March 8 (Reuters) - Last October, an Idaho farmer using a backhoe punched a hole into a 22-inch (56-cm) pipeline buried under a field, sending more than 51 million cubic feet of natural gas hissing into the air. While the incident on Williams Companies' ( WMB ) Northwest Pipeline was big, it was no anomaly along the roughly 3 million...

Here are the top stories and upcoming coverage plans for Reuters text service as of 11 a.m. GMT/6 a.m. ET. For a full schedule of news and events, go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect. TOP STORIES GLOBAL UKRAINE-CRISIS/CHINA Ukraine presses peace plan, points to N. Korean involvement in talks with Chinese envoy Senior Ukrainian officials, in a meeting...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Chevron ( CVX ) CEO Michael Wirth is facing a head-to-head match with Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) with his $53 billion bid for Hess and its stake in oil hotspot Guyana, and could wind up trapped in a dispute between two of South America's biggest energy rivals. On Wednesday, Exxon filed an arbitration claim that could...

March 8 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1030 GMT on Friday: ** EU antitrust regulators will decide by April 15 whether to clear Coach parent Tapestry's $8.5 billion acquisition of Michael Kors owner Capri Holdings ( CPRI ), according to a European Commission filing. ** Shares in DS Smith ( DITHF ) rose...