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Saying it has put last year’s Gulf of Mexico (GOM) deepwater well blowout with BP plc behind them, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. senior officials Tuesday tried to look past third quarter red ink to what they consider hot domestic shale and African liquefied natural gas (LNG) prospects.

Fort Worth City Council members got an earful last Tuesday night from a standing-room-only audience about a proposal to tighten drilling restrictions in the Barnett Shale town. Protected use areas, multiple well pad site permitting and saltwater disposal are among the items being weighed.

Fort Worth City Council members got an earful Tuesday night from a standing-room-only audience about a proposal to tighten drilling restrictions in the Barnett Shale town. Protected use areas, multiple well pad site permitting and saltwater disposal are among the items being weighed.

As China continues to look abroad to secure its energy future, particularly with natural gas, there is room for the United States to play a larger role in its plans, according to consultancy Ernst & Young (E&Y).

As China continues to look abroad to secure its energy future, particularly with natural gas, there is room for the United States to play a larger role in its plans, according to consultancy Ernst & Young (E&Y).

Enterprise Products Partners LP and Entergy Transfer Partners LP for now have abandoned plans to construct a 584-mile crude oil pipeline from Cushing, OK, to Houston, Enterprise said Monday.

While it kicks off a long-term partnership with Chesapeake Energy Corp. on a drilling program in the Utica Shale of eastern Ohio, EV Energy Partners LP (EVEP) is preparing its own exploration campaign in the region.

A subsidiary of DTE Energy Co. has signed a long-term agreement with a unit of Southwestern Energy Co. to build and operate a natural gas gathering system to carry output from the producer’s Marcellus Shale operations to Millennium Pipeline Co. in Broome County, NY, and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. in Susquehanna County, PA.

With the Marcellus Shale as its guide, exploration and production (E&P) companies are pressing Quebec officials to give them some running room to develop the Utica Shale, a deep gassy play that extends across the St. Lawrence Lowlands and into the Lower 48 states.