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Williams' Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco) recently began service on two expansions along the eastern seaboard: the Northeast Connector Project and partially on the Virginia Southside Expansion Project. Read More

Although the Utica Shale land-grab is largely over and most Ohio acreage has been delineated, there remains a flurry of activity on the play's fringes... Read More

Sabal Trail Transmission LLC has filed a Section 7(c) application at FERC for its proposed pipeline to deliver gas to power generators and local distribution companies... Read More

Wyoming sold oil and natural gas leases in a quarterly auction Wednesday, generating $3.49 million in revenues involving 71,960 acres, the Office of State Lands and Investments said. Read More

Defeat of an anti-drilling measure in Santa Barbara County, CA, and the re-election of Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday provided new encouragement to industry-backed supporters of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and continued development of the nation's unconventional energy resources. Read More

Several natural gas-fired power plants are under consideration in northern Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio that would take advantage of locally produced gas in the Utica and Marcellus shales. Read More

The general partner of Goldboro LNG LP II, which is developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on the Nova Scotia coast near Halifax, is seeking authority to export U.S. gas to feed the project. Read More

NET Mexico Pipeline Partners LLC Thursday was given a FERC clearance allowing it to place its 2 Bcf/d-plus Texas-to-Mexico natural gas pipeline project in service. The project could be online by Nov. 14, NET Mexico told the Commission. Read More

The elected Board of Supervisors in Kern County, CA, in the middle of the state's oil patch in the lower San Joaquin Valley, was sued in California Superior Court last Thursday for allegedly ignoring environmental risks in approving a $100 million crude-by-rail project in Bakersfield. The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and the Association of Irritated Residents, among others, filed the legal action. Read More

More than a year after becoming the only local jurisdiction in New Mexico to ban all oil and natural gas activity, Mora County's three-member elected commission voted last Tuesday against repealing the ban it passed in April 2013. However, an industry representative predicts that the ban will be repealed next year. Read More