Starring

North Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale boom has been a starring player in the country’s natural gas renaissance. However, conventional drilling in the southern part of the state has been stymied by the threat of litigation over things that occurred decades ago, producers have argued and a new study asserts.

Natural gas and renewables were given continuing starring roles in California’s energy future in a final 2011 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) approved Wednesday by the California Energy Commission (CEC), along with a series of clean transportation and research and development projects. The votes were 3-0 as the five-member CEC is still awaiting two governor-appointed commissioners.

As the curtain slowly falls on gas supply from the Gulf ofMexico Continental Shelf, the deep-water waits in the wings.Canadian producers are scripting their role on the U.S stage. Andthe Alaskan gas play’s Lower 48 audience can’t buy tickets to theshow for about a decade.

As the curtain slowly falls on gas supply from the Gulf ofMexico Continental Shelf, the deep-water waits in the wings.Canadian producers are scripting their role on the U.S stage. Andthe Alaskan gas play’s Lower 48 audience can’t buy tickets to theshow for about a decade.