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U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export frontrunner Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC, a Cheniere Energy Inc. affiliate, and associated companies are seeking FERC pre-filing review of an expansion of their LNG export terminal and associated pipeline on the Louisiana coast.

Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc., has filed an application seeking authorization to build pipeline facilities to export natural gas to serve the power generation market in northern Mexico.

Columbia Pipeline Group is seeking to expand the eastern side of its Columbia Gas Transmission system to provide Marcellus Shale gas to growing markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. It is also pursuing an expansion of the western side of its system to give producers an additional path out of the Marcellus/Utica region and to help avoid continued basis erosion.

Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc., has filed an application seeking authorization to build pipeline facilities to export natural gas to serve the power generation market in northern Mexico.

Canadian shale drillers are seeking a liquefied natural gas (LNG) counterpart to a federal corporate tax break that helped kick-start Alberta oilsands development in the 1990s.

Another proposal has emerged in the North Dakota state legislature seeking to eliminate exemptions from the state’s current one-year limit for oil production wells flaring associated natural gas.

Canadian shale drillers are seeking a liquefied natural gas (LNG) counterpart to a federal corporate tax break that helped kick-start Alberta oilsands development in the 1990s.

The San Francisco-based Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in a California Superior Court Thursday, seeking to get the state to enforce existing laws governing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) when it is used in oil and natural gas production. The nonprofit conservation organization alleged that the state is shirking its responsibility.

The United States likely will surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia this year to become the largest liquids producer in the world because of tight oil and biofuels growth, according to BP plc. North America also is expected to lead in shale gas output to 2030.