Fined

Colorado Interstate Gas Co. (CIG) has been fined $374,000 by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for a 2006 incident in which a cracked well casing in its 8.5 Bcf Fort Morgan, CO, storage field allowed natural gas to escape, causing the evacuation of some residents and threatening their water supply (see Daily GPI, Oct. 25, 2006).

Houston-based distributors TE Products Pipeline Co. LLC and TEPPCO Crude Pipeline LLC have been fined approximately $2.8 million for allegedly dumping fuel into waterways in the South, the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency said last Wednesday.

Houston-based distributors TE Products Pipeline Co. LLC and TEPPCO Crude Pipeline LLC have been fined approximately $2.8 million for allegedly dumping fuel into waterways in the South, the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday.

Staff members of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) have recommended that Washington State utility, Puget Sound Energy (PSE), be fined $2 million for failing to maintain accurate and complete records of suspected natural gas leaks.

State regulators in Washington last week fined electric and gas utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE) $995,000 for violating consumer privacy laws by intentionally sharing private customer information with an outside marketing partner without the customers’ written permission.

A Tulsa, OK-based pipeline construction firm has been fined $150,000 for rigging the bids they submitted to BP America Production Co. for the construction of natural gas pipelines in the Upper San Juan Basin in Colorado.

FERC last week ordered bankrupt Enron Corp. to pay penalties of $1,000 per day for failing to turn over evidence to a public utility in Washington State as part of an agency proceeding exploring the company’s exploitation of West Coast energy markets in 2000-2001.

The former director of investor relations for Enron Corp. on Wednesday agreed to pay a $1.49 million fine to settle fraud charges, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Mark Koenig settled with the SEC without admitting or denying the charges.

Shell Energy Services will pay about $84,000 for slamming retail gas customers in Georgia, according to a stipulation signed Tuesday by the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC). The agreement resolves charges that the company switched 18 gas customers without their authorization during a telemarketing campaign last year and misinformed 516 other customers.