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The economic slowdown, falling prices and overwhelming onshore production aren’t enough to deter more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from arriving on North American shores beginning this year, an energy consultant said Thursday.

North American natural gas production growth over the past five years has been “virtually nil,” but flat output won’t deter investment in U.S. and Canadian assets, energy executives said Tuesday.

Temporary business interruptions, project delays and damage from weather-related events failed to deter U.S. energy master limited partnerships from having a strong year, according to a report issued Thursday by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).

ANR Pipeline should not be allowed to significantly raise the pressure of its system at a Wisconsin interconnect with Northern Natural Gas when its West Leg looping and replacement project goes into service on Nov. 1, because it would prevent the lower-pressure Northern Natural system from delivering gas into ANR’s system, Northern Natural protested.

ANR Pipeline should not be allowed to significantly raise the pressure of its system at a Wisconsin interconnect with Northern Natural Gas when its West Leg looping and replacement project goes into service on Nov. 1, because it would prevent the lower-pressure Northern Natural system from delivering gas into ANR’s system, Northern Natural protested.

The Texas Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is asking state lawmakers to allow it to beef up the financial penalties it can impose for violations of state law or its own rules as they relates to errant behavior in the state’s power markets. The current $5,000 penalty may not be enough of a deterrent to prevent power companies from trying to exercise market power or game those markets, the PUC said.

As several parent companies of the top natural gas pipelines face severe credit and liquidity problems, this could put a major crimp in future plans to bolster the nation’s energy infrastructure, both for gas and electricity, FERC Chairman Pat Wood told Congress Wednesday during a hearing examining energy infrastructure issues.

As several parent companies of the top natural gas pipelines face severe credit and liquidity problems, this could put a major crimp in future plans to bolster the nation’s energy infrastructure, both for gas and electricity, FERC Chairman Pat Wood told Congress Wednesday during a hearing examining energy infrastructure issues.

The New York Independent System Operator’s (NYISO) comprehensive mitigation plan for the New York Control Area (NYCA) is a milestone in the effort to design and implement competitive, fair power markets, Energy Security Analysis Inc. (ESAI) concludes in a recent client memo. But ESAI is concerned that the proposed mitigation regime for supply-deficient regions could act as a deterrent to much needed future generation and transmission investment in those areas.