Amending

FERC Tuesday issued an order amending Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC’s presidential permit so that it can export, as well as import, natural gas through its cross-border pipeline facilities at the U.S.-Canadian border.

A municipal natural gas group has called on President-elect Obama to support amending Section 5 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) to address a “fatal flaw” that prevents customers from collecting retroactive refunds when they have been overcharged by pipelines.

A municipal natural gas group has called on President-elect Obama to support amending Section 5 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) to address a “fatal flaw” that prevents customers from collecting retroactive refunds when they have been overcharged by pipelines.

The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has proposed amending its existing regulations for reporting production and royalties on crude oil, natural gas, coal and geothermal resources produced on federal and Indian leases in order to align the agency’s regulations with its current business practices.

The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) on Friday proposed amending its existing regulations for reporting production and royalties on crude oil, natural gas, coal and geothermal resources produced on federal and Indian leases in order to align the agency’s regulations with its current business practices.

FERC on Friday issued an order amending Total Peaking Services LLC’s 1997 certificate to increase the sendout capacity of the company’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) peak-shaving facility in Connecticut to 90 MMcf/d from 72 MMcf/d.

FERC on Tuesday issued an order to Wyckoff Gas Storage Co. LLC, a subsidiary of Greyhawk Gas Storage Co., amending the company’s 2003 FERC certificate to build and operate a 6 Bcf working gas storage facility in western New York state.

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) issued a final rule Thursday amending existing regulations for natural gas valuation for royalty purposes, increasing the rate of return used in valuing non-arm’s-length transportation from 1.0 to 1.3 times the Standard and Poor’s BBB Industrial Bond rate, and clarifying other parts of the transportation deduction from the sale price of gas. The final rule substantially followed the lines of the proposed rule for collection of royalties from federal lands issued last year (see NGI, July 26, 2004).

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) issued a final rule Thursday amending existing regulations for natural gas valuation for royalty purposes, increasing the rate of return used in valuing non-arm’s-length transportation from 1.0 to 1.3 times the Standard and Poor’s BBB Industrial Bond rate, and clarifying other parts of the transportation deduction from the sale price of gas. The final rule substantially followed the lines of the proposed rule for collection of royalties from federal lands issued last year (see Daily GPI, July 26, 2004).