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Kern River Gas Transmission plans to carry out another expansion of its system to California, providing an outlet for more Rocky Mountain natural gas, if California regulators next month order state utilities to turn back capacity on the El Paso Natural Gas and Transwestern pipeline systems in order to provide supply diversity for California consumers, said an official for the pipeline Wednesday.

Expedited permitting to carry out repairs on natural gas pipelines is the biggest challenge facing pipe operators as they try to comply with the Office of Pipeline Safety’s (OPS) integrity management rule, an industry official representing gas distributors and municipal utilities told Senate lawmakers last Tuesday.

Expedited permitting to carry out repairs on natural gas pipelines is the biggest challenge facing pipe operators as they try to comply with the Office of Pipeline Safety’s (OPS) integrity management rule, an industry official representing gas distributors and municipal utilities told Senate lawmakers Tuesday.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Wednesday issued a certificate to ANR Pipeline to carry out a compression expansion on its system to increase deliveries to customers in Wisconsin.

Transwestern Pipeline got environmental clearance at FERC last Wednesday to carry out a looping and compression expansion of its San Juan lateral to transport up to 375 MMcf/d of new production from the San Juan Basin and other producing areas in the Rocky Mountain region.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Wednesday issued a certificate to ANR Pipeline to carry out a compression expansion on its system to increase deliveries to customers in Wisconsin.

Transwestern Pipeline got environmental clearance at FERC Wednesday to carry out a looping and compression expansion of its San Juan lateral to transport up to 375 MMcf/d of new production from the San Juan Basin and other producing areas in the Rocky Mountain region.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has named Jim Larson its new CFO. He also will also continue to carry the title of senior vice president of finance. Larson will report to Anadarko’s newly named CEO Jim Hackett. “Jim Larson has been a valued member of Anadarko’s management team for many years and I’m looking forward to working with him in his new role,” Hackett said. “I’m confident his depth of knowledge and broad financial experience will serve the company well.” Larson joined Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. (the former parent of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.) in 1981 as assistant director of taxes and was promoted to director of taxes in 1982. In 1983 he was named assistant controller of Anadarko and was promoted to controller in 1986. In 1995 he added the title of vice president and was named senior vice president in 2002.

President Bush late Thursday vowed his administration would carry out an investigation to find out what triggered the cascading power blackouts that pulled the plug on up to 50 million people in New York City and other major cities across the Northeast, Midwest and in eastern Canada last week (see related story). Energy experts and analysts believe an aging electricity infrastructure was to blame. But a definitive answer, some say, could take weeks or months.