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SGR Holdings LLC said Wednesday the sale of a 40% stake in the proposed 16 Bcf Southern Pines Energy Center, a new salt dome gas storage project located in Greene County, MS, to ArcLight Capital Partners has enabled the company to begin construction on the storage field. The first phase is expected to provide 8 Bcf of working gas capacity in summer 2007.

The Center for Liquefied Natural Gas (CLNG) said Tuesday new data shows the actual impact of offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects on marine life in the Gulf of Mexico will be “substantially less” than originally identified by environmental analyses. CLNG arrived at its findings following an independent ecological review of the analyses.

As tropical storms continue to pop up in the Atlantic, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Monday that if the final storm name of the season — Wilma — is used up, the Greek alphabet will then kick in with Alpha, Beta, Gamma and so forth.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Hurricane Center (NHC) did everything it could during the lead-up to Hurricane Katrina’s landfall on Aug. 29, but the agency vowed that it continues to look for more precise methods on forecasting and landfall predictions.

Timely and balanced regulatory decisions have returned to center stage in the assessment of credit ratings for various U.S. utilities, according to the latest analysis by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. For the immediate future, upgrades and downgrades of ratings should stay relatively balanced, S&P said in its “Industry Report Card: U.S. Electric/Water/Gas.”

Federal versus states rights took center stage during the second day of mark-up of comprehensive energy legislation before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Tuesday.

Ingleside Energy Center LLC’s proposal to build and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast and a companion proposal to construct pipeline facilities would have “limited adverse environmental impact,” FERC staff said last Thursday in its draft environmental impact statement on the related projects.

Ingleside Energy Center LLC’s proposal to build and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast and a companion proposal to construct pipeline facilities would have “limited adverse environmental impact,” FERC staff said Thursday in its draft environmental impact statement on the related projects.

Berlin, CT-based Yankee Gas broke ground Thursday on a new $108 million 1.2 Bcf LNG peak shaving facility at the company’s Eagle Street work center in Waterbury, CT’s south end. The plant, which recently received construction approval from the Connecticut Department of Utility Control, is expected to be in service for the 2007/2008 heating season.