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Bluewater Gas Storage has applied to FERC for authorization to construct and operate a 300 MMcf/d pipeline to maintain the U.S. portion of a connection between its facilities in St. Clair County, MI, and an existing pipeline in St. Clair Township, Ontario.

U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday reiterated the importance of natural gas to the Obama administration’s energy and job-creation programs. Salazar said his department is very active in efforts to boost gas development both on and offshore in the United States.

The Interior Department said Tuesday it will take another pass at the rules set by the last administration for extracting shale oil from two million acres of federal land in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, with the possibility of cutting the acreage total and raising royalties.

Inergy subsidiary Central New York Oil and Gas LLC (CNYOG) has applied to FERC for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to construct and operate the MARC I Hub Line, a proposed 30-inch diameter bidirectional pipeline in Bradford, Sullivan and Lycoming counties in Pennsylvania.

Inergy subsidiary Central New York Oil and Gas LLC (CNYOG) has applied to FERC for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to construct and operate the MARC I Hub Line, a proposed 30-inch diameter bidirectional pipeline in Bradford, Sullivan and Lycoming counties in Pennsylvania.

While the six-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) announced last week applied only to deepwater projects, the Interior Department clarified late Thursday that all drilling in shallow water also was being shut down until operators complied with new safety rules and inspections, outlined by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Freeport LNG has applied at FERC to construct and operate a natural gas liquids (NGL) extraction system at the Quintana Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Texas. Adding the capability to extract NGLs would broaden the terminal’s options among global LNG supplies and improve the pipeline-readiness of regasified LNG, Freeport LNG said.

Freeport LNG has applied at FERC to construct and operate a natural gas liquids (NGL) extraction system at the Quintana Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification terminal in Texas.

Washington Gas Light Co. (WGL) has applied to the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) to combine its winter gas hedging program and a pilot summer storage gas financial hedging program the company started in 2006.