Three weeks after FERC staff determined that Dominion’s proposal to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a facility in Maryland posed no major threat to the environment, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) urged regulators to grant the company an export license.

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The vertical-to-horizontal rig switch in the Permian Basin is accelerating faster than expected, and the overall domestic rig count also is on pace to be higher than forecast this year, Raymond James & Associates Inc.’s analysts said Monday. The U.S. rig count now is forecast to be 1,849 in 2014, a 5% increase from 2013, said analysts J. Marshall Adkins, James M. Rollyson and Praveen Narra. Raymond James had expected the rig count to be about 2.5% higher year/year (y/y) and average 1,806 rigs.