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BP plc is putting its once touted U.S. wind energy business on the market to refocus on growing its oil and natural gas operations, the operator said last week.

Western Canada’s natural gas production could be 3 Bcf/d higher by 2025 if some of the region’s highly touted unconventional resources match the hype, according to an analysis by ITG Investment Research (IR).

Western Canada’s natural gas production could be 3 Bcf/d higher by 2025 if some of the region’s highly touted unconventional resources match the hype, according to an analysis by ITG Investment Research (IR).

Two weeks after Michigan’s governor touted natural gas as a fuel for economic revival, hometown utility Consumers Energy said it is building a 700 MW gas-fired power plant in Genesee County, whose county seat is Flint, birthplace of General Motors. On the natural gas distribution side of its business, the company is laying pipe to serve new customers who’ve gotten word of cheap gas.

Two weeks after Michigan’s governor touted natural gas as a fuel for economic revival, hometown utility Consumers Energy said it is building a 700 MW gas-fired power plant in Genesee County, whose county seat is Flint, birthplace of General Motors. On the natural gas distribution side of its business, the company is laying pipe to serve new customers who’ve gotten word of cheap gas.

Midland, TX-based Escondido Resources II LLC touted Wednesday what it said is the highest-producing natural gas well to date in the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas: its Spohn Ranch 1H well in the Hawkville Field in Webb County.

Natural gas groups last week touted the Obama administration’s new standards that would require automakers to increase the average fuel efficiency of new cars and light-duty trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2025, nearly double that of cars currently on the road.

The senior executives of Halcon Resources Corp. have a fatter checkbook than when they started Eagle Ford Shale pioneer Petrohawk Energy Corp. not so very long ago. Having sold that successful natural gas-focused venture, with Halcon they are targeting unconventional oil plays with a similar strategy and expecting similar success.

The public debate over shale gas came to a head in Philadelphia last week, as industry executives touted their achievements, government officials praised and criticized those developments, and protestors shouted from the street outside the two-day Shale Gas Insight 2011 conference hosted by the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC).