CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper said he wants the county to re-examine the value it places on natural gas interests. Full the full story click here.

Oil and gas companies say the credit crunch is a bigger worry than falling petroleum prices, even though few say they have canceled or significantly delayed exploration projects and even fewer expect to cut field staff, according to a new survey by consultant BDO Seidman. For the full story click here.

FORT WORTH — In front of a packed chamber Tuesday night, the City Council began piecing together a new gas drilling ordinance from a list of competing proposals. For the full story click here.

Midland - The Oil & Gas Task Force, created by the Midland City Council in August, held it's first public meeting on Tuesday. Chairman Chuck Hedges called for public comment. Just one independent contractor addressed the committee. Members vowed to beef up publicity for the next meeting scheduled for December 15th at 5:30 p.m. According to the August City Council minutes, Mayor Wes Perry expects to see more applications to drill inside the city limits. The ad hoc task force must make recommendations that will facilitate both oil and gas development and real estate development in the city. Members said Tuesday, they expect to make those recommendations by February. For the full story click here.

A state lawmaker wants to encourage natural gas drilling at the state historic site where the first commercial oil well was drilled 150 years ago. For the full story click here.

A natural gas-rich rock formation in the Southern Tier could be New York's next economic bonanza, but without care it could be an environmental bust. For the full story click here.

Stretching hundreds of miles from New York to West Virginia, it is estimated that the Marcellus Shale holds as much as 516 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in pockets more than a mile underneath the earth’s surface. For the full story click here.

The lights are dimming on Northwest Colorado’s energy future. Energy companies across the country are reducing their capital budgets, and there are issues discouraging development in the Rocky Mountain states, despite the area’s wealth of resources. For the full story click here.

The bottom has dropped out of sale and leasing offers to property owners sitting above huge deposits of natural gas in Western Pennsylvania, industry officials and experts say. For the full story click here.

American natural gas production is rising at a clip not seen in half a century, pushing down prices of the fuel and reversing conventional wisdom that domestic gas fields were in irreversible decline. For the full story click here.