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Portland Natural Gas Transmission System will hold an openseason from Oct. 1 to Oct. 22 on its PNGTS Pipeline to elicitinterest regarding new transportation services such as access to aninterconnect with Algonquin’s HubLine project, and consequently, tothe lucrative Boston power generation market.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced lastweek it wants to hold a half-day public conference Sept. 29 toaddress the “steady flow” of Congressional inquiries into theIndependence and MarketLink pipeline projects. The conference willbe used to gather “supplemental information” on the market need forthe projects but the Commission said it does not intend to reopenthe record on them.

FERC announced yesterday it wants to hold a half-day publicconference Sept. 29 to address the “steady flow” of Congressionalinquiries into the Independence and MarketLink pipeline projects.The conference will be used to gather “supplemental information” onthe projects, but the Commission said it does not intend to reopenthe record on them.

FERC has been asked to place an immediate hold on Southern LNGInc.’s applications to reactivate and upgrade its mothballedliquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and send-out facility on ElbaIsland in Georgia, pending the outcome of a probe being requestedinto the company’s open-season procedures.

FERC has been asked to place an immediate hold on Southern LNGInc.’s applications to reactivate and upgrade its mothballedliquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and send-out facility on ElbaIsland in Georgia, pending the outcome of a probe into thecompany’s open-season procedures.

The joint request of Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) andAlgonquin Gas Transmission (AGT) for FERC to hold a conference toreview alternatives to the proposed Millennium Pipeline and otherprojects is an attempt to block new pipeline competition in theNortheast and should be rejected outright, Millennium said.

Oneok Inc. of Tulsa, OK, last week filed to hold Southern Union in contempt for violating an injunction preventing it from attempting to influence a shareholder vote on the merger of Oneok and Southwest Gas Corp.

Oneok Inc. of Tulsa, OK, filed to hold Southern Union incontempt for violating a federal preliminary injunction preventingit from attempting to influence a shareholder vote on the merger ofOneok and Southwest Gas Corp.

California energy regulators last week identified 10 items forpotential natural gas industry restructuring, most of which dealwith wholesale or large customer operations. State regulators alsoencouraged utilities and large customers to cease their bickeringand come up with a broad-based settlement on gas unbundling.