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By Greg Russell On December 20, 2009

Clean Air Act Settlement

U.S. EPA has published notice of a proposed consent decree with WildEarth Guardians and San Juan Citizens Alliance filed in the...


Tags: Air, Energy, Environment

By Greg Russell On December 17, 2009

Royalty Audit

This is interesting: A state-run escrow fund in Virginia holding millions of dollars in natural gas royalties owed to mineral...


Tags: Energy

Dominion has announced a $253 million expansion of its gathering and processing assets in West Virginia. "Dominion will complete...


Tags: Energy

By Greg Russell On December 14, 2009

E&P Emissions Regulation

We are moving towards greater regulation of emissions from oil and gas exploration and production operations, according to this ...


Tags: Air, Energy, Environment

By Greg Russell On December 14, 2009

Forced Pooling - VA

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has a series of reports on forced pooling in Virginia (see here, for example).  You may be interested.


Tags: Energy

By Greg Russell On December 14, 2009

CA Geothermal Project Halted

We've reported previously on a geothermal project in California and the concerns raised over potential earthquake risks (see here...


Tags: Energy, Environment, Geothermal

The Houston Chronicle is reporting that a group of New Mexico producers have filed a complaint with the New Mexico Public...


Tags: Gathering, Energy

By Greg Russell On December 13, 2009

BP Products PMPA Decision

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Rao v. BP Products North America, Inc. (Case No. 07-2065) recently...


Tags: Petroleum, Practices, Marketing, Petroleum Marketing Practices Act,

The Houston Chronicle is reporting on the results of a survey indicating that natural gas industry executives are optimistic...


Tags: Energy

The WSJ has a short article on the volatile relationship between US and UK liquefied natural gas prices and what we might see in...


Tags: LNG, Energy

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