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In formally tapping Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) for secretary of the Interior Department, President-elect Obama Wednesday gave him the tough assignment of cleaning up the troubled agency whose image has been scarred by scandal during the past year.

At a ceremony last Monday formally opening Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and interconnecting Creole Trail Pipeline in Louisiana, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman sharply criticized state officials who are opposing the development and construction of LNG facilities in other parts of the nation.

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX) has formally asked FERC for authorization to put in service the remaining 210-mile portion of REX-West that runs from an ANR Pipeline meter station in Brown County, KS, to Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line in Audrain County, MO.

Cheniere Energy Inc. formally opened its Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and interconnecting Creole Trail Pipeline at a ceremony Monday in Cameron Parish, LA. The facility is the first new LNG terminal built in the U.S. in more than a quarter of a century.

About 100 feet of paper was loaded onto a truck and carried to regulators last Monday as AES Corp. formally filed its application for the Sparrows Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which would be built at the site of a former steel mill on a peninsula that juts out into Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore, MD. But with virtually no local political support for the 1.5 Bcf/d project, the hardest work may still be yet to come for AES.

About 100 feet of paper was loaded onto a truck and carried to regulators Monday as AES Corp. formally filed its application for the Sparrows Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, which would be built at the site of a former steel mill on a peninsula that juts out into Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore, MD. But with virtually no local political support for the 1.5 Bcf/d project, the hardest work may still be yet to come for AES.

Australian-based producer Woodside Exploration Ltd. formally launched an unsolicited bid for Energy Partners Ltd. (EPL) on Thursday, offering $880 million for the New Orleans-based producer. Woodside offered $23 for each outstanding share of EPL, contingent on EPL not completing its pending $1.4 billion merger with Stone Energy Corp. (see Daily GPI, Aug. 29).

The defense team for Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay on Wednesday formally requested that Lay’s criminal record be erased. However, the government has indicated it plans to oppose the motion.

The defense team for Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay on Wednesday formally requested that Lay’s criminal record be erased. However, the government has indicated it plans to oppose the motion.