preventing the tremors, remain riddles requiring far more scientific study, according to a report commissioned by the British Columbia (BC) government.

If various regulatory and economic hurdles can be overcome, storage of produced natural gas through reinjection in the oil patch may prove to be a breakthrough for curbing flaring in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale, according to a state-sponsored report released Wednesday.

The Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday unveiled a long-awaited report demonstrating the feasibility of developing a natural gas liquids (NGL) storage hub in the Appalachian Basin that it says would increase supply and geographic diversity for the nation’s petrochemical and plastics industries.

U.S. oil and natural gas independents need to position themselves to survive and thrive as the domestic markets are overhauled and excess onshore production is exported to global markets, according to an analysis.

A series of natural gas explosions and fires that rocked three Massachusetts communities in September killing one man and damaging 131 structures may have been caused by gaps in construction work orders for the old system that were prepared by NiSource Inc. subsidiary Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

A healthy surge in finalizing offshore oil and natural gas projects is expected next year and likely will topple the onshore unconventional industry as the leader in spending, an analysis by Rystad Energy indicates.

Oil and natural gas production specialization, i.e. focusing on one area or play, is enabling operators in North America’s onshore to achieve more efficiencies and improve financial results, but the strategy over the longer term could in fact create significant risk from market volatility.

As potential demand destruction from Hurricane Florence continues to command the natural gas market’s attention, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported a 69 Bcf build for the week ended Sept. 7 that barely moved the needle.