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A federal judge in Wyoming has overturned water quality rules that gas producers and the state had alleged were too restrictive and not based on complete consideration of related science by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The rules were intended to protect cropland in Montana from the downstream discharge of water from Powder River Basin coalbed methane (CBM) production.

The natural gas futures roller-coaster ride, complete with ups and downs, continued into a new week as the October contract — fresh off of a 32-cent jump Friday — dropped 20.2 cents Monday to close at $3.576.

Shell Offshore Inc.’s exploration plan for two leases in the Beaufort Sea has been deemed complete by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS). The agency has 30 days to evaluate the plan.

FERC Tuesday granted a request of Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG LLC for a seven-month delay to complete and place into service its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal that is under construction near Hackberry, LA.

FERC Thursday upheld its October remand order that allowed Dominion Cove Point LP and Dominion Transmission Inc. to complete an expansion of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on Maryland’s eastern shore and associated pipeline facilities, while at the same time barring the delivery of additional regasified LNG volumes to Washington Gas Light’s (WGL) distribution system to shield it from further leaks.

Tenaska Inc. has regained complete control of its natural gas marketing arm, Tenaska Marketing Ventures (TMV), after completing a repurchase from affiliates of American International Group Inc. (AIG), which owned a half stake. Financial details of the purchase, which included Tenaska Gas Storage and Tenaska Marketing Canada, were not disclosed.

More than 10 years after the project was first proposed, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC plans to complete construction of the 182-mile, 30-inch diameter Millennium natural gas pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and lower Hudson Valley by Dec. 1 and the pipeline could begin carrying gas as soon as that same day, a company spokesman said last Wednesday.

More than 10 years after the project was first proposed, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC plans to complete construction of the 182-mile, 30-inch diameter Millennium natural gas pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and lower Hudson Valley by Dec. 1 and the pipeline could begin carrying gas as soon as that same day, a company spokesman said Wednesday.

Friday’s market was almost a complete reversal of the trend over the previous two days. This time prices were up in most of the East, while the Midcontinent and most of the West recorded large losses. Growing heating load in the Northeast and the previous day’s futures advance of 11.1 cents were chiefly responsible for the firmness. The softness could be attributed to declines in both heating and cooling demand and the drop of industrial load during a weekend.