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Ultra Petroleum commenced in-fill drilling this week in theJonah Field, located in the Green River Basin of Wyoming. It gotthe go-ahead to start drilling on June 8 when the Bureau of LandManagement released an order for 22 new well locations, whichshould keep Ultra busy through 2001.

The D.C. appellate court has issued a final ruling upholding theEnvironmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 1998 clean-air rulerequiring several states east of the Mississippi River to enforcestrict nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emission standards.

The D.C. appellate court issued a final ruling last weekupholding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 1998clean-air rule requiring several states east of the MississippiRiver to enforce strict nitrogen-oxide (NOx) emission standards.

It’s been a month since Western Hub Properties LLC received a regulatory green light on its Lodi Gas Storage Project in Northern California, but the company already is preparing to launch two more storage fields and has several others on the way.

One month after getting the regulatory green light on its Lodigas storage project in Northern California, Western Hub PropertiesLLC said it is about to announce another high-deliverabilitystorage project in Bakersfield, CA, near Wheeler Ridge, and ismoving forward on a storage facility in Live Oak and KarnesCounties, TX, near San Antonio.

The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has given a greenlight to the July 1 transfer of 1,300 MW of Allegheny Energy Inc.’sPotomac Edison generating assets to its non-regulated energy supplyaffiliate. The transfer of the generating assets to AlleghenyEnergy Supply Co. LLC will give it more than 5,400 MW of low-costgenerating capacity to sell in the deregulated marketplace.

FERC has granted Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line’s request forrehearing of the capacity-release and penalty issues related to itsproposed hourly firm transportation (HFT) service for gas-firedpower generation facilities.

FERC last week granted Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line’s request forrehearing of the capacity-release and penalty issues related to itsproposed hourly firm transportation (HFT) service for gas-firedpower generation facilities.

ANR Pipeline has won a two-year battle at FERC to build a directinterconnect to Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s mainlinefacilities in Evangeline Parish, LA – near the site of an activenatural gas sales market.