With 156 co-sponsors signed on to his legislation, Rep. John Peterson (R-PA) believes “there’s a real opportunity” this year for Congress to make headway to expand natural gas drilling on the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), a spokesman said.
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Congress Gets High Marks on Gas Infrastructure Issues in 2005, But Fails on Supply
When the natural gas industry looks back at 2005, it will show that Congress made significant headway on pipeline, storage and liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure issues, but it made little, if any, progress in the area of expanding gas supply, industry officials say.
GOP Negotiators Make Headway on Key Energy Bill Items
The staffs of House and Senate Republican negotiators were expected to work throughout Friday night to “hammer out the details” of the remaining sticking points to a broad energy bill in time for a final conference committee session possibly as early as Monday.
GOP Negotiators Make Headway on Key Energy Bill Items
The staffs of House and Senate Republican negotiators were expected to work throughout Friday night to “hammer out the details” of the remaining sticking points to a broad energy bill in time for a final conference committee session possibly as early as Monday.
INGAA Backs FERC Staff on ‘Energy Affiliates,’ but Wants More
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff has made headway in narrowing the list of “energy affiliates” that would be subject to the broader standards of conduct that are being considered for natural gas pipeline and electric transmission providers and their sister companies, said an official with a major pipeline group. But she believes the list of potentially affected affiliates still is far too expansive.
OPS Makes Headway on Pipe Safety Oversight, but Still Has Way to Go
The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) has taken a number of “steps in the right direction” to improve its oversight of the safety of natural gas and hazardous liquids pipelines, but it still has a long way to go, a General Accounting Office (GAO) official told Congress last week.
Breathitt ‘Uneasy’ About FERC Approach to Pipe Certification
Although FERC and California regulators have made a lot of headway in past months in their effort to relieve the imbalance between in-state and interstate pipeline capacity, Commissioner Linda Breathitt said last Wednesday that she still was somewhat unsettled by FERC’s tendency to routinely approve interstate pipe projects without giving full weight to the impact on existing shippers.
Breathitt ‘Uneasy’ About Approach to Pipe Certification
Although FERC and California regulators have made a lot of headway in past months in their effort to relieve the imbalance between in-state and interstate pipeline capacity, Commissioner Linda Breathitt said Wednesday that she still is somewhat unsettled by FERC’s tendency to routinely approve interstate pipe projects without giving full weight to the impact on existing shippers.
TriState Jurisdictional Woes Elude Cure
No major headway was made in resolving the jurisdictionalchallenges associated with the proposed TriState Pipeline projectduring a FERC technical conference on Tuesday, according to a majorsponsor of the project.