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Sep. 9, 2014
Once-decayed steel towns and rural areas are rising anew across heartland of nation, their economies bustling as domestic oil and gas production surges; change is evident in downtowns of northeastern Ohio cities, as well as in economic data for state; industrial production nationwide has risen 20 percent since 2009. MORE
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Sep. 4, 2014
New Jersey Gov Chris Christie, speaking during trip to Mexico, lays out plan for what he calls a North American energy renaissance; calls for an end to 40-year ban on crude oil exports, faster approval of natural gas pipelines between the United States and Mexico, and construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast. MORE
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Sep. 3, 2014
Pacific Gas & Electric Company has been hit with California Public Utilities Commission proposed $1.4 billion penalty for suspected safety violations; penalty is in connection with natural gas explosion that killed eight people in neighborhood of San Bruno, Calif, in 2010. MORE
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Aug. 26, 2014
Start of natural gas drilling by Consol Energy near Pittsburgh International Airport is announced; project could ultimately bring more than $500 million in royalties to Allegheny County Airport Authority. MORE
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Aug. 22, 2014
China has had only limited success as it pushes to increase domestic natural gas production and reduce rising dependence on energy imports; extraction process faces far more obstacles than in the United States, as workers struggle to avoid underground labyrinths of coal mines and clay-rich soil that impedes hydraulic fracturing. MORE
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Aug. 12, 2014
Pittsburgh International Airport is struggling financially and mired in debt, with sharply lower traffic over past decade, but it is sitting on enough natural gas to run Pennsylvania for year and a half; Consol Energy will drill its first well in August using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to tap gas, which county officials say will bring them nearly half billion dollars over 20 years. MORE
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Aug. 11, 2014
European Union’s languishing antitrust case against Russian gas company Gazprom may underscore reality that natural gas is off the table when it comes to economic sanctions over Ukraine crisis; half of Russian gas sent to Europe goes through Ukraine. MORE
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Aug. 10, 2014
Kinder Morgan, the largest of the master limited partnerships, will acquire its three associated companies and re-form as a traditional corporation worth $140 billion. MORE
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Aug. 5, 2014
Colorado Gov John W Hickenlooper says he has reached a deal to keep two antifracking measures off November ballots; agreement includes creating a task force to study the effects of drilling near homes and schools, and having the state drop 2012 lawsuit against city of Longmont, which crafted its own restrictive oil and gas rules. MORE
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Jul. 31, 2014
Tougher round of sanctions against Russia, and the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, is prompting top energy industry executives to take a fresh look at the crisis; they are acknowledging that the escalating tensions could sharply hurt Western oil and gas companies with major investments in Russia, as well as service companies that are key technology suppliers. MORE
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Jul. 30, 2014
Op-Ed article by economics Prof James K Boyce praises bill to be introduced by Rep Chris Van Hollen that would require coal, oil and natural gas companies to buy permit for each ton of carbon in fuels they sell; notes that proceeds would be returned straight to American people as equal dividends; contends if any bill can win bipartisan support, it is Van Hollen's bill. MORE
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Jul. 28, 2014
British government plans to make more land available for licensing for oil and natural gas exploration in first such expansion since 2008; it is opening large new tracts of land for exploratory drilling as part of an effort to encourage exploitation of shale fuel. MORE
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Jul. 24, 2014
Study by Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Rhodium Group finds that Texas and Oklahoma would be among biggest economic winners under regulation proposed by President Obama to fight climate change because it would create robust new demand for natural gas; co-author of study points out irony that both Texas Gov Rick Perry and Sen James M Inhofe of Oklahoma, both Republicans, have been outspokenly skeptical of climate change. MORE
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Jul. 24, 2014
Steven Rattner Op-Ed article calls for lifting of ban on export of crude oil; says move would allow price of crude oil in United States to rise to global price while keeping prices at gasoline pumps same; adds that lifting of ban would encourage drilling, create jobs and reduce reliance on imports; also calls for lifting of restrictions on export of natural gas, and for both actions to be expedited by Congress. MORE
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Jul. 17, 2014
Colorado Gov John W Hickenlooper announces he does not have enough support to pass a bipartisan law giving local towns more control over fracking; energy developers and environmental groups face off over measures that would outlaw drilling within 2,000 feet of homes and schools and give communities more power to restrict drilling. MORE
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Jul. 13, 2014
Op-Ed article by author Ann Neumann laments that Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline will destroy much of the land on her family's property in Lancaster, Pa; asserts that pipeline approval process is neither democratic nor transparent, and notes that company building the pipeline can invoke federal right of eminent domain if landowners do not want the pipeline on their land. MORE
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Jul. 11, 2014
