In This Issue:

- The Natural Gas Industry: 2012 Year in Review & Look Ahead

- Please Take Our Reader Survey

- Spilman Member Speaks at National Environmental Conference

- Statoil Acquires 70k Acres in Marcellus Shale Field

- Marcellus Shale Team Member

- Excerpt from Statoil Acquires 70k Acres in Marcellus Shale Field:

Statoil's purchase represents a major stake in the Marcellus Shale play in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This is part of a strategic plan to increase the company's onshore operations in the United States.