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Three decades after an Alberta inquiry blamed the province’s worst natural gas well blowout on human error, Canada’s arctic offshore drilling review has received the same warning to beware of sloppiness from international disaster prevention professionals.

Three decades after an Alberta inquiry blamed the province’s worst natural gas well blowout on human error, Canada’s arctic offshore drilling review has received the same warning to beware of sloppiness from international disaster prevention professionals.

Despite having “the worst netback in the world” for liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports right now, the United States is still drawing “a significant volume of LNG with all things considered,” Waterborne President Steve Johnson told NGI.

Despite having “the worst netback in the world” for liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports right now, the United States is still drawing “a significant volume of LNG with all things considered,” Waterborne President Steve Johnson told NGI.

Nobody is proclaiming winter as “over” yet, but the worst is past as far as many are concerned. The downhill slope for Northeast citygates grew even steeper Friday, and most other points joined them with more mundane losses. Several scattered points ran against the overall market grain by being flat to about a dime higher.

America’s current recession is the worst since the 1930s and “the most synchronized” with failing markets worldwide, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) David Wyss, chief economist, told reporters last Monday. Unfortunately for natural gas producers, it also coincides with the blossoming of the nation’s unconventional gas resource base.

America’s current recession is the worst since the 1930s and “the most synchronized” with failing markets worldwide, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) David Wyss, chief economist, told reporters Monday. Unfortunately for natural gas producers, it also coincides with the blossoming of the nation’s unconventional gas resource base.

Northeast citygates saw big losses Tuesday following passage of the worst of the winter storm that has been ravaging the Eastern Seaboard in recent days, but prices were still rising in most of the rest of the market. Despite warming trends due to continue Wednesday from the Midwest through the Midcontinent and South, apparently enough heating load remained in the forecast to keep a majority of points firm.

With a sea change about to take place in Washington politics, the oil and natural gas industry and public utilities — hoping for the best but bracing for the worst — last week pledged to work with the new administration and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.