Allowed

Pacific Gas & Electric allowed Saturday’s high-inventory OFO to lapse Sunday before reinstating it for Monday’s gas day. The OFO was to be lifted again Tuesday.

Florida Gas Transmission allowed an Overage Alert Day notice that was issued Tuesday to lapse Wednesday.

Hot weather forecasts for the weekend from Texas through the desert Southwest allowed several points in those areas, along with a few other scattered ones, to swim against the tide of overall softness Friday. A majority of the cash market saw drops ranging from a couple of pennies to about 20 cents.

With cooler weather in the process of replacing the mid-spring heat surge that had allowed prices to ride increased power generation load to higher levels in most cases during the first three days of the week, it was hardly surprising when quotes fell across the board Thursday.

Aboriginal politics, formerly a lethal snare in northern Canada, will not be allowed to trip up the Mackenzie Gas Project, a ruling by the National Energy Board has confirmed.

High natural gas prices have allowed Canadian producers to drill smaller prospects and to target unconventional resources that used to be considered uneconomic, resulting in a reversal of the production declines last year. Analyst Thomas Driscoll of Lehman Brothers is predicting a 1.5% increase in Canadian natural gas production this year, “a vast improvement from the decline of nearly 3.5% experienced in 2003.”

High natural gas prices have allowed Canadian producers to drill smaller prospects and to target unconventional resources that used to be considered uneconomic, resulting in a reversal of the production declines last year. Analyst Thomas Driscoll of Lehman Brothers is predicting a 1.5% increase in Canadian natural gas production this year, “a vast improvement from the decline of nearly 3.5% experienced in 2003.”

High natural gas prices have allowed Canadian producers to drill smaller prospects and to target unconventional resources that used to be considered uneconomic, resulting in a reversal of the production declines last year. Analyst Thomas Driscoll of Lehman Brothers is predicting a 1.5% increase in Canadian natural gas production this year, “a vast improvement from the decline of nearly 3.5% experienced in 2003.”

ANR Pipeline should not be allowed to significantly raise the pressure of its system at a Wisconsin interconnect with Northern Natural Gas when its West Leg looping and replacement project goes into service on Nov. 1, because it would prevent the lower-pressure Northern Natural system from delivering gas into ANR’s system, Northern Natural protested.