This month, E&P and service companies are in the final throes of tweaking their budgets and strategy for 2011. The most bedeviling uncertainties they face: the direction of natural gas prices and what government might do to derail E&P momentum. It would help if we had a few guidelines for the coming year. Here are a few signposts for 2011 you won't want to miss. Energy lobbyists and executives think the most clear and present danger will not come so much from Congress as from bureaucrats and regulators, especially from the Environmental Protection Agency.
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