Until

The Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission (MSAC) released its final report on Friday and now Pennsylvania policymakers in the executive and legislative branches must decide which recommendations to keep, which to change and which to toss.

Alaska’s Cook Inlet basin is capable “given sufficient continued investments” of supplying the region’s gas needs until 2018-2020 at a price below that of supply alternatives being considered, according to a new study.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week finalized an agreement to extend until Sept. 30 the deadline for proposing greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for fossil fuel power plants, giving older less-efficient coal-fired plants a temporary reprieve.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized an agreement to extend until Sept. 30 the deadline for proposing greenhouse gas (GHG) standards for fossil fuel power plants, giving older less-efficient coal-fired plants a temporary reprieve.

Two separate bills calling for a comprehensive study of hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) in North Carolina — a state where the practice is currently illegal — are expected to be sent to Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue this week.

The debate over taxing shale gas production in Pennsylvania is increasingly focusing on where the money would go, as two Philadelphia-area Republican lawmakers proposed severance taxes last week designed to ease the tax burden on individuals.

Until further notice, Columbia Gulf said Thursday it will not be accepting imbalance paybacks or allowing shippers to create new length on their contracts.

Thanks to the Montney and Horn River shale plays, Western Canada can hold its own in the natural gas renaissance; however, production from these developing plays will not offset declines in the region’s conventional gas production, according to Ziff Energy Group’s Edward Kallio, director of gas consulting.

Due to a gas quality problem, NGPL said the Superior Inter Wheeler receipt point in Wheeler County, TX, will be unavailable effective Thursday until further notice.