Dispute

Canadian producers have won an exceptionally hard-fought battle — which escalated into a human rights dispute — in a continuing war to maintain a prime drilling target, “sour” reserves laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.

FERC Wednesday directed staff to convene a technical conference to resolve a tariff dispute between Columbia Gas Transmission and several of its shippers, which claim that the pipeline’s proposed tariff changes would seriously impair their existing ability to schedule primary firm transportation. Staff was ordered to file a report on the results of the conference within 120 days.

FERC last Wednesday directed staff to convene a technical conference to resolve a tariff dispute between Columbia Gas Transmission and several of its shippers, which claim that the pipeline’s proposed tariff changes would seriously impair their existing ability to schedule primary firm transportation service. Staff was ordered to file a report on the results of the conference within 120 days.

An ongoing legal dispute will delay Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to drill for oil and natural gas in the Beaufort Sea offshore Alaska through the rest of the year, the oil major said Friday.

Wisconsin Public Service Corp. (WPSC) has called on FERC to settle a contract dispute that involves reducing service on ANR Pipeline in order to accommodate deliveries from a competing pipeline’s proposed expansion.

Wisconsin Public Service Corp. (WPSC) has called on FERC to settle a contract dispute that involves reducing service on ANR Pipeline in order to accommodate deliveries from a competing pipeline’s proposed expansion.

The dispute between FERC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) intensified when FERC decided to take its newfound authority under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) out for a “little jurisdictional test drive” in the case accusing failed hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC of manipulation of natural gas prices, said CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton earlier this week.

A federal court in western Louisiana last week ruled in favor of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in its dispute with the Interior Department over royalties on oil and natural gas production in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico in 2003 and 2004, a decision that was a blow to the federal government but may be a boon to other producers that are challenging the government’s efforts to collect more royalties.

A federal court in western Louisiana earlier this week ruled in favor of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in its dispute with the Interior Department over royalties on oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico in 2003 and 2004, a decision that is a blow to the federal government but may be a boon to other producers that are challenging the government’s efforts to collect more royalties.