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The aid from energy companies came in all shapes and forms: from the millions of dollars donated by major oil companies to office space, oil-filled tanker trucks, respirators, boots, gloves, flashlights and cell phones, in response to the national emergency created by the massive terrorist attacks on the United States last Tuesday.

The aid from energy companies came in all shapes and forms: from the millions of dollars donated by major oil companies to office space, oil-filled tanker trucks, respirators, boots, gloves, flashlights and cell phones, in response to the national emergency created by the massive terrorist attacks on the United States last Tuesday.

A simultaneous blend of production capacity and capital dollars, tossed together with significant growth in electric generation, created the perfect “aligning of the planets” to finally make a serious go at building a subsea natural gas pipeline from Nova Scotia to the northeast United States, with a possible end point of New York City, said one of the executives involved in the planning.

A simultaneous blend of production capacity and capital dollars, tossed together with significant growth in electric generation, created the perfect “aligning of the planets” to finally make a serious go at building a subsea natural gas pipeline from Nova Scotia to the northeast United States, with a possible end point of New York City, said one of the executives involved in the planning.

For the second time this summer, Canadian natural gas producershave voted with their pocketbooks to revive northern drilling andexpectations that an Arctic pipeline will be built.

For the second time this summer, Canadian natural gas producershave voted with their pocketbooks to revive northern drilling andexpectations that an Arctic pipeline will be built.

Dynegy Inc. has signaled its commitment to addtelecommunications to its natural gas and power interests with aninvestment of more than half a billion dollars, including the $152million purchase of a Colorado-based communications solutions andnetwork company.

Although it’ll be poorer by a couple of million dollars, KinderMorgan Inc. says it’s glad to have finally reached a settlementwith FERC resolving many of the marketing-affiliate issues thathave dogged its pipeline companies for years.

Natural gas wellhead prices are projected to increase at anaverage rate of 1.7% a year through 2020, from $1.96 per Mcf in1998 to $2.81 (1998 dollars) in 2020 as demand rises to 31.5Tcf/year, according to the U.S. Energy Department’s EnergyInformation Administration.