Cancellation

The outlook for U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports is slowly improving as fewer cargo cancellations and increasing feed gas deliveries are likely in the months ahead.  Analysts at Goldman Sachs said Monday that they’re comfortable keeping their forecast for feed gas deliveries to U.S. export terminals from August to October at 4.3, 6 and…

As red maple leaves and frosty mornings herald the onset of heating season in Quebec, distributor Gaz Metro Inc. (GMI) is asking for cancellation of a pipeline safety directive that could make fall extra chilly for French Canadian natural gas consumers.

As red maple leaves and frosty mornings herald the onset of heating season in Quebec, distributor Gaz Metro Inc. (GMI) is asking for cancellation of a pipeline safety directive that could make fall extra chilly for French Canadian natural gas consumers.

Tennessee lifted Monday a systemwide Imbalance Warning that had been implemented two days earlier.

While heavy snows forced cancellation of workshops for another utility’s rate case, the three members of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) huddled in Boise Tuesday and approved a 4.7% rate decrease for Spokane, WA-based Avista Utilities’ 72,000 retail natural gas customers in northern and north-central Idaho.

The cancellation of plans for eight pulverized coal-fired power plants by TXU Corp. last week means yet still greater reliance on gas-fired power generation in Texas, where about 70% of active capacity in the state is gas fired, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

The cancellation of plans for eight pulverized coal-fired power plants by TXU Corp. means yet still greater reliance on gas-fired power generation in Texas, where 70% of active capacity in the state’s Electric Reliability Council (ERCOT) is gas fired.

In light of the lingering safety concerns, real or perceived, over LNG and the cancellation of four proposed LNG terminals due to local opposition, Lehman Brothers is forecasting that only three new liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals, out of a total of about 40 proposed terminals, will be built in North America by 2010 for a total of seven operating terminals.

“Our charge was to go out on the attack and learn about operations ina deregulated setting. We were funded as a pilot and we operated that way.We did very little advertising. Our goal was not to become a rapid expansion-typecompany,” said Jean Redfield, president of DTE Edison America.