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D’Lo Gas Storage LLC on Thursday launched a nonbinding open season to gauge market interest in a multicycle salt cavern, an interstate natural gas storage facility to be sited in Simpson County, MS.

Natural gas exploration and production began in urban areas of the Barnett Shale in North Texas nearly a decade ago, and early municipal regulation of the activity was less onerous than it is today, an industry lawyer told a Texas House committee Thursday.

The U.S. State Department signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas that will allow the two countries to share technical expertise on shale gas resources. Preliminary estimates by India’s Association of Petroleum Geologists indicate that India’s shale gas reserves may be larger than its proven conventional gas deposits. The MOU would help India assess its shale gas resources and help to train Indian personnel. As part of the agreement, the U.S. Geological Survey plans to study India’s shale gas resources. The United States also would help India prepare for its first shale gas auction, which is scheduled to be held by the end of 2011.

More than four years after it originally proposed construction of a deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to be sited on a man-made island off the coasts of New York and New Jersey, Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC (ASIG) has shelved the project, citing the recent retirement of ASIG founder and CEO Howard Bovers and current economic conditions.

More than four years after it originally proposed construction of a deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to be sited on a man-made island off the coasts of New York and New Jersey, Atlantic Sea Island Group LLC (ASIG) has shelved the project, citing the recent retirement of ASIG founder and CEO Howard Bovers and current economic conditions.

FERC has given environmental clearance for Tarpon Whitetail Gas Storage LLC’s proposed natural gas storage facility to be sited in Aberdeen, MS.

Backers of a proposed 400 MW utility-scale solar thermal plant have sited the project near the path of major interstate natural gas pipeline and electric transmission corridors, illustrating where they and competitors likely will be looking to site similar solar-thermal developments.

FERC has given preliminary environmental approval to Broadwater Energy LLC’s proposed deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal that will be sited in Long Island Sound about 11 miles off the coast of Connecticut and nine miles offshore Long Island.

While the debate rages about when, and if, there will be another liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal sited along the West Coast, particularly in California, a TransCanada Pipeline executive last Tuesday raised the hypothetical question of whether the West really needs a second LNG terminal at this time. Jeff Rush, vice president for TransCanada’s GTN and North Baja pipelines, made his remarks to The LDC Forum: Rockies & West in Los Angeles.