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The House appointed 34 Republican and 18 Democratic conferees to the omnibus energy bill (HR 6), just hours before the first conference committee on the measure got under way on Thursday.

Kerr-McGee Corp. filed a lawsuit against financier and shareholder Carl Icahn and his associates on Thursday, hours after Icahn sent a letter to CEO Luke Corbett urging the company to end its exploratory deepwater drilling program because it was costing the shareholders money.

Kerr-McGee Corp. filed a lawsuit against financier and shareholder Carl Icahn and his associates on Thursday, hours after Icahn sent a letter to CEO Luke Corbett urging the company to end its exploratory deepwater drilling program because it was costing the shareholders money.

Samuel Bodman, who has served as U.S. Energy Secretary for just over a week, had his feet held to the fire in three hours of questioning Wednesday about the administration’s proposed energy budget by a not-entirely-friendly House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Samuel Bodman, who has served as U.S. Energy Secretary for just over a week, had his feet held to the fire in three hours of questioning Wednesday about the administration’s proposed energy budget by a not-entirely-friendly House Energy and Commerce Committee.

It lasted only a few hours, but the first power alert for the year from California’s electric transmission grid operator, CAISO, last Monday raised the pitch of discussion about the state’s summer power reserve adequacy, but most observers agreed the Stage One alert was not a harbinger of any undue problems.

It lasted only a few hours, but the first power alert for the year from the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) last Monday raised the pitch of discussion about the state’s summer power reserve adequacy. Most observers agreed the Stage One alert was not a harbinger of any undue problems.

Tennessee has scheduled about 12 hours of pigging activity March 8 on part of its Blue Water System offshore Louisiana. Specifically, Line #523M-100 will be pigged from Vermilion 245 to Ship Shoal 198. Only a Shell Oil meter (#012435) will be shut in during the work, but other meters in the area likely will experience higher than normal pressures, Tennessee said.

Within hours of a formal announcement last Friday by BHP Billiton about a proposed offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal 21 miles off the Southern California coast, residents and community activists in the nearest onshore population center at Oxnard, CA, were already protesting the proposal. Local environmentalists and elected officials defeated another LNG proposal from Occidental Petroleum Co. last year.