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FERC Commissioners last Wednesday approved Transwestern Pipeline’s San Juan 2005 expansion project in New Mexico. The move allows the company to add 375 MMcf/d to its system.

FERC Commissioners on Wednesday approved Transwestern Pipeline’s San Juan 2005 expansion project in New Mexico. The move allows the company to add 375 MMcf/d to its system.

In the wake of last summer’s pipeline mishaps in Arizona, the federal Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) agreed earlier this month to allow unlimited inspections on Kinder Morgan pipelines in the state, according to an announcement Wednesday from the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC).

Following the announcement of a 72 Bcf storage injection, the June natural gas futures contract jumped 9 cents from $6.27 to trade at $6.36 as of 10:39 a.m, revisiting the high set on Tuesday. However, the contract then worked lower for the entire afternoon, trading within the $6.19-6.29 range, before settling at $6.219, down 9.1 cents on the day.

A district court judge in Montana has ruled that the state of Wyoming and various producers may intervene in support of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which is defending its major environmental impact statements (EIS) and decisions earlier this year allowing a massive increase in coalbed methane drilling in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana (see Daily GPI, May 5).

Responding to a court order, FERC last Wednesday said that it would allow parties in the ongoing California refund proceedings at the agency to conduct discovery over the next 100 days into alleged market manipulation by various sellers during the western power crisis of 2000-2001.

The United States Bankruptcy Court in New York has approved the sale of two of Enron North America’s gas purchase agreements to Occidental Energy Marketing, Inc. (Oxy), which will assume responsibility for supply agreements with Peoples Energy utility subsidiaries The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. and North Shore Gas effective April 1.

A federal judge in Washington, DC, issued an order Monday that would allow the Department of Interior to reconnect to the Internet certain information technology (IT) systems that don’t contain and provide access to data on individual Indian trust accounts.

In a shift that allows energy businesses to customize their online trading, Altra Energy Technologies Inc. has partnered with a California e-business provider to give customers the ability to set up private trading exchanges online. Altra’s alliance with @TheMoment of San Mateo, CA will give companies more control over their online trading floors, allowing them to set up direct sales online, through forward auction and live bid/ask exchange applications.