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Aside from further discounts at Western Lower 48 hubs, natural gas forwards generally gained ground during the Dec. 14-20 trading period as the prospect of chillier conditions arriving in early 2024 lent support to prices. Fixed prices for January and February delivery rallied week/week at Henry Hub. The January contract at the national benchmark exited…

Mild winter temperatures across much of the central and eastern United States reduced heating demand and dropped domestic natural gas consumption to the lowest levels in years.  Following a cold start to winter last December, benign weather prevailed over the first two months of this year. As a result, in January, U.S. natural gas consumption…

In a market at the forefront of the energy transition, natural gas price signals in the western United States instead are incentivizing the construction of newbuild pipeline capacity, according to RBN Energy LLC. Markets west of the Permian Basin have struggled to consistently maintain adequate natural gas supplies for some time now, RBN analyst Jason…

The Department of Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering moving its headquarters from Washington, DC, to a western state, according to elected officials and others in Colorado who attended a forum with the deputy secretary last week.

West Virginia’s natural gas industry is “anxiously awaiting” Republican Gov. Jim Justice’s signature on co-tenancy legislation that would modernize the mineral law and better accommodate unconventional development in the state.

U.S. land permitting is off to a hot start in November, standing at 2,106 as of last Friday (Nov. 10), but a seasonal slowdown may temper year-end results, Evercore ISI said Tuesday.

Combined conventional and unconventional natural gas production in West Virginia increased again last year, albeit at a lower rate than in years past, according to data from the state Department of Environmental Protection.

In a critical step to furthering petrochemical development in the Appalachian Basin, a team of researchers has concluded after a one-year study that there are multiple options for underground natural gas liquids (NGL) storage in various formations throughout the region.

Republican leaders in the West Virginia legislature have formed an interim committee to explore more ways the state can attract and increase shale gas development.