Residents of several towns across New England are banding together in opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline that would slice through their communities; half of New England's electricity is now generated by burning natural gas, prompting officials to seek new ways to import fuel. MORE
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Jul. 5, 2014
Germany's ministers for energy and environment are seeking ban on shale gas and oil drilling over next seven years because of worries that practice could pollute drinking water and damage the environment; Chancellor Angela Merkel's government had planned to introduce legislation to regulate hydraulic fracturing, bringing end to de facto moratorium on practice. MORE
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Jul. 1, 2014
Private cybersecurity researchers say that Russian hackers are systematically targeting hundreds of Western oil and gas companies, as well as energy investment firms; intrusions give hackers opportunity to seize control of industrial control systems from afar, much as United States and Israel did of Iran’s centrifuges in 2009. MORE
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Jul. 1, 2014
Work on major natural gas pipeline beneath Black Sea has stalled, as European Union and United States apply pressure on Bulgaria, where $22 billion gas conduit was to make landfall; Bulgaria is torn between EU and Russia in escalating conflict over Ukraine; Europe's dependence on Russia for gas is widely viewed as limiting scope of West's response to Ukraine crisis. MORE
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Jun. 30, 2014
Oil boom in Texas has done little to improve lives of poverty-stricken residents who live in shadow of natural gas processing plants and elsewhere; town of Gardendale, Tex, one of many decrepit shantytowns that have come to be known as colonias, lacks even most basic services like clean water, sewers and police; area presents searing image of income inequality, even decades after it inspired Lyndon B Johnson to begin his war on poverty (Series: Caught In Poverty). MORE
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Jun. 28, 2014
Indian pipeline explodes, killing at least 15 people in the village of Nagaram; cause of explosion is under investigation. MORE
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Jun. 19, 2014
New York City's Fire Department is now responding to all reports of gas odors that city receives; says residents should call 911, not Consolidated Edison; significant change in policy, which comes after gas explosion in East Harlem that leveled two buildings, stems from belief that it will provide faster responses, averting potential disasters. MORE
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Jun. 17, 2014
Russian energy company Gazprom cuts off natural gas supplies to Ukraine, warning that reduction could diminish amount of gas flowing to Europe; cutoff, which further aggravates tense relations between two countries, comes after Ukraine missed deadline to pay nearly $2 billion installment for past gas deliveries. MORE
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Jun. 12, 2014
Russia and Ukraine fail to end an acrimonious standoff over price of natural gas supplied by Russian energy giant Gazprom, dashing hopes that election of a new Ukrainian president might ease a dispute that has long poisoned relations between Moscow and Kiev. MORE
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Jun. 10, 2014
Russian and Ukrainian officials fail to reach solution during talks in Brussels to dispute over energy that has exacerbated tensions and led to concerns about cutoffs of natural gas to the European Union. MORE
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Jun. 10, 2014
National debate over the oil-and-gas-production technique known as fracking is edging toward the ballot box in Colorado, opening an election-year rift between moderate, energy-friendly Democrats and environmentalists who want to rein in drilling or give local communities the power to outlaw it altogether; if they make the ballot in November, an array of proposals will be among the first in the nation to ask a state’s voters to sharply limit energy development. MORE
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Jun. 6, 2014
German government, in potential shift on energy policy, is preparing framework that would let energy companies extract oil and natural gas by the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing. MORE
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Jun. 5, 2014
Dutch government is demanding that operator of Groningen gas field curtail production due to frequent earthquakes caused by reduction in field's natural pressure; field has been reliable supply of gas for Northern Europe for five decades, and accounts for about one-third of natural gas produced in the European Union. MORE
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Jun. 4, 2014
News analysis; climate stabilization plan announced by Pres Obama relies on conventional wisdom, strongly promoted by industry, that natural gas drives down emissions, but it’s unclear whether its net effect helps in long term. MORE
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Jun. 3, 2014
Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom pushes back by a week its ultimatum to Ukraine to pay in advance for natural gas or face a shutoff; company also lowers its asking price, signaling softening of its stance in the two countries' pipeline politics. MORE
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Jun. 3, 2014
Proposed carbon pollution rules by Environmental Protection Agency will help spur natural gas industry and renewable energy like wind and solar power, but executives and analysts say nation's reliance on coal will not disappear anytime soon; reductions in coal use will come from relying more on other power sources and making structures more efficient, but both are already happening. MORE
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May. 31, 2014
Russia and Ukraine agree on compromise in gas price feud that allows negotiations to resume; European Union's energy commissioner says Ukraine has paid Russia $786 million to cover some of the billions of dollars that gas monopoly Gazprom says it is owed by Ukrainian gas utility Naftogaz. MORE
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May. 26, 2014
