Vice

Enterprise Products Partners LP and Entergy Transfer Partners LP for now have abandoned plans to construct a 584-mile crude oil pipeline from Cushing, OK, to Houston, Enterprise said Monday.

Petrohawk Energy Corp. got into the Eagle Ford Shale and moved fast. Those are the keys to success in shale plays, the company’s vice president of exploration, Charles Cusack, told a Houston audience Wednesday.

Chevron Corp. will continue to expand its unconventional natural gas operations in the United States but it first will focus on the Marcellus Shale, Vice Chairman George Kirkland said Friday.

The Republican-controlled Ohio Senate passed Substitute HB 133 by a 22-10 vote on Wednesday. The measure creates a five-member Oil and Gas Leasing Commission (OGLC) and opens land owned by the state — including state parks but not nature preserves — to oil and gas leasing.

In what he described as “a contrarian view to what we’re hearing in the marketplace,” Paul Corby, senior vice president of Planalytics Inc., said he thinks natural gas prices could be close to $5.50/MMBtu later this year and possibly as high as $6.50/MMBtu in 2012.

In what he described as “a contrarian view to what we’re hearing in the marketplace,” Paul Corby, senior vice president of Planalytics Inc., said Wednesday he thinks natural gas prices could be close to $5.50/MMBtu later this year and possibly as high as $6.50/MMBtu in 2012.

Houston-based NiSource Midstream Services (NMS) named John Bonn president and Brian Raber vice president of operations and engineering, the NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage (NGT&S) unit said. Bonn, who has worked in the past for Monarch Natural Gas, Enterprise Product Partners (EPP), El Paso Corp. and Delhi Gas Pipeline, will be responsible for the development of investment opportunities in the midstream sector and extending the NGT&S presence to the wellhead, with an initial focus on the Marcellus Shale region. Raber previously worked for Hoover Energy Partners, EPP, TEPPCO, El Paso and Moore Control Systems Inc. He will be responsible for all operations and engineering activities for NMS and report directly to Bonn.

Houston-based NiSource Midstream Services (NMS) named John Bonn president and Brian Raber vice president of operations and engineering, the NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage (NGT&S) unit said. Bonn, who has worked in the past for Monarch Natural Gas, Enterprise Product Partners (EPP), El Paso Corp. and Delhi Gas Pipeline, will be responsible for the development of investment opportunities in the midstream sector and extending the NGT&S presence to the wellhead, with an initial focus on the Marcellus Shale region. Raber previously worked for Hoover Energy Partners, EPP, TEPPCO, El Paso and Moore Control Systems Inc. He will be responsible for all operations and engineering activities for NMS and report directly to Bonn.

America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) has tapped Tom Hassenboehler as vice president of policy development and legislative affairs. He joins ANGA after nearly a decade on Capitol Hill, serving as minority counsel to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and as counsel on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Hassenboehler previously worked in the offices of former Reps. Billy Tauzin (R-LA) and Bob Riley (R-AL). “[His] knowledge of energy and environmental policy, coupled with his deep understanding of Congress and the many benefits of natural gas, will be a tremendous asset to ANGA’s efforts to promote greater utilization of this clean, domestic energy source,” said ANGA President Regina Hopper. Hassenboehler earned a bachelor’s degree and juris doctorate from Louisiana State University.