Responding

Finally responding to the 40.2-cent drop in front-month natural gas futures values from last Thursday’s high of $4.983, cash point averages across the board came off significantly on Tuesday for Wednesday delivery.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) was responding Wednesday afternoon to a report of oil in Breton Sound near Venice, LA. The spill was said to be several miles long, but it was not known if it was oil.

Responding to President Obama’s call for federal agencies to streamline their regulations, the Interior Department last week said it plans to explore a “simplified market-based approach” for valuing oil and gas to calculate the billions of dollars in royalty payments that are owed each year to the federal government for production on publicly owned onshore and offshore property.

Responding to President Obama’s call for federal agencies to streamline their regulations, the Interior Department said it plans to explore a “simplified market-based approach” to determine the value of oil and natural gas for royalty purposes.

Responding to a natural gas explosion that caused six deaths and multiple injuries last year at an electric power plant in Middletown, CT, the state’s House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously approved a bill that would ban the use of “flammable gas to clean or blow the gas piping” of electric generating facilities.

Encana Corp.’s latest quarterly profits took it on the chin because of low natural gas prices, but the Calgary producer is responding with a realignment by transferring proven gas shale technology to liquids plays, advertising for partners to share costs in gassy northeast British Columbia (BC), and quietly acquiring an oily leasehold in Alberta’s Duvernay Shale.

Responding to concerns expressed by citizens, the government of Nova Scotia has begun a year-long review of environmental issues associated with hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking).

A story about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking), which was published by the New York Times last weekend, was “deliberately misleading,” the former chief of Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said Monday.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Thursday announced a two-pronged approach to responding to last September’s rupture of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) natural gas transmission pipeline in San Bruno, CA. One will look at whether the utility’s past handling of its pipeline systems warrants sanctions and fines.