Ellen Beswick

FERC has approved Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s request to use price indexes taken from Natural Gas Intelligence’s (NGI) Daily Gas Price Index for calculating cash-outs on its system, replacing indexes from Natural Gas Week. Also, instead of the six points currently referenced in its Rate Schedules LMS-MA and LMS-PA, the new form will include 12 receipt points.

Nearly 100 companies, practically everyone that matters in the U.S. businesses of natural gas production, pipeline transportation, gas distribution, gas storage, gas procurement for core residential and commercial customers, organizations representing industrial customers, and competitive retail electric and gas service businesses, have told FERC they don’t want their gas day to start at 4 a.m. CT.

Upending the natural gas day will not solve the regional problems of lack of pipeline capacity and, in fact, will undermine the reliability of deliveries, the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) said, responding to FERC’s proposed changes in gas scheduling aimed at serving electric power load (see Daily GPI, March 20).

Growth in North American natural gas traffic is migrating south to Mexico from Canada, according to the latest trade scorecard of the United States Department of Energy (DOE).

Gulf South Pipeline Co. LP, a “web-like” interstate natural gas pipeline system bordering the Gulf of Mexico, has stirred up a firestorm among its myriad distributor and producer customers with its first new rate filing in 17 years, which includes higher rates and a new zone system.

The Obama administration, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), continues to favor a multifaceted approach to clean energy that includes natural gas, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told a Resources for the Future (RFF) audience Thursday.

The Central United States will suffer below-normal temperatures through December, while above-normal temperatures are expected in the western and eastern thirds of the country, according to the latest forecast from Weather Services International (WSI).

The North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) has ratified and will file with FERC a revised timeline for natural gas nomination cycles. And at the same time a splinter group of southwestern utilities has put together an alternative proposal, according to a Commission update issued Thursday on gas-electric coordination.

Republican Commissioner Scott D. O’Malia plans to leave the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Aug. 8, after having labored four and a half years through market reforms mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.