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Sempra Energy CEO Donald Felsinger said the company will invest $10 billion over the next five years in its utilities and natural gas infrastructure businesses and is “fairly confident” the company can fund the program internally and by selling nonstrategic assets.

Sempra Energy CEO Donald Felsinger said Wednesday the company plans to invest $10 billion over the next five years in its utilities and natural gas infrastructure businesses and is “fairly confident” the company can fund the program internally and by selling nonstrategic assets.

Donald Burwell, an ex-El Paso Corp. natural gas trader, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Houston to violating a provision of the Commodity Exchange Act for his involvement in providing inaccurate trading information to industry publications. Burwell, whose trial was scheduled to begin March 6, agreed to cooperate with the government in similar cases.

Rhode Island Gov. Donald. Carcieri on Thursday signed an executive order creating Rhode Island’s first chief energy advisor to the governor, who will be in charge of coordinating state energy policy and overseeing the state energy office.

As announced a year ago and in anticipation of the current CEO’s retirement next month, Sempra Energy’s board of directors Wednesday officially elected Donald E. Felsinger, 58, as chairman and CEO of the San Diego-based utility holding company. The board also named two other top senior officers.

A group of independent producers on Monday took issue with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s claim that drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico would interfere with military testing and training activities in the region.

In the story, “Report Recommends States Encourage Use of Long-Term Gas Contracts,” which appears in Tuesday’s Daily GPI, Donald L. Mason, chairman of the Gas Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, should have been identified as a commissioner with the Ohio Public Utilities Commission.

Pipeline representative Donald Santa told FERC Thursday that pipeline shippers will have to prepare for the possibility that higher penalties may have to be used by pipeline companies to discourage customers from using gas that isn’t theirs this winter. He also said pipeline companies are going to have to work more closely with customers to find solutions to the problem of liquids in the gas stream because of the 16 processing plants that remain out of service.

Basking in a series of financial successes, Sempra Energy COO Donald Felsinger said his company cashed in on the big bet it made five years ago on natural gas strategy. Speaking Monday at Bank of America’s annual investment conference in San Francisco, Felsinger said Sempra correctly projected that North American production reached its peak and then it invested accordingly in liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, pipelines and storage.