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New England natural gas officials and key distributors predict that the region will have ample gas supplies to meet this winter’s heating demand, even if the existing embargo on liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers into Boston Harbor should remain in effect for a prolonged period.

Natural gas and crude oil prices will rise in the short term, but aren’t likely to be significantly affected in the longer term as the result of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C., according to Raymond James & Associates.

Results aren’t going to be as pretty as had been expected this fiscal year, ending Oct. 31, North Carolina’s Piedmont Natural Gas said, but customers are coming back as gas prices go down, and the distributor is looking for better times ahead.

Results aren’t going to be as pretty as had been expected this fiscal year, ending Oct. 31, North Carolina’s Piedmont Natural Gas said, but customers are coming back as gas prices go down, and the distributor is looking for better times ahead.

Although they have gotten much of the blame, retail rate capsaren’t the reason that California’s power market has spiraled outof control since last summer, a state consumer advocate told aHouse panel yesterday.

Florida’s onerous restrictions on new power plant construction aren’t holding back Calpine Corp. The company announced it has signed a contract to supply power from a new 540 MW combined cycle plant to Tampa-based Seminole Electric Cooperative.

Florida’s onerous restrictions on new power plant constructionaren’t holding back Calpine Corp. The company announced it hassigned a contract to supply power from a new 540 MW combined cycleplant to Tampa-based Seminole Electric Cooperative.

Ohio and Pennsylvania landowners aren’t convinced the precedentagreements submitted by the sponsors of the proposed IndependencePipeline last month provide “sufficient evidence” of marketsupport, and have asked FERC to deny the greenfield pipelineproject a certificate when it takes up the case this week.

Storage operators aren’t being left behind as the industryprepares for rapid gas demand growth. NGI’s new survey and map ofNorth America’s gas storage operations shows new storage fields andexpansions cropping up all over the continent, and according to anew study by the Gas Research Institute, this is only the beginningof what will be needed as gas demand grows beyond 30 Tcf/year.