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Nine nationwide projects designed to improve water resource management practices at shale gas and coalbed methane (CBM) drilling sites were given a green light to move forward with funding from the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

Protesters who tried to halt sour-gas production in northern British Columbia (BC) by planting bombs at four industry sites have lost their war. Development of the hazardous natural gas reserves, laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide, will continue and possibly expand under a ruling handed down March 26 by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB).

Protesters who tried to halt sour-gas production in northern British Columbia (BC) by planting bombs at four industry sites have lost their war. Development of the hazardous natural gas reserves, laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide, will continue and possibly expand under a ruling handed down March 26 by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB).

The Fort Worth, TX, city council proceeded with most of a new gas drilling ordinance for the city limits on Dec. 9 but postponed decisions on setbacks for multiple well sites and the definition of a “public building” for its Tuesday (Dec. 16) meeting.

Tennessee said it was required to take line section 13-3 to 14-3 of the 100 Line in South Texas out of service Saturday morning to replace pipe at four sites that were identified as needing immediate anomaly remediation. The section is expected to return to service by the end of the Aug. 25 gas day. Three meters will be shut in for the duration of the outage. In addition, this work will limit the throughput capacity of Station 17 (East Bernard, TX) and potentially restrictions through a pro rata portion of Secondary Out of the Path nominations through the station may become necessary, Tennessee said.

Four senators whose states have been proposed as sites for controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects introduced legislation last Monday to repeal a provision in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) that gave FERC exclusive authority to site onshore LNG terminals.

Four senators whose states have been proposed as sites for controversial liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects introduced legislation Monday to repeal a provision in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) that gave FERC exclusive authority to site onshore LNG terminals.

A citizens group has asked FERC to reject two LNG receiving terminal sites in Maine proposed by Oklahoma-based Quoddy Bay LLC and Downeast LNG for Maine, saying the planned facilities demonstrate “fatally-deficient” siting.

FERC’s December initiative proposing reforms of the agency’s market-power test to promote the construction of more natural gas storage sites goes beyond what Congress intended when it adopted additional storage incentives as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) told FERC Monday.