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With a growing diversity of sources, robust supplies and recession-tempered demand, Southwest Gas Corp. is in a strong position to serve its 1.8 million customers spread around Nevada, Arizona and a sliver of the eastern part of Southern California. The only question plaguing Bill Moody, Southwest’s vice president for gas resources, is how long can the good life last?

Spectra Energy Corp. has filed an application at FERC to expand its Texas Eastern Transmission and Algonquin Gas Transmission interstate pipeline systems to serve the New Jersey and New York natural gas markets, the Houston-based company said Monday.

Encana Natural Gas Inc. has opened a compressed natural gas fueling station in Coushatta, LA, its first, to serve the company’s fleet of vehicles in Red River Parish. Starting next year the Encana Corp. subsidiary expects to offer the station’s fueling service to other corporate fleets in the region. The company said plans to open its next four natural gas fueling stations, one in each of the states of Wyoming and Colorado and two in Western Canada next year.

The horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques used to tap natural gas production from shales is beginning to “transform” the oil industry, according to a market analysis issued on Monday by Bentek Energy LLC.

Oregon officials plan to hold a limited rehearing on an earlier land-use decision for a pipeline that would serve a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at the mouth of the Columbia River.

A unit of Magnum Hunter Resources Cop. and DCP Midstream Partners LP plan to serve gas producers in western West Virginia and eastern Ohio with a new gas gathering joint venture (JV).

A unit of Magnum Hunter Resources Cop. and DCP Midstream Partners LP plan to serve gas producers in western West Virginia and eastern Ohio with a new gas gathering joint venture (JV).

Backers of a planned natural gas storage facility to serve Alaska’s gas-short Southcentral region plan to begin some work on the project in October or November, they told the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) in a filing.

Backers of a planned natural gas storage facility to serve Alaska’s gas-short Southcentral region plan to begin some work on the project in October or November, they told the Regulatory Commission of Alaska (RCA) in a filing.