Editorial decries Gov Chris Christie's efforts to push through plan to run natural gas pipeline through southern New Jersey Pinelands by replacing members of state's Pinelands Commission with officials sympathetic to his ambitions; warns that in doing so, Christie may overturn rejection of pipeline issued in January; holds that pipeline is unnecessary and environmentally irresponsible. MORE
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May. 22, 2014
Russia and China reach agreement on $400 billion natural gas deal, giving Moscow a megamarket for its leading export and linking two major powers that have drawn closer to counter the clout of the United States and Europe; contract between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation runs for 30 years and calls for the construction of pipelines and other infrastructure that will require tens of billions of dollars in investment. MORE
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May. 22, 2014
Thirty-year natural gas deal between China and Russia shows that it is going to great lengths to satisfy its growing hunger for energy, even as China is locked in tense standoff with Vietnam over oil rig drilling in contested South China Sea; both developments demonstrate China's expansive approach to energy, a political and economic strategy with significant implications for rest of the world. MORE
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May. 21, 2014
China and Russia fail to reach agreement on natural gas deal between Gazprom and China National Petroleum Company, despite high expectations that mutual political interests would help finally push through the project; price of gas continues to be main concern. MORE
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May. 16, 2014
Consolidated Edison internal memo reveals that complaints about smell of gas in the air more than doubled in weeks after explosion that leveled two apartment buildings in East Harlem in March; so many calls led to leaks that the backlog of pipes to be repaired grew to be nearly twice as big as state regulators consider acceptable. MORE
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May. 11, 2014
Executives at Russian gas giant Gazprom say Ukraine owes them more than $22 billion, adding economic pressure to the military presence along Ukraine’s eastern border; behind payment demands is a warning that Gazprom will cut off gas supplies to Ukraine, which it has done at least twice before, in 2006 and 2009, over political and financial disputes. MORE
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May. 7, 2014
Scientists say sharp rise in number of earthquakes in Oklahoma, apparently related to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production, has significantly increased chances that damaging quake will occur there; 145 small earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher have occurred there as of May 2014, compared with 109 for all of 2013. MORE
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May. 5, 2014
Ukraine's effort to establish 'reverse flow' gas imports from Europe has been consistently thwarted by reluctant Slovakia, essential gas corridor between country and continent; plan would allow Ukraine to break free of Russia's state-controlled energy giant Gazprom, which has raised prices and threatened to turn off tap since unrest between two countries began; analysts see Slovakian intransigence as evidence of Gazprom's outsize political influence across Europe. MORE
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Apr. 30, 2014
Op-Ed article by former New York City Mayor Michael R Bloomberg and Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, offers reality check on both the benefits and drawbacks of the shale gas boom; calls for strong rules and enforcement to ensure responsible development of this energy resource MORE
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Apr. 28, 2014
Paolo Scaroni, chief executive of Italian energy giant ENI, is willing to risk upsetting Moscow by trying to help Ukraine; others in energy industry have been notably wary of increasing economic tensions with Russia over crisis; ENI is largest distributor of Russian gas in Europe. MORE
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Apr. 28, 2014
Environmentalists and nuclear industry are beginning push to preserve old nuclear reactors whose economic viability is threatened by cheap natural gas and rising production of wind energy; they argue that while natural gas and wind are helpful sources of electricity with little or no production of greenhouse gases, national climate goals will be unreachable if zero-carbon nuclear reactors are phased out. MORE
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Apr. 22, 2014
Alaska’s legislature approves Gov Sean Parnell’s plan to join four energy companies in plans to build infrastructure to transport and market 35 trillion cubic feet of North Slope gas, which will be shipped by 800-mile pipeline to liquefied natural gas export plant. MORE
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Apr. 21, 2014
Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash has made billions brokering natural gas deals, but he now faces both criminal indictment and racketeering lawsuit in United States court, involving alleged money laundering and bribery; brokers in gas deals are starting to lose their political capital. MORE
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Apr. 12, 2014
China, eager to ween itself from energy imports and coal, is pursuing shale gas extraction project that is likely to be more expensive and dangerous than elsewhere in world; explosion at fracking facility in Jiaoshizhen has highlighted concerns; energy giant Sinopec is pursuing project despite conditions that force workers to dig three times as deep as their counterparts in the United States. MORE
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Apr. 12, 2014
Ohio geologists link earthquakes in geologic formation deep under Appalachians to gas drilling, leading Ohio to issue new permit conditions in certain areas. MORE
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Apr. 8, 2014
Liquefied natural gas from United States may hold promise for Europe to reduce its reliance on Russia, but regulatory and market obstacles stand in the way; US is poised to export more than 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily by 2020. MORE
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