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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) plans to completely cut out or scale back a number of its energy analysis programs due to a 14% reduction in its budget for the current fiscal year.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) plans to cut out completely or scale back a number of its energy analysis programs due to a 14% reduction in its budget for the current fiscal year.

President Bush last Tuesday signed a $630 billion stopgap funding measure that ended the decades-old moratorium on offshore oil and natural gas drilling and one-year ban on oil shale development in the Intermountain West. Surprisingly there was little reaction from producers, who have long sought expanded offshore access, due largely to the fact the upheaval in the financial markets has overtaken events Producers also realize that, given that there will be a changing of the guard at the White House and possibly in Congress, the removal of the bans could be short term.

Nuclear power generation is mature and will be part of the generation mix needed to meet a 45% increase in the nation’s power consumption by 2025, two nuclear power veterans and executives with Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) told NGI last Thursday.

Noting that the publication of its Gas Quality Policy Statement (PL04-03) “was not a pretext for pipelines to completely revamp the gas quality and interchangeability standards in their tariffs,” FERC recently rejected an attempt by Northern Natural Gas to make major changes in its quality standards specifications and in the manner those standards are applied or waived.

The Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) may be the super highway for natural gas when it is completely ramped up, but pipeline competitors already are forecasting a gap between the ever-growing production in the Rocky Mountains and takeaway demand, which together will require another major pipe system within three or four years.

The Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) may be the super highway for natural gas when it is completely ramped up, but pipeline competitors already are forecasting a gap between the ever-growing production in the Rocky Mountains and takeaway demand, which together will require another major pipe system within three or four years.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) signaled last Monday that he was not completely satisfied with FERC’s response to a Senate inquiry into whether traders of natural gas futures contracts are engaging in market manipulation tactics to drive up the prices ultimately paid by end-use gas consumers.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) signaled Monday that he was not completely satisfied with FERC’s response to a Senate inquiry into whether traders of natural gas futures contracts are engaging in market manipulation tactics to drive up the prices ultimately paid by end-use gas consumers.