Backs

The race for the vacant Republican seat at FERC is gettingawfully crowded as a third candidate from Capitol Hill has signaledhis interest in the post.

The race for the vacant Republican seat at FERC is gettingawfully crowded as a third candidate from Capitol Hill has signaledhis interest in the post.

Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-ID) said last week he plans to supporthis long-time energy aide, Nils Johnson, to succeed formerCommissioner Vicky Bailey at the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission.

FERC staff has recommended that the full Commission approve anaccord under which El Paso Natural Gas has agreed to pay SouthernCalifornia Edison $32 million and make certain rate concessions topreserve its 1996 capacity-turnback settlement.

After almost 18 months of detailed proceedings and negativelegislative signals, California regulators have pulled backsubstantially from original proposals to unbundle the state’snatural gas industry along the lines of the state’s electricderegulation.

After almost 18 months of detailed proceedings and negativelegislative signals, California regulators have pulled backsubstantially from original proposals to unbundle the state’snatural gas industry along the lines of its electric deregulation.

Amoco likes auctions but advocates removing price caps only inthe very short-term (intra-month) transportation capacity market,according to a lengthy filing made at FERC last week by AmocoProduction and Amoco Energy Trading

In a lengthy filing at FERC earlier this week, Amoco Productionand Amoco Energy Trading registered their strong support for thecontroversial auction of capacity in both the short-term andlong-term transportation markets.

A FERC administrative law judge (ALJ) has agreedTranscontinental Gas Pipe Line was well within its rights when itdenied ANR Pipeline an additional interconnection to its mainlinesystem in Louisiana, saying that Transco’s action did notdiscriminate, violate antitrust principles or cause ANR to losebusiness.