Communities

Residents in nine northeast Ohio communities have to decide by Monday (Oct. 6) whether to join or withdraw from the Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC), an energy aggregator, which was set up to provide natural gas to customers.

Columbia Gas of Virginia reported late Thursday it had restored natural gas service to 84% of the nearly 4,000 customers in a Virginia suburb who were affected earlier this week when a delivery station near Dulles Airport lost pressure, forcing utility workers to go from home to home to shut off meters to prevent gas from leaking or other potential mishaps until pressure returned.

In reaction to requests from both the commercial and large speculative trading fund communities, Nymex is ready to launch — possibly as soon as Friday — large order execution (LOX) trading for natural gas, which attempts to match buyers and sellers willing to trade lots of between 250 and 5,000 contracts. Similar to the current open-outcry trading for smaller lots, LOX trading will be conducted in the pit and will be supported by a LOX bookkeeper who will announce quotes, match buyers with sellers and facilitate the order execution.

The natural gas is waiting, the communities are willing and theauthorities are prepared to co-operate any time producers andpipelines want to revive development in the Canadian north, theindustry is being told.

The natural gas is waiting, the communities are willing and theauthorities are prepared to co-operate any time producers andpipelines want to revive development in the Canadian north, theindustry is being told.

Gas has started flowing to industrial, residential and municipalcustomers on Tengasco Inc.’s East Tennessee pipeline system. TheEast Tennessee communities of Sneedville and Rogersville beganreceiving service one day after the State of Tennessee RegulatoryAuthority issued a permit allowing Tengasco to open the valves ofits 28-mile line. The line, which gathers Appalachian productionand carries it directly to endusers, currently is supplying about10 MMcf/d, but at maximum capacity can provide 48 MMcf/d.