Energy analysts will be reading the tea leaves Tuesday as Obama administration officials field questions about their approach to exporting U.S natural gas during a Senate forum on the issue. Follow live as we tweet from the forum.  More »

Poland’s shale gas boom is threatened even before it gets started after some wells failed and the government sought to increase taxes on profits.  More »

As many as 46,000 permanent jobs in the chemical industry will be created if all of the chemical and plastics projects that have been announced to take advantage of plentiful and low-cost supplies of natural gas are built, according to a study released Monday by the American Chemistry Council.  More »

The United States has more than enough natural gas to meet the needs of domestic customers and simultaneously sell the fossil fuel overseas without causing big price increases, according to a report issued Monday. Inside U.S. borders, demand for natural gas is expected to be driven by power utilities, the conversion of heavy-duty vehicle fleets and the industrial sector, as manufacturers transform the fossil fuel into other products.  More »

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. says it has begun using natural gas produced from the Marcellus Shale to fracture wells there, displacing up to 70 percent of the diesel fuel used to operate fracturing equipment.  More »

Oil and gas development damaged the water supplies of at least 161 Pennsylvania homes, farms, churches and businesses between 2008 and the fall of 2012, according to state records obtained by a newspaper.  More »

Municipalities have started spending some of the proceeds from the state’s impact fee on natural gas drillers.  More »

The Obama administration on Friday gave Freeport LNG approval to broadly export domestically harvested natural gas, marking only the second time a U.S. company has won such a license. The export license ensures that the Texas-based project will be able to liquefy natural gas produced by BP to Japan, Taiwan and other countries that do not have free-trade agreements with the United States.  More »

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has appointed Don Lindley as the new president of its Natural Gas Liquids Business Development division, the company announced Friday.  More »

Natural gas will trade below $4 per million British thermal units for the rest of the year, according to a KPMG LLP Global Energy Institute survey of U.S. energy executives.  More »

Officials say drilling in Ohio’s Utica shale region nearly doubled the output of oil and natural gas there since 2011.  More »

Middle Eastern countries are starting to feel the pinch of the U.S. shale revolution. Even Saudi Arabia will find new competition for its liquefied petroleum gas and other feedstock exports, as the United States hikes its exports of natural gas liquids.  More »