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The emerging next generation of Alberta oilsands projects has provided an early example of how new technology will make oilsands a contributor to natural gas supplies rather than just a drain. About 22 Bcf/year of gas will eventually be put back on the market as a result of an agreement between fertilizer manufacturer Agrium Inc. and the 100,000 bbl/d Northern Lights oilsands project.

The emerging next generation of Alberta oilsands projects has provide an early example of how new technology will make oilsands a contributor to natural gas supplies rather than just a drain. About 22 Bcf/year of gas will eventually be put back on the market as a result of an agreement between fertilizer manufacturer Agrium Inc. and the 100,000 bbl/d Northern Lights oilsands project.

A “classic example” of the country’s “failure to plan is New England and, frankly, the whole Northeast. We just aren’t doing it right,” FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell said last Thursday in an appearance at the Platts Northeast Power Markets Forum in Arlington, VA.

In yet another example of the majors rebuilding gas holdings in North America, Shell Canada acquired a stake in 110,000 acres of land at the recent Crown land sales in Alberta and British Columbia.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, called on state regulators to follow the example of Oregon and structure utility rates in a way that would encourage energy efficiency and the conservation of natural gas as the winter heating season approaches.

Calling it an example of a “successful regulatory outcome,” Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services praised an omnibus settlement between Xcel Energy’s Public Service Company of Colorado utility and more than two dozen of its stakeholders. The deal was approved by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission last December.

Calling it an example of a “successful regulatory outcome,” Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services praised an omnibus settlement between Xcel Energy’s Public Service Company of Colorado utility and more than two dozen of its stakeholders. The deal was approved by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission last December.

With adequate liquidity now an increasing focus of credit analysis in the energy industry, Dominion Resources Inc. (BBB+/Stable/A-2) is a “good example” of a company with improving liquidity, according to Standard & Poor’s (S&P) in a new report released Friday.

The cash market threw some traders a curve Tuesday. Instead of following the example of Monday’s screen plunge as had been expected, flat to barely lower numbers dominated at most points. Most declines were 3 cents or less, and only a few points fell by more than a nickel. The only significant upticks of more than a dime came in the Rockies with Kern River-Opal, Northwest Domestic, Cheyenne Hub and CIG all showing gains of 10 to 20 cents.