Energy lawyers in Pennsylvania said the price of natural gas will be one of the main drivers determining which areas of oil and gas law are busy in 2013.

Kevin L. Colosimo, managing partner of Burleson LLP’s Pittsburgh office, told the Law Weekly that the price of dry gas — gas that is almost pure methane — which plummeted to under $3 per 1,000 cubic feet in early 2012, was steady by the end of the year.