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From among more than a half-dozen suitors, Sydney, Australia-based Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI) emerged last month as the new owner of South Dakota-based utility holding company NorthWestern Corp. in a $2.2 billion deal completed April 25 that will leave the American management and strategies in place. NorthWestern’s CEO told the financial community he expected the deal to close quickly early next year.

A dozen to 20 employees have left Calpine Merchant Services Co. in recent weeks, according to one former employee, and at least some of those people will surely wind up at Bear Energy LP, the new Houston-based energy trading group being launched by Bear Stearns, Calpine’s former partner in the now-defunct CalBear energy trading venture.

Mexico has been in talks with a half dozen companies about building and supplying a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at the port of Manzanillo, according to a Reuters News Service report. The country’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is expected to open tenders in the first half of next month.

Mexico has been in talks with a half dozen companies about building and supplying a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at the port of Manzanillo, according to a Reuters News Service report. The country’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is expected to open tenders in the first half of next month.

With one to two dozen new stations popping up annually in California, the opening of another compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station for vehicles in Bakersfield, CA, earlier this month was not viewed as anything extraordinary by the industry, even in a period of record high wholesale natural gas prices.

With one to two dozen new stations popping up annually in California, the opening of another compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station for vehicles in Bakersfield, CA, earlier this month was not viewed as anything extraordinary by the industry, even in a period of record high wholesale natural gas prices.

With one to two dozen new stations popping up annually in California, the opening of another compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station for vehicles in Bakersfield, CA, earlier this month was not viewed as anything extraordinary by the industry, even in a period of record high wholesale natural gas prices.

FERC Chairman Patrick Wood said last Monday that at least two of the dozen of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals proposed for New England and eastern Canada need to be built by the end of this decade to provide the region with sufficient supplies of gas for winter heating and power generation, according to published reports.

FERC Chairman Patrick Wood said Monday that at least two of the dozen of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals proposed for New England and eastern Canada need to be built by end of this decade to provide the region with sufficient supplies of gas for winter heating and power generation, according to published reports.