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The Energy Information Administration (EIA), in its Short-Term Energy Outlook for June, again raised its projection for the average spot price of natural gas this year — by 7% to an average of $6.20/Mcf from the $5.80/Mcf that it had projected last month.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA), in its Short-Term Energy Outlook for June, again raised its projection for the average spot price of natural gas this year — by 7% to an average of $6.20/Mcf from the $5.80/Mcf that it had projected last month.

Sempra Energy LNG got the green light from FERC last Monday to use the agency’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) pre-filing process for its proposed $600 million import terminal in Port Arthur, TX, and associated pipeline project.

Sempra Energy LNG got the green light from FERC Monday to use the agency’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) pre-filing process for its proposed $600 million import terminal in Port Arthur, TX, and associated pipeline project.

FERC has ordered Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Inc., formerly Williams Gas Pipelines Central, to respond to the agency’s “concerns about the progress” on the pipeline company’s lateral project in Kansas and Missouri.

A 30-member stakeholder coalition of energy companies, industrial customers, publishers, exchanges and industry trade associations Wednesday cited new data showing increased reporting to index publishers as “evidence of increased transparency in the nation’s natural gas markets.”

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed $88 million in budget cuts for energy efficiency research and development in fiscal 2005 marks a “retreat” from the agency’s prior commitment to tackle escalating natural gas prices, said the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) last week.

TransCanada PipeLines’ preliminary investigations have indicated external corrosion was the likely cause of two ruptures in a 36-inch NOVA line pipeline in northwest Alberta last Monday and Tuesday that has closed down about 800 MMcf/d of throughput.

TransCanada PipeLines’ preliminary investigations have indicated external corrosion was the likely cause of two ruptures in a 36-inch NOVA line pipeline in northwest Alberta Monday and Tuesday that has closed down about 800 MMcf/d of throughput.