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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar signaled Friday that he cannot revisit his decision to shelve 77 oil and natural gas leases near national parks in Utah until Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT) releases his hold on agency nominees.

Passage of the revised $700 billion rescue plan for financial markets in the House remains the big unknown. House Majority Leader Steny Hoy (D-MD) said he will not call up the package Friday unless he is assured of passage, CQ Today reported.

California cannot afford the high costs and risks of added nuclear electric generation plants or a first-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along its coast, according to the chair of the state Assembly’s Utilities and Commerce Committee Lloyd Levine. In addition, Levine doesn’t seen any significant state energy legislation being passed this year.

California cannot afford the high costs and risks of added nuclear electric generation plants or a first-ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along its coast, according to the chair of the lower house state Assembly’s Utilities and Commerce Committee, Lloyd Levine.

Tennessee Gas lifted its operational flow order action alert in its market zones (0, L, 1, 2 and 3), but maintained the alert in the market area (zones 4, 5 and 6). Actual daily flow rates cannot exceed 2% or 500 Dth, whichever is greater, of scheduled quantities or else the shipper will pay a 22 cents/Dth penalty.

Indicating that linepack is rising to undesirable levels, Texas Eastern said effective Wednesday until further notice it cannot accept requests for resolution of incremental due-pipe imbalances or creation of due-shipper imbalances. Customers need to resolve existing due-shipper imbalances, Texas Eastern said, adding that it will force balance TABS-1 pools or restrict the system as required.

Dominion issued OFOs for Friday that require shippers to conform their transportation and storage services to scheduled nominations. Dominion said it cannot tolerate excess receipts into its system because they jeopardize its ability to receive gas for injection into storage as required by Dominion’s service agreements and tariff. Customers under Rate Schedules FT, IT or MCS are affected by the first OFO and will be charged $10/Dth penalties for failure to stay within a 2% tolerance from scheduled nominations. In the second OFO, Dominion also required customers under Rate Schedules FT and GSS to conform their deliveries to nominated volumes, with the same tolerance and penalties as the first OFO applicable. However, such customers may elect to inject physical transportation overdeliveries into storage and to withdraw underdeliveries from storage to the extent authorized under their contracts (subject to applicable nomination requirements), the pipeline said. Dominion also warned all customers that “have injected or will inject unauthorized quantities of gas” exceeding their Maximum Daily Injection Quantity (MDIQ) must reduce injections to their MDIQ within 24 hours, effective with the start of Friday’s gas day until further notice. Failure to comply will result in a Daily Injection Unauthorized Overrun Charge, currently $63.58 cents per dekatherm of overinjection.

Noting that the United States cannot conserve its way out of the perilous natural gas supply situation, a major gas distribution group and several mostly offshore groups have called on the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) to open up many of the off-limit areas of the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to production in its upcoming five-year (2007-2012) leasing plan for offshore energy development.

Noting that the United States cannot conserve its way out of the perilous natural gas supply situation, a major gas distribution group has called on the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) to open up many of the off-limit areas in the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to production in its upcoming five-year (2007-2012) leasing plan for energy development in the offshore.