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The Minerals Management Service (MMS) said it has given broad approval for use of the world’s first cell spar in a deepwater oil and gas project. The third generation of spar technology reduces the reserve threshold needed for a stand-alone economic development in deep waters.

Over the objections of its former president, the California Public Utilities Commission Thursday approved on a 4-1 vote a $6.7 million performance-based ratemaking (PBR) award for San Diego Gas and Electric Co. under its incentive mechanism for buying natural gas supplies.

As winter temperatures in the Northeast plunged to single digits, the Senate overwhelmingly approved Tuesday a $300 million increase in federal assistance to help low-income heating customers pay their utility bills throughout 2003.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved a plan to correct natural gas customer billing errors that caused approximately 25,800 Washington Gas Light (WGL) customers to be overbilled or underbilled. The errors occurred over the past 10 years.

The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) approved a plan last week to correct natural gas customer billing errors that caused approximately 25,800 Washington Gas Light (WGL) customers to be overbilled or underbilled. The errors occurred over the past 10 years.

A major barrier to the construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals has been lifted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in a preliminary approval of the nation’s first new LNG import terminal in 25 years.

A major barrier to the construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals has been lifted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in a preliminary approval of the nation’s first new LNG import terminal in 25 years.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO) last week signed off on Vectren Energy Delivery of Ohio’s (VEDO) selection of Interstate Gas Supply Inc. (IGS) as the alternative natural gas supplier for the company’s Percentage of Payment Plan (PIPP) customers.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has voted to issue a preliminary determination (PD) to Greenbrier Pipeline Co. LLC’s $497 million pipeline project that, when completed, would serve the natural gas demands of the burgeoning power generation market in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, primarily in Virginia and North Carolina (CP02-396).