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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) officials have hit back at the numbers and types of violations of natural gas pipeline survey and classification work that an investigative unit of the California regulatory commission has leveled against the combination utility.

In an effort to give analysts and industry more comprehensive information on the relationship between natural gas inventory changes and types of storage facilities, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) — starting with the March 22 edition of the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report — is providing breakouts of inventory levels at salt cavern and nonsalt cavern facilities for the weekly estimates of working gas in underground natural gas storage inventories in the Producing Region, defined as Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

In an effort to give analysts and industry more comprehensive information on the relationship between natural gas inventory changes and types of storage facilities, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) — starting with the March 22 edition of the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report — is providing breakouts of inventory levels at salt cavern and nonsalt cavern facilities for the weekly estimates of working gas in underground natural gas storage inventories in the Producing Region, defined as Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

With stranded ethane in the Appalachian Basin starting to find markets, Sunoco Logistics Partners LP is looking at ways to move other types of natural gas liquids (NGL) from the region.

ConocoPhillips is facing some takeaway issues for its liquids in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, but that’s only a minor blip on the screen and has done nothing to reduce the company’s enthusiasm for unconventional plays, executives said Wednesday.

The desire to acquire shale acreage and midstream assets in the United States continues to be strong, with domestic natural gas and oil mergers and acquisitions (M&A) values reaching $39 billion in the second quarter, according to an analysis by PwC US.

A coalition of 69 environmental groups has urged President Obama to “employ any legal means” to halt hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and suggested a federal moratorium until further environmental studies of the practice are completed.

BP plc was the only one of the top five U.S. producers of natural gas that also showed up among the top five gas marketers in 2010, according to an analysis by Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) of federal filings that showed a 6% gain in trading in 2010 over 2009.

The story “Devon May Unveil ‘New Play Types’ This Year” (see Daily GPI, April 14) should have said that Devon Energy Corp. acquired its Barnett Shale leasehold in 2001 for $3.1 billion. NGI regrets the error.