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The Alberta government and natural gas producers are vowing to stop TransCanada Corp.’s Nova pipeline network from growing like a weed far beyond the province at their expense.

A Delaware business court judge last week said he won’t stop El Paso Corp. shareholders from voting on Tuesday (March 6) on a proposed takeover by Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), but he admonished El Paso Corp. CEO Doug Foshee and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for “disturbing” behavior that led to the transaction. Shareholders still have a chance to weigh in on whether they believe the sale to KMI was “tainted by disloyalty,” wrote Delaware Chancellor Leo Stine.

A Delaware business court judge on Wednesday said he won’t stop El Paso Corp. shareholders from voting next week on a proposed takeover by Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI), but he admonished El Paso Corp. CEO Doug Foshee and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. for “disturbing” behavior that led to the transaction. Shareholders still have a chance to weigh in on whether they believe the sale to KMI was “tainted by disloyalty,” wrote Delaware Chancellor Leo Stine.

Citing conflicting words and actions by President Obama on natural gas, a chief economist for a major producer group Wednesday urged Congress to put a stop to what he claims is the administration’s attempt to overregulate hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and oil and natural gas production.

With natural gas prices at their lowest level in years, U.S. explorers will have to stop drilling for economic reasons, right? Anadarko Petroleum Corp. CEO Jim Hackett said he thinks shut-ins are inevitable. Energy analysts with Barclays Capital Markets aren’t so sure.

With natural gas prices at their lowest level in years, U.S. explorers will have to stop drilling for economic reasons, right? Anadarko Petroleum Corp. CEO Jim Hackett said he thinks shut-ins are inevitable. Energy analysts with Barclays Capital Markets aren’t so sure.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. closed out 2011 averaging 600 MMcf/d from the Marcellus Shale, including one day where the Houston company produced a record 606 MMcf.

Companies drilling in the Canadian Arctic Offshore must abide by the country’s policy requiring capability to stop a spill quickly by drilling a relief well in the same season that a blowout occurs, or demonstrate how they would meet or exceed the intended outcome of that policy, according to filing requirements issued Thursday by the National Energy Board (NEB).

Companies drilling in the Canadian Arctic Offshore must abide by the country’s policy requiring capability to stop a spill quickly by drilling a relief well in the same season that a blowout occurs, or demonstrate how they would meet or exceed the intended outcome of that policy, according to filing requirements issued Thursday by the National Energy Board (NEB).