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The Senate last Tuesday passed a sweeping, bipartisan energy bill, bringing the Congress to the critical, do-or-die point of trying to reconcile the widely divergent House and Senate versions of the energy measure. Congress has failed at this task twice in recent years.

The Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping, bipartisan energy bill, bringing the Congress to the critical, do-or-die point of trying to reconcile the widely divergent House and Senate versions of the energy measure. Congress has failed at this task twice in recent years.

Vector Pipeline announced plans to add 500 MMcf/d of firm transportation capacity to its system, bringing total capacity to 1.5 Bcf/d. The company is holding a binding open season to test market interest in the 2007 expansion project, which will involve the construction of up to three additional compressor stations.

Vector Pipeline announced plans to add 500 MMcf/d of firm transportation capacity to its system, bringing total capacity to 1.5 Bcf/d. The company is holding a binding open season to test market interest in the 2007 expansion project, which will involve the construction of up to three additional compressor stations.

A bipartisan group of five powerful House lawmakers on Monday called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to undertake an investigation of the “vulnerabilities” of tankers bringing liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) into U.S. harbors to attacks by terrorists, as well as the efforts by governmental and private sector entities to step up security.

Bringing some form of reasonableness back to the natural gas futures complex, the November contract started the week by giving back a small percentage of the sizeable gain recorded last week. The prompt month, which expires Wednesday, settled down 21.5 cents at $7.89.

Bringing some form of reasonableness back to the natural gas futures complex, the November contract started the week by giving back a small percentage of the sizeable gain recorded last week. The prompt month, which expires Wednesday, settled down 21.5 cents at $7.89.

A new coalition of energy industry associations in Canada this week called on that country’s energy ministers to encourage investment in energy supply along with increasing energy efficiency to meet Canada’s future energy needs in a sustainable manner.

Williams said that a unit of Willbros Group has completed a 350 MMcf/d expansion project at the Opal, WY, gas processing plant, bringing processing capacity to 1.1 Bcf/d. The expansion accommodates new production by affiliates of Shell Exploration & Production in southwestern Wyoming’s Pinedale Anticline.