Kelcy Warren, Energy Transfer Partners CEO, discusses MLPs and the state of natural gas.
Since the tentative deal was struck last fall, the Ghanaian government is thought to have unilaterally changed the terms of the licenses governing much of the Kosmos acreage, claiming for the state all the natural gas produced from at least some of the fields.
"The way I think most Alaskans feel, the federal government won't let us go to the east onshore, they won't let us go to the west onshore, the only place to go is offshore, and they won't let us do that now, " said Kurtis Gibson, deputy director of the Alaska Division of Oil and Gas, part of the state's Department of Natural Resources.
In fact, today the New York Department of Environmental Conservation is holding one in a series of public hearings on proposed regulations to better govern the practice in that state, home to one of the largest natural gas reserves, the Marcellus play.
On the other side of the peninsula, Egypt state media reports police have thwarted an attack on a natural gas pipeline that supplies Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Israel.
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Mr. Ryan said the low price of natural gas should give state policy makers pause.
More than 70% of the state's electricity is generated by natural gas, which tends to be extremely volatile in price.
As the Cuomo administration has more recently pursued an agenda that includes rewriting state law regarding abortions to codify it with federal standards, and has delayed a decision on whether to allow a controversial form of natural-gas drilling in the state, voters have come to believe they perceive a shift in the governor's ideology.
In this context, Senator Rockefeller asked the U.S. General Accountability Office to assess the state of the coal industry given the negative externalities that it now faces: a tougher EPA in combination with cheap natural gas prices and declining coal reserves that are harder to dig out in the Appalachian region.
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Just two days before McCain announced Palin as his running mate, she signed the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, awarding a license to Calgary-based TransCanada to begin work on a natural gas pipeline from the northern part of the state to the contiguous United States.
One of the ways Russia is trying to clean up its perception as a public-private cartel of oligarchs and the public servants they rent out in Moscow is removing all government officials from chairman of the board positions at the state owned enterprises (SOE) like natural gas giant Gazprom.
Both men are from the north-western state of Rakhine (formerly Arakan), which is rich in natural gas yet very poor, and home to some of Myanmar's many oppressed ethnic minorities.
Moves by the Kremlin to nationalize the country's energy sector by pressuring a Royal Dutch Shell-led consortium to relinquish control of the Sahalin-2 natural gas project to Russia's state-controlled monopoly Gazprom, and Putin's meetings with Arab leaders last month to explore the creation of a "natural gas cartel" demonstrate an authoritarian view of energy management that is undeniably confrontational.
This narrative got a large boost following an April 19 accident at a Chesapeake Energy Corp. natural gas well in Pennsylvania about 25 miles south of the New York state border.
The decisions are predicated on federal and state environmental laws as well as prior court cases, not to mention the relative cheap price of natural gas.
From Pennsylvania to Ohio to Colorado to Louisiana to Arkansas to Texas, shale natural gas has helped to insulate communities and state economies from the seemingly intractable struggles of the national economy.
Since being elected president in December 2005, Mr Morales, a coca-workers' leader of Andean Indian descent, has shown his radical colours by reimposing state control on the natural-gas industry and on privatised mining and telecoms companies.
"From 2011 to 2015 there are going to be some new coal units needed in Texas, " says ThadHillThad Hill, president of NRG's Texas business, noting that natural gas facilities will probably address the state's growing energy demand until that date.
"From 2011 to 2015 there are going to be some new coal units needed in Texas, " says Thad Hill , president of NRG's Texas business, noting that natural gas facilities will probably address the state's growing energy demand until that date.
Mozambique state-news announced at the weekend that Anadarko was set to build a natural gas factory that will produce upwards of one billion cubic feet per day.
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