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Chevron Corp. said it has reached agreements to acquire two adjoining parcels of land totaling 61 acres in Moon Township in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area as a potential site for its regional headquarters office campus.

As part of a current fiscal year $90 million program, the California Energy Commission (CEC) on Wednesday awarded two more grants totaling nearly $700,000 to help advance alternative fuel and vehicle technology throughout the state. One grant ($278,000) went to a Southern California school district in Upland, CA, to update the district’s compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling facility to expand its fleet of CNG-powered buses. A second award ($400,000) went to Greenkraft Inc., an automotive manufacturer in Anaheim, CA, to use as buy-down incentives on the purchase of 40 medium-duty propane trucks. These incentives help pay the difference between alternative fuel vehicles and conventional ones. They are available only for new natural gas- and propane-powered vehicles that meet all of the emissions requirements of the California Air Resources Board. The CEC administers the state’s “Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program,” created by the state legislature in AB 118 a few years ago.

Dozens of companies cast 407 bids totaling $1.6 billion for 320 blocks covering more than 1.7 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227, held in New Orleans last Wednesday.

Dozens of companies cast 407 bids totaling $1.6 billion for 320 blocks covering more than 1.7 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227, held in New Orleans Wednesday.

ExxonMobil Corp. in 2012 replaced 115% of its production, which included 56% of natural gas output, by adding proved reserves totaling 1.8 billion boe, the super major said last week.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received bonus oil and natural gas bids totaling $4.068 million for 26 parcels in Utah that cover 37,414 acres in the latest quarterly lease sale, officials reported Tuesday.

ExxonMobil Corp. replaced 115% of its 2012 production by adding proved reserves totaling 1.8 billion boe, the super major said Tuesday.

FERC on Friday gave Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC (TGP) the go-ahead on rehearing to construct and place into service by Nov. 1 its Northeast Upgrade Project, an expansion of the pipeline’s 300 Line that is intended to move more Marcellus Shale gas to Northeast markets.

As many as 353 coal-fired generators totaling 59 GW — about 18% of the country’s coal-fired generating capacity — should be considered for closure, in addition to 41 GW of coal retirements that have already been announced, according to a report released by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).