Appellate

FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff and the American Gas Association (AGA) scored a victory Friday when the D.C. appellate court remanded a prior order denying AGA’s request for expanded reporting of natural gas that shippers provide to interstate pipelines.

FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff and the American Gas Association (AGA) scored a victory Friday when the DC appellate court remanded a prior order denying AGA’s request for expanded reporting of natural gas that shippers provide to interstate pipelines.

All eyes remained on the Department of Interior last week to see how it would interpret a recent appellate court decision, which threw out the five-year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing plan for 2007-2012, but the agency was silent on the issue. The decision threatens to upset the current offshore leasing schedule and raises questions about sales that already have been completed under the plan (see NGI, April 20).

All eyes are on the Department of Interior to see how it interprets Friday’s appellate court decision, which threw out the five-year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing plan for 2007-2012. The decision threatens to upset the current offshore leasing schedule and raises questions about sales that already have been completed under the plan (see Daily GPI, April 20).

Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling, whose 2006 convictions were upheld by a three-judge appellate panel earlier this month, has appealed the decision to the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

The embattled Islander East Pipeline took another punch in the stomach last Wednesday when a federal appellate court in New York affirmed a lower court’s decision that blocks the Connecticut-to-Long Island project from going forward.

The embattled Islander East Pipeline got another punch in the stomach Wednesday when a federal appellate court in New York affirmed a lower court’s decision that blocks the Connecticut-to-Long Island project from going forward.

Acting on remands from two separate appellate courts, FERC last Thursday upheld a prior order declaring part of Transcontinental Gas Pipeline’s (Transco) pipeline network located onshore and offshore Louisiana to be transmission in nature and thus subject to agency jurisdiction, but it reversed itself on Jupiter Energy Corp. and found its small pipeline offshore Louisiana to be exempt gathering.

Acting on remands from two separate appellate courts, FERC Thursday upheld a prior order declaring part of Transcontinental Gas Pipeline’s (Transco) pipeline network located onshore and offshore Louisiana to be transmission in nature and thus subject to agency jurisdiction, but it reversed itself on Jupiter Energy Corp. and found its small pipeline offshore Louisiana to be exempt gathering.