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JERA Co. Inc. said its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo produced in the contiguous United States arrived at the Joetsu LNG Terminal of Chubu Electric Power Co. last Friday. It is the first Lower 48 U.S. LNG cargo to be delivered to Japan, the company said. JERA and Cheniere Marketing International LLP had entered into a sale and purchase agreement for the cargo, which was loaded onto the LNG vessel Oak Spiritat Cheniere Energy Partners LP’s Sabine Pass LNG Terminal in Louisiana on Dec. 7. The voyage to Japan via the Panama Canal took about one month. JERA said it believes the purchase of US LNG will contribute to a stable energy supply in Japan through the diversification of procurement regions and LNG price indices. JERA said it will establish an “LNG procurement portfolio that can flexibly respond to changes in the business environment by increasing its procurement ratio of LNG which is free from destination restrictions, through projects such as the Freeport LNG Project in [the United States].”

More than 48 million acres offshore Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi will be offered for oil and natural gas exploration and development in the next federal lease sale scheduled for March, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said Thursday.

Eclipse Resources Corp. has completed the sale of 9,900 net acres in Southeast Ohio for $63.8 million to an undisclosed buyer in a deal that the company said could help fund a second operated rig next year.

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas received 410 bids in its just-held North Slope Foothills areawide oil and natural gas lease sale. Winning bids totaled nearly $17.8 million.

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has automated the way members of the public and industry nominate lands for possible oil and natural gas development, the agency said Monday.

TransCanada Corp. has delivered on a plan to sell its U.S. merchant power assets in the Northeast, announcing that it would earn $3.7 billion for the business to help pay for its acquisition of Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. (CPG). In another move aimed at driving growth, the company said it would retain its interests in a growing portfolio of Mexican natural gas pipeline assets.

The Colorado Oil/Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) has launched an online information source,Daily Activity Dashboard, that captures on a county-by-county basis oil and natural gas activity statewide. COGCC said the tool can locate information on pending permits, well status, production, well inspection data, violation notices, operator notifications and spills. It is being provided as a supplement to COGCC’s existing and extensive web-based data search tools, a spokesperson said.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged billionaire Leon Cooperman and his hedge fund, Omega Advisors Inc., with insider trading on Wednesday, alleging that they illegally profited from the sale of a natural gas processing facility in Oklahoma in 2010 and then tried to cover it up.

Chevron Corp. is selling nearly 100,000 net acres in a natural gas-rich area of Wyoming and Colorado as it trims its U.S. onshore inventory.