Denies

California’s state regulators and proponents wanting to site a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Long Beach Harbor had what may be a concluding head-butt late last month when a final request for a rehearing by Sound Energy Solutions (SES) was denied, reiterating the California Public Utilities Commission’s order that SES file with the state authorities for permission to build its proposed 1 Bcf/d receiving facility.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC on Friday denied a petition for review of FERC orders approving East Tennessee Natural Gas Co.’s Patriot Pipeline in the Southeast.

FBI officials in Boston categorically denied Friday claims by former Bush administration counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke that the FBI failed to alert local authorities when it discovered in late 1999 that al Qaeda terrorists had been coming into Boston harbor aboard liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers from Algeria.

FBI officials in Boston categorically denied Friday claims by former Bush administration counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke that the FBI learned in late 1999 that al Qaeda terrorists were entering Boston harbor aboard liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers bound from Algeria.

London-based Royal Dutch/Shell Group denied a published report Monday that it is considering hiring the former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman to help it deal with the complexities associated with the agency’s ongoing inquiry into the company’s overbooking of oil and natural gas reserves.

A U.S. district court judge in Houston last week denied a motion by a former Enron Corp. trading executive that sought to dismiss charges by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that he manipulated or attempted to manipulate the wholesale natural gas market.

A U.S. district court judge in Houston this week denied a motion by a former Enron Corp. trading executive that sought to dismiss charges by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last year that he manipulated or attempted to manipulate the wholesale natural gas market.

FERC last Tuesday rejected a petition filed by Southern California Edison Co. this summer asking the Commission to declare that Edison has no obligation to act as a scheduling coordinator for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) under an existing exchange agreement between the utility and the LADWP.

FERC last Wednesday “split the baby” in a series of long-awaited rulings on the western energy crisis, giving both sides reason to cheer and scowl. The agency, on one hand, revoked the marketing authorizations for Enron Corp. subsidiaries and launched show-cause enforcement actions against nearly 60 energy companies for potential gaming of the California market, while at the same time it rejected efforts by California and other western utilities to overturn contracts worth an estimated $12 billion that were negotiated at the height of the market turmoil two years ago.