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Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Operating Inc. and Little Rock, AR-based Clarita Operating LLC agreed Friday to halt drilling waste injection activities at two disposal wells while a potential link between injection activities and earthquakes in the Fayetteville Shale region is examined.

A moratorium on Marcellus Shale permits could be back on the table in Maryland.

Reflecting conditions of depressed demand and surplus supplies in the Pacific Northwest, Williams’ Northwest Pipeline Co. has decided to halt plans for a 172-mile extension of 36- and 30-inch diameter pipelines that was set to provide another 500 MMcf/d of capacity into the region’s Interstate 5 corridor.

Reflecting conditions of depressed demand and surplus supplies in the Pacific Northwest, Williams’ Northwest Pipeline Co. has decided to halt plans for a 172-mile extension of 36- and 30-inch diameter pipelines that was set to provide another 500 MMcf/d of capacity into the region’s Interstate 5 corridor.

Regency Energy Partners LP plans to construct an approximately $44 million pipeline extension of its Nexus Gathering System in North Louisiana. Called the Logansport Expansion, the project will add about 300 MMcf/d of gathering capacity to the system.

FERC granted Mississippi Hub LLC (MS Hub) a multi-year extension of the deadline to complete and place into service its proposed salt dome natural gas storage facility near Jackson County, MS. “MS Hub states that while project construction is proceeding with due diligence, MS Hub will not be able to make the project facilities available for service by the Feb. 15, 2009 deadline due to construction delays and market changes,” the Lafayette, LA-based storage developer told FERC. “Currently MS Hub expects to complete construction of its first storage cavern during the first half of 2011. By early 2012, MS Hub expects that all remaining project facilities will be completed.” FERC has given the company until Feb. 15, 2012 to complete the facilities and place them in operation. The two-cavern facility is under construction at the Bond Salt Dome in southeastern Mississippi. FERC certificated each cavern to have a working capacity of 6 Bcf, but Mississippi Hub plans to expand the capacity of each cavern to 7.5 Bcf, said Russell Murrell, vice president of marketing.

FERC Wednesday granted Mississippi Hub LLC (MS Hub) a multi-year extension of the deadline to complete and place into service its proposed salt dome natural gas storage facility near Jackson County, MS.

FERC on Monday granted Guardian Pipeline LLC’s request to commence service on the Guardian Expansion and Extension Project (G-II) in eastern Wisconsin.

A CenterPoint Energy Inc. interstate natural gas pipeline subsidiary has agreed to a five-year extension of its firm transportation and storage contracts with Laclede Gas Co., its largest customer. Financial details were not disclosed. The contracts with Mississippi River Transmission Corp. provide Laclede with nearly 665,000 Dth/d of transportation capacity and 23.5 Bcf of storage to serve the St. Louis market. Laclede is the largest gas distribution utility in Missouri, serving more than 630,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in St. Louis and surrounding counties of eastern Missouri.