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Industry needs all the help it can get to fulfill visions of a northern energy mother lode that the Canol Shale exploration campaign is reviving, said a geologist.

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the ranking Republican on the committee, vowed last week to work together in a bipartisan effort to rethink energy regulation — but their differences on the issued appear unresolved.

Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the ranking Republican on the committee, vowed Tuesday to work together in a bipartisan effort to rethink energy regulation — but their differences on the issued appear unresolved.

Endeavour International Corp. said it plans to spend 2012 focusing on developing its offshore oil assets and ramping up production in the North Sea while it waits to see the results from tight oil test wells drilled into the Heath Shale play in Montana.

Rapid City, SD-based Black Hills Corp.’s utility, Black Hills Energy-Colorado Electric, has vowed to fight a state regulatory judge’s recommendation to deny a proposal to build an 88 MW natural gas-fired peaking generation plant to replace a coal-fired plant that is mandated to close. The proposed plant is part of a multi-party settlement.

With a proposed natural gas severance tax for Marcellus Shale production apparently not forthcoming from the Pennsylvania General Assembly before the Nov. 2 election, one group representing the industry said it is “regretful that…common sense legislative initiatives” have not been adopted by the state.

In the first of several debates before the Nov. 2 general election, incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski vowed that she will remain a Republican if she wins her write-in campaign to retain her seat.

In the first of several debates before the Nov. 2 general elections, incumbent Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski vowed that she will remain a Republican if she wins her write-in campaign to retain her seat.

National Fuel Marketing Co. LLC (NFM) and affiliates have vowed to fight in court FERC allegations that NFM used its affiliates in an unlawful scheme to secure a larger allocation of “scarce and valuable” interstate natural gas transportation capacity on Cheyenne Plains Natural Gas Co. pipeline than the Denver-based company could have acquired on its own.