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Houston-based Dynegy Inc. announced a senior management shakeup Tuesday at the same time it said it has terminated an offer to be bought by a unit controlled by billionaire Carl Icahn, a major shareholder in the company. CEO Bruce Williamson and CFO Holli Nichols resigned, effective March 11, and five board members will not stand for reelection.

Natural gas got only a passing mention as a clean fuel in President Obama’s State of the Union Speech Tuesday night; at the same time the president set a goal of a million electric vehicles by 2015 and vowed to “eliminate billions of taxpayer dollars of oil subsidies…”

Natural gas got only a passing mention as a clean fuel in President Obama’s State of the Union Speech Tuesday night, at the same time the president set a goal of a million electric vehicles by 2015 and vowed to “eliminate billions of taxpayer dollars of oil subsidies…”

ONEOK Partners plans to invest another $260-305 million between now and the end of 2014 for new projects in the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin, with most of the money earmarked for natural gas midstream projects.

Well completions in the fourth quarter were up 37% compared to the same period a year earlier but remained well below 4Q2008 levels, and 2010 totals also remained below 2008 levels, according to the American Petroleum Institute (API).

Well completions in the fourth quarter were up 37% compared to the same period a year earlier but remained well below 4Q2008 levels, and 2010 totals also remained below 2008 levels, according to the American Petroleum Institute (API).

For 2011 it will be more of the same where low natural gas prices and the gas-crude oil price relationship are concerned, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.

For 2011 it will be more of the same where low natural gas prices and the gas-crude oil price relationship are concerned, according to analysts at Fitch Ratings.

New York Gov. David Paterson has vetoed a bill that would have put in place a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the state through May 15, and at the same time he extended until July 1 a deadline for the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to prepare a supplemental generic environmental impact statement (SGEIS).