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With the natural gas price slump now being measured in terms of years instead of months, producers continue to pull rigs from dry gas unconventional plays to pursue oil targets, according to NGI’s Shale Daily Unconventional Rig Count.

Privately held Green Energy Oilfield Services LLC has turned to liquefied natural gas (LNG) to power its trucking fleet that hauls liquid wastes from oil and natural gas drilling operations in the Freestone Trend in central-northeast Texas.

ExxonMobil Corp. shareholders for the third year in a row turned back a shareholder proposal which would require the corporation to prepare a report on the risks associated with hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Chevron Corp. shareholders defeated a similar measure at their annual meeting, with fewer voting in favor than a year ago.

Dealing with an Eagle Ford gas flow that has turned out to be much more liquids-rich than expected, Regency Energy Partners LP announced Monday that it will expand its Edwards Lime gathering joint venture in the South Texas shale play to increase the system’s capacity by 90 MMcf/d to 160 MMcf/d, and provide for additional crude transportation and stabilization capacity of 17,000 b/d.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved for early environmental review Sempra Global’s proposal to construct facilities to liquefy natural gas for export and expand a pipeline that serves the existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Hackberry, LA. Sempra Global asked FERC to begin the review process on the Cameron LNG Liquefaction Project and Cameron Interstate Pipeline LLC’s and Cameron LNG LLC’s planned expansion project. “Cameron LNG plans to construct three liquefaction trains, capable of exporting a total of 12 million metric tons per year of LNG; a fourth 160,000 cubic-meter full containment storage tank; and additional facilities on land adjacent to the existing Cameron LNG terminal in Hackberry. The related pipeline project would add bi-directional flow capability to the existing Cameron Interstate Pipeline, allowing the pipeline to transport gas from various interstate pipeline interconnections to the LNG terminal for export, as well as sending out regasified LNG from the LNG terminal to the same pipeline interconnections,” Sempra told FERC [PF12-13]. As part of the pipeline project, Cameron plans to build a 66,0000 hp compressor station and 21 miles of 42-inch diameter pipeline in Cameron, Calcasieu and Beauregard parishes. It plans to file applications in December.

As producers turned up the volume on their opposition to the federal government’s regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on public lands, they caught a break in the long-awaited proposed rule that the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued Friday.

As producers turned up the volume on their opposition to the federal government’s regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on public lands, they caught a break in the long-awaited proposed rule that Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued Friday.

As producers turned up the volume on their opposition to the federal government’s regulation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) on public lands, they caught a break in the long-awaited proposed rule that Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued Friday.

It is a matter of when, not if, additional testing will be done in Pavillion, WY, where the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has two test wells that turned up suspected chemicals tied to the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of natural gas wells in the area. Gov. Matt Mead’s spokesperson has confirmed that additional tests are coming, but they are still not scheduled.