Today

Water use in Marcellus Shale drilling “may not be as big an issue as we originally thought it was,” a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) official told a natural gas forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, last Wednesday.

Ed Duncan is returning to Alaska’s North Slope where his career began about 30 years ago. This time around he has today’s unconventional drilling technologies to unlock what he expects will be a new beginning for himself and for the state.

Ed Duncan is returning to Alaska’s North Slope where his career began about 30 years ago. This time around he has today’s unconventional drilling technologies to unlock what he expects will be a new beginning for himself and for the state.

In today’s depressed natural gas and power markets, any hopes of a solar building boom have been dashed as evidenced by the latest moves at Edison International’s utility. Southern California Edison (SCE) has decided to cut its utility investment in rooftop solar systems in half, according to the parent company CEO Ted Craver, speaking on a conference call Monday in which Edison reported increased profits year over year and flat results for the fourth quarter last year.

Worldwide sales of natural gas vehicles (NGV) will increase to more than 3.2 million units annually by 2016, a 68% increase compared with 1.9 million units last year, with commercial sales in North America and Western Europe leading the surge, according to a report released by Pike Research. The increased sales will lead to growth in the use of natural gas as a transportation fuel, with 19 billion cubic meters of gas expected to be sold globally by 2016, the researchers said.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) Friday announced that she will be an independent write-in candidate in November for the Senate seat that she now holds.

Reacting to today’s events won’t get ExxonMobil Corp. where it wants to go in the next 10-15 years, CEO Rex Tillerson said Thursday. Instead, spending for the long haul on major projects will keep the major ahead of its peers, he told investment analysts at the company’s annual presentation at the New York Stock Exchange.

The jurisdiction dispute between FERC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) should be decided by lawmakers in Congress, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff and his immediate predecessor, Joseph Kelliher, said during a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Washington, DC, last Tuesday.

Reacting to today’s events won’t get ExxonMobil Corp. where it wants to go in the next 10-15 years, CEO Rex Tillerson said Thursday. Instead, spending for the long haul on major projects will keep the major ahead of its peers, he told investment analysts at the company’s annual presentation at the New York Stock Exchange.