Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA), co-chair of the emergency task force on natural gas issues with Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-LA), last week asked the Government Accounting Office to conduct an inventory and report on all administration appeals and judicial litigation that are delaying critical energy exploration and production projects in the United States.
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FERC Staff to Release ‘Options Paper’ on Price-Index Fixes
FERC staff is expected to release a paper on Friday that will lay out various options for the Commission to consider as it tries to improve the system for collecting and compiling index prices for natural gas.
EIA Decides Against Unscheduled Storage Revisions, Fixes Estimation Procedure
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has decided to continue to refrain from making revisions to its storage data based on its estimation procedure, but it will make revisions at regularly scheduled times if survey respondents report changes that total more than 7 Bcf, the agency said in a Federal Register notice last Tuesday.
EIA Decides Against Unscheduled Storage Revisions, Fixes Estimation Procedure
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has decided to continue to refrain from making revisions to its storage data based on its estimation procedure, but it will make revisions at regularly scheduled times if survey respondents report changes that total more than 7 Bcf, the agency said in a Federal Register notice Tuesday.
FERC Audit of Cal-ISO Concludes Lack of Independence Is Key
Without real independence that is not possible with a single-state ISO, none of the recommended fixes will work for California’s beleaguered nonprofit electric transmission grid operator, Cal-ISO, according to a third-party audit ordered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released on Friday.
Mexico Fixes Gas Prices To Assist Industry
In a move that appeared to appease the country’s ailingindustrial sector, the Mexican government agreed last week to sellnatural gas to domestic industry at a fixed price of $4/MMBtu forthe next three years. Steelmaker Hylsamex, among others, which hadtemporarily shut down facilities and laid off workers because ofhigh natural gas prices, said it would soon restart one of fouriron plants.
Mexico’s Pemex Fixes Natural Gas Prices
In a move expected to appease the country’s ailing industrialsector, the Mexican government has agreed to sell natural gas todomestic industry at a fixed price of $4/MMBtu for the next threeyears. Some of the largest companies in Mexico, includingsteelmaker Hylsamex, have been forced to temporarily shut downfacilities and lay off workers because of natural gas prices.
Federal Hearings Attract Ideas for California Power Market Fixes
Separate Congressional and regulatory hearings in San Diego lastweek turned up a wide array of potential prescriptions for curingwhat ails California’s still-convalescing wholesale power market,but it also exposed the continuing federal-state head-butting.State officials mostly want to first satisfy the consumer-relatedproblems, returning to regulated rates if necessary, while FederalEnergy Regulatory Commission members don’t want to abandon theiralmost decade-long push for market-based energy industries.
Hoecker: Power Market Fixes Up to CPUC
Although FERC is pulling out the stops to address this summer’s upheaval in California’s bulk power market, Chairman James J. Hoecker made clear last week that most of the responsibility for correcting the dysfunctional electric market lies with the California legislators and regulators who created it.
Hoecker: Power Market Fixes Up to CPUC, Governor
Although FERC is pulling out the stops to address problems inthe bulk power market, with an emphasis on California, ChairmanJames J. Hoecker yesterday made clear most of the responsibilityfor correcting the dysfunctional power market lies with theCalifornia legislators and regulators who created it.