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The attorney general for New Hampshire Tuesday released a report on petroleum markets that examines the gasoline and heating oil markets in his state and Massachusetts, Maine, New York and Vermont. The 330-page report also includes information on the difficulties and high costs of converting from a heating oil system to a natural gas system.

A study released last week that examines the potential of oil and gas production from the Arctic contains disappointing news for anyone who was counting on the region to become the next oil breadbasket for the United States.

As FERC examines the proposed acquisition of NorthWestern Corp. by Australian-based Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Ltd. (BBI), Montana and South Dakota state representatives last Monday intervened with different agendas. Montana wants assurances that its retail utility customers will not end up paying for the purchase premium. South Dakota is seeking a 30-day extension to provide time for settlement negotiations with the companies.

As FERC examines the proposed acquisition of NorthWestern Corp. by Australian-based Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Ltd. (BBI), Montana and South Dakota state representatives last Monday intervened with different agendas. Montana wants assurances that its retail utility customers will not end up paying for the purchase premium. North Dakota is seeking a 30-day extension to provide time for settlement negotiations with the companies.

Taking over where FERC left off, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) said last week that it is testing the waters for possibly putting a new regulatory framework in place to ensure non-discriminatory open access to offshore gas and oil pipeline systems.

Taking over where FERC left off, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) is testing the waters for possibly putting a new regulatory framework in place to ensure non-discriminatory open access to offshore gas and oil pipeline systems.

The fallout from last Monday’s explosion at Algeria’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex, which killed as many as 27 workers and injured up to 72 persons, has extended all the way to Washington, DC, causing federal energy regulators to question whether a blast of a similar magnitude could occur at LNG facilities in the United States.

The fallout from Monday’s explosion at Algeria’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex, which killed as many as 27 workers and injured up to 72 persons, has extended all the way to Washington, DC, causing federal energy regulators to question whether a blast of a similar magnitude could occur at LNG facilities in the United States.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) subpoenaed the phone records of New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) gas futures traders last week to look for any signs of market manipulation over the last few weeks, but so far the commission’s investigation hasn’t found anything, according to a spokeswoman for Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which was briefed last week by CFTC staff.