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Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Inc., has filed an application seeking authorization to build pipeline facilities to export natural gas to serve the power generation market in northern Mexico.

Asian markets offer the best financial outlet for the abundant natural gas supplies in British Columbia (BC), the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) has concluded in a new report.

The backer of an initiative to raise the severance tax Arkansas charges natural gas producers has appealed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to scrutinize two energy producers for their indirect funding of anti-tax hike groups and what those groups are telling voters.

The backer of an initiative to raise the severance tax Arkansas charges natural gas producers has appealed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to scrutinize two energy producers for their indirect funding of anti-tax hike groups and what those groups are telling voters.

CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Co. (CEGT), an indirect unit of Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Inc., notified FERC Monday that it began emergency right-of-way (ROW) remediation activities to stabilize an area of a landslide on its system in an effort to avoid disruption of service to customers.

The natural gas industry in Pennsylvania could need to fill nearly 31,000 jobs to keep up with growing shale development in the state over the next three years, according to a recent report.

Building up its Louisiana natural gas storage assets, Cardinal Gas Storage Partners LLC has acquired two storage development projects from CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Co. (CEGT) an indirect, wholly owned interstate natural gas pipeline subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy Inc., for an undisclosed price.

El Paso Corp. has completed the acquisition of Peoples Energy Production Co. through indirect subsidiary El Paso E&P Co. LP, it said Friday. The total purchase price was $879.1 million in cash, which reflected customary closing adjustments.

CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Co. (CEGT), an indirect subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy Inc., has contracted to construct compression and pipeline facilities to serve a new power plant with up to 480 MW of capacity being built by Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), a subsidiary of American Electric Power, in Washington County, AR. The CEGT facilities will be constructed in eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. SWEPCO is constructing two simple-cycle natural gas-fired combustion turbines, with a combined capacity of 170 MW and scheduled for completion in July. Another two combustion turbines, with a combined capacity of 170 MW, are scheduled for completion in December. The facilities required to meet the demand will be built in two phases. Phase I, expected to be in service in the third quarter, will consist of 2,300 feet of 12-inch diameter pipe and a delivery meter station at the power plant. Phase II activities include the addition of a 15,000-hp mainline compressor station near Poteau, OK, along with 15.5 miles of 24-inch diameter pipeline looping of CEGT’s Line OM-1. CEGT expects to file an application for Phase II with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and anticipates an in-service date in the second quarter of 2009. Terms of the contracts are confidential.