Natural Gas News

I live in Vermont, and I couldn't be more proud of our recent groundbreaking ban on fracking.

Houston, TX May 25, 2012 Texas Energy Network, LLC , a provider of next generation carrier-class communication services to the oil and natural gas industry, announced today it has purchased from Verizon Wireless lower 700 MHz A and B block wireless spectrum in the south Texas region known as the Eagle Ford shale.

The company operates in three areas of the natural gas industry: gathering and processing, transmission and storage, and distribution.

There's an interesting and painfully typical story over at Truth-Out , about how the natural gas industry, in all its self-centered wisdom, is opposing a section of a bill that would zero out fossil fuel use in half a million US federal buildings .

The deadline to move out is a little more than a week away for residents of a mobile home park in Lycoming County.

The national debate on the Keystone XL pipeline enters the courtroom, as Nebraska landowners sue their state over how the pipeline project could be approved.

Richard Slack has been named the new President and CEO of Transzap, Inc., the parent company of Oildex and provider of SaaS solutions for the oil and natural gas industry.

GBI Research, a leading business intelligence provider, has released its latest research study, "Natural Gas Industry to 2017 - Depleting Conventional Crude Oil Reserves and Emerging Technologies in Gas Consumption Infrastructure Driving Growth". The study, which is an offering from the company's Energy Research Group, provides an in-depth analysis ... (more)

May 22 - Congressman Dennis Kucinich today released the following statement after a study by the National Resources Defense Council showed once again that the Keystone XL pipeline would raise gas prices for American consumers.

The world's largest known reservoir of heavy crude oil is in the Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada, and the oil is extracted by surface mining.

Iran has set a record for the construction of refineries needed for its oil and natural gas industry despite internationals sanctions, a minister said.

However, there is huge potential for our rare earths and lithium products and knowledge to make a real and strategic impact," www.miningweekly.com quoted Reg Howard-Smith, chief executive of the Western Australian Chamber of Minerals and Energy , as saying.

The number of issues on which the state Legislature has whiffed is huge. It includes privatizing the booze business, state and municipal pension reform, reforming the Legislature itself, resolving school strikes, fair taxation and effective regulation of the natural gas industry ... and a partridge in a pear tree.

The Western Reserve Port Authority, along with officials throughout the Mahoning Valley, must be ready to attract employers tied to the area's budding natural gas industry, two real estate experts said Monday.

Mitt Romney is vowing to approve TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline on his first day on the job if elected U.S. president in November.

Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s directors are among the highest-paid in the natural gas industry, according to an investigation by Bloomberg.

All things being equal, the rematch between Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Republican challenger Bill Maloney in this year's general election may come down to how voters view the state's economy.

When the TransCanada men first came, Julia Trigg Crawford said, they were polite.

Calgary-based TransCanada, which is moving forward with a pipeline project to transport crude through East Texas to the Gulf Coast, will hold an "open house" event from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at Harvey Convention Center in Tyler.

The state's burgeoning natural gas industry has become an important market for Weiler Corp., which manufactures assorted types of brushes, wheels, abrasive discs and other surface-conditioning products.