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Industry Coalition Cites Improved Gas Price Reporting, Supports Indexes

A 30-member stakeholder coalition of energy companies, industrial customers, publishers, exchanges and industry trade associations Wednesday cited new data showing increased reporting to index publishers as “evidence of increased transparency in the nation’s natural gas markets.”

March 11, 2004

Unresolved Allocation Issue Lingers in CA Court Approval of $1.6B El Paso Settlement

California’s large industrial customers are fighting over El Paso’s $1.6 billion settlement payment, which was approved earlier this month by a California Superior Court in San Diego. The state attoney general’s office confirmed that it is the largest antitrust class action settlement in the state’s history.

December 15, 2003

El Paso Ordered to Give Full Credit for Deliveries Interrupted by Scheduled Maintenance

El Paso Natural Gas customers scored a key victory when FERC rejected a tariff proposal that would have allowed the pipeline to credit shippers with only partial reservation charges in the event a scheduled maintenance kept it from delivering natural gas.

December 8, 2003

El Paso Ordered to Give Full Credit for Deliveries Interrupted by Scheduled Maintenance

El Paso Natural Gas customers scored a key victory Friday when FERC rejected a tariff proposal that would have allowed the pipeline to credit shippers with only partial reservation charges in the event a scheduled maintenance prevented it from delivering natural gas.

December 2, 2003

NPC Study Sees Widely Varying Load for Canadian Pipes Through 2025

Canadian pipelines and their customers stand warned, by the United States National Petroleum Council, to expect wide swings in excess capacity and associated pressure on tolls as the North American natural gas market struggles to stay in balance through 2025.

October 27, 2003

Transportation Notes

Florida Gas Transmission did not continue an Overage Alert Day notice for its market area beyond Tuesday, but alerted customers that one could be reinstituted Thursday to keep linepack from falling too low.

October 9, 2003

Transportation Notes

Only a day after lifting an Overage Alert Day notice for market-area customers, Florida Gas Transmission issued another one Thursday with 20% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

August 29, 2003

Transportation Notes

Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day notice Monday for market-area customers. It carried a 10% tolerance for negative daily imbalances.

August 26, 2003

Kern River Cuts Demand Charges to Expansion Shippers by 8-11%

Kern River Gas Transmission is sending its 2003 expansion customers a little something extra in its “Thank You” notes for signing up for nearly 900 MMcf/d of new gas transportation capacity to Nevada and California markets from western Wyoming. The company said it is decreasing demand charges by 11.4% for 15-year expansion shippers and by 8.2% for 10-year expansion shippers. The proposed rate reductions reflect the lower interest rates in the final debt refinancing of the expansion, which went into service on May 1.

May 19, 2003

Kern River Cuts Demand Charges to Expansion Shippers by 8-11%

Kern River Gas Transmission is sending its 2003 expansion customers a little something extra in their “Thank You” notes for signing up for nearly 900 MMcf/d of new gas transportation capacity to Nevada and California markets from western Wyoming. The company said it is decreasing demand charges by 11.4% for 15-year expansion shippers and by 8.2% for 10-year expansion shippers. The proposed rate reductions reflect the lower interest rates in the final debt refinancing of the expansion, which went into service on May 1.

May 16, 2003