NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene, a chemical used to make food-storage containers, car bumpers and other consumer products, on Saturn's moon Titan. This is the first

Pennant Midstream LLC is building a 12-in. OD, 38-mile NGL pipeline connecting the Hickory Bend cryogenic gas processing plant in New Middletown, Ohio, to M3 Midstream LLC’s Utica East Ohio (UEO) Kensington gathering, processing, and fractionation complex in Columbiana County, Ohio.

MarkWest Energy Partners LP continues to work on repairing an NGL pipeline it owns and operates in a remote area of northern Wetzel County, W.Va., and expects to return both it and its 320-MMcfd Mobley I and II gas processing plants to service in mid-October.

India has approved a policy that allows exploration and exploitation of unconventional shale gas and oil on licenses that have already been awarded for conventional efforts.

Since 2011, natural gas consumption of European member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has been generally declining, and coal consumption has been generally increasing, due to “a confluence of supply and demand factors, in both the gas and coal markets, as well as other economic constraints,” according to the US Energy Information Administration.

W&T Offshore has purchased a 20% working interest in the Dantzler prospect on Mississippi Canyon Blocks 738 and 782 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico from Noble Energy Inc.

Fears of a partial US government shutdown weighed heavily on New York markets Sept. 27, with crude and natural gas each dropping 1.4%.

If the electricity-generation business was destined to build few coal-fired units anyway, why does the US need a regulation ensuring that outcome?

Oil and gas activity in the Bogart Canyon area of Utah's Book Cliffs will be delayed until 2016, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and the state's School and Institutional Lands Trust Administration jointly announced on Sept. 16.