Articles by Ellen Beswick

The Obama administration, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), continues to favor a multifaceted approach to clean energy that includes natural gas, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told a Resources for the Future (RFF) audience Thursday. Read More

The Central United States will suffer below-normal temperatures through December, while above-normal temperatures are expected in the western and eastern thirds of the country, according to the latest forecast from Weather Services International (WSI). Read More

The North American Energy Standards Board has ratified and will file with FERC a revised timeline for natural gas nomination cycles. And at the same time a splinter group of southwestern utilities has put together an alternative proposal, according to a Commission update issued Thursday on gas-electric coordination. Read More

Republican Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia plans to leave the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Aug. 8, after having labored four and a half years through market reforms mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Read More

It wouldn't be a stretch for the United States to ramp up production to serve a 10 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) export market by 2020, but whether the prospective exports would cause higher domestic natural gas prices could hinge on whether those exports are tied to Henry Hub gas or to or higher Brent crude equivalents, according to Patrick Rau, Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) director of strategy and research. Read More

It wouldn't be a stretch for the United States to ramp up production to serve a 10 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas... Read More

Natural gas production is increasing while natural gas trading activity is declining, according to recent reports from the Energy Information Administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Read More

Natural gas production is increasing while natural gas trading activity is declining, according to recent reports from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, respectively. Read More

The U.S. Senate Tuesday confirmed the administration's appointment of Timothy Massad as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and filled vacancies on the panel with two new nominees. Read More

An ongoing battle between American Midstream (Midla) Partners and its customers, including Atmos Energy Corp., over Midla’s petition to abandon its 88-year-old jurisdictional natural gas pipeline will be the subject of meetings May 29 and 30 conducted by FERC’s director of the Dispute Resolution Division (DRD). Read More