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A federal judge has revised a decision prohibiting producers from conducting seismic studies offshore Alaska in the Chukchi Sea, clearing the way for U.S. affiliates of Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil ASA to move forward on long-planned tests.

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) supervisors exerted no pressure on staff to complete resource management plans (RMP) and did not violate any federal laws before conducting the controversial December 2008 natural gas and oil lease sale in Utah, the Interior Department’s inspector general (IG) said in a report.

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) supervisors exerted no pressure on staff to complete resource management plans (RMP) and did not violate any federal laws before conducting the controversial December 2008 natural gas and oil lease sale in Utah, the Interior Department’s inspector general (IG) said in a report.

Attorney General Eric Holder last Tuesday said the government is conducting criminal and civil investigations into the spewing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, which is now moving into its seventh week.

Algonquin Gas Transmission (AGT) will be conducting Department of Transportation-mandated pipeline investigations on its G-System through gas day May 22. During these investigations AGT will be required to lower its operating pressure on the G-system to 575 psig. The pipeline said customers/point operators should be aware of the impact of nonratable takes from the system, which may cause delivery pressures to reach lower than desired levels. Accordingly, AGT requests that customers/point operators in this region minimize nonratable take patterns during this outage.

Enbridge Inc. said it is conducting a nonbinding open season for gas storage and transportation services in the Midwest through its subsidiaries Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. and Niagara Gas Transmission Ltd. Enbridge said the open season will allow the company to assess development of incremental gas storage capacity/services at Enbridge Gas Distribution’s Tecumseh facility in southwestern Ontario near the Dawn gas trading hub and developing incremental transportation capacity on the Corunna-Tecumseh-Dawn pathway. Enbridge said it has a range of gas storage and transportation development options, “which can be put into place in a timely basis to take advantage of market opportunities such as U.S. shale gas and gas-fired generation.” The open season closes March 26. Information is available at www.enbridge.com/gasexpansion.

Enbridge Inc. said it is conducting a nonbinding open season for gas storage and transportation services in the Midwest through its subsidiaries Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. and Niagara Gas Transmission Ltd. Enbridge said the open season will allow the company to assess development of incremental gas storage capacity/services at Enbridge Gas Distribution’s Tecumseh facility in southwestern Ontario near the Dawn gas trading hub and developing incremental transportation capacity on the Corunna-Tecumseh-Dawn pathway. Enbridge said it has a range of gas storage and transportation development options, “which can be put into place in a timely basis to take advantage of market opportunities such as U.S. shale gas and gas-fired generation.” The open season closes March 26. Information is available at www.enbridge.com/gasexpansion.

On-again, off-again natural gas storage interest in Arizona is on again, with two proposed underground facilities conducting nonbinding open seasons that a former storage proponent in the state, El Paso Natural Gas Co., is monitoring, although it has no equity interest in either proposal.

On-again, off-again natural gas storage interest in Arizona is on again, with two proposed underground facilities conducting nonbinding open seasons that a former storage proponent in the state, El Paso Natural Gas Co., is monitoring, although it has no equity interest in either proposal.