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U.S. Natural Gas Giants Eye New Appalachia Pipelines

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Rising demand for natural gas in the United States and a supportive administration are prompting U.S. natural gas producers and pipeline giants to begin to actively consider proposing new pipelines to bring more gas supply from America’s top gas-producing region, Appalachia, to consumers. “We

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Natural Gas Boom to Heat Up in Texas

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Texas is pumping natural gas out of the ground and exporting it at a record pace. It may only be the start of another energy boom for the Lone Star State because natural gas demand is growing both globally and at home. Texas produced 34.1

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Shell Boosts Natural Gas Production at Norway’s Ormen Lange Field

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Shell and its partners have started up two subsea compressors to boost the recovery rate at the Ormen Lange natural gas field in the Norwegian Sea, the UK-based supermajor, which operates the field, said on Friday. Shell expects the compression stations to raise the gas recovery rate to 85% from the current 75%.

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Massachusetts Voters Demand More Natural Gas, Constitution Pipeline

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Natural gas prices have increased 93 percent over the last decade, while electricity costs have risen 65 percent. A new poll of registered Massachusetts voters shows they are fed up with the liberal policies of the Democrats running the state when it comes to the sky-high cost of energy. For many families, energy bills now.

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Russia’s Natural Gas Supply to Europe Drops

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Russia’s natural gas exports to Europe via pipeline and LNG cargoes declined in the first half of 2025 from a year earlier as flows via Ukraine stopped and some buyers shunned Russian LNG. Total gas exports from Russia to Europe nearly halved to 8.33 billion cubic meters in the period January to June 2025, down from 15.5

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Russia Considers Tax Breaks for Natural Gas Producers As Challenges Mount

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Russia’s government is weighing the possibility of some tax relief for the giant gas firm Gazprom, which would be paid for by potentially higher taxes on other Russian natural gas producers, a source in the Russian government told Reuters on Monday. Gazprom has been bleeding cash since it cut off most of its pipeline gas deliveries to Europe in (..)

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Natural Gas Price Breakdown – Heading Back into $2 Territory?

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The NYMEX “front month” futures contract for natural gas (August contract) slid lower yesterday for a second day in a row. The price dropped 12.6 cents per million British thermal units (MMBtus), or nearly 4%, to $3.214 yesterday. The price was down 19.8 cents (nearly 6%) over the past two days. According to one analyst.