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Duke Energy’s Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) pipeline announced last Monday that it is conducting an open season to test shipper interest in an expansion project that would transport natural gas from prolific western supply basins in North America to energy-hungry markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Duke Energy Gas Transmission’s (DEGT) Texas Eastern Transmission LP unit is conducting an open season to gauge market interest in its proposed Lebanon East Expansion project in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The project would be designed to provide new gas transportation capacity in the Northeast for gas arriving in Ohio from the Rocky Mountain region via a new cross-country pipeline planned by Sempra Energy and Kinder Morgan (see Daily GPI, Nov. 22).

Entergy Services Inc., on behalf of the Entergy affiliates conducting power sales in the Entergy control area, notified FERC that it was withdrawing the Entergy affiliates’ pending request for renewal of market-based rate authority for transactions in the Entergy control area [ER91-569-023, et al].

In an effort to gauge interest in a possible expansion of its storage facilities in Northern California, Lodi Gas Storage LLC (LGS) said it is conducting an open season for additional firm natural gas storage services.

In an effort to gauge interest in a possible expansion of its storage facilities in Northern California, Lodi Gas Storage LLC (LGS) said it is conducting an open season for additional firm natural gas storage services.

Unocal Windy Hill Gas Storage LLC is conducting a nonbinding open season through May 18 for 6 Bcf of future natural gas storage capacity at a facility planned on its Windy Hill property in Morgan County, CO. The new facility would be the first bedded salt underground gas storage facility in Colorado.

Unocal Windy Hill Gas Storage LLC is conducting a nonbinding open season through May 18 for 6 Bcf of future natural gas storage capacity at a facility planned on its Windy Hill property in Morgan County, CO. The new facility would be the first bedded salt underground gas storage facility in Colorado.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) last Thursday said he was “strongly” thinking about conducting a “very open markup” of HR 6, last year’s failed energy bill, in order to improve upon and update the measure to win broad bipartisan support in the House.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) on Thursday said he was “strongly, strongly, strongly” thinking about conducting a “very open markup” of HR 6, last year’s failed energy bill, in order to improve upon and update the measure to win broad bipartisan support in the House.