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The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service is seeking to update its regulations involving pipelines and pipeline rights-of-way (ROW) on the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The regulations were last revised in 1988.

The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service is seeking to update its regulations involving pipelines and pipeline rights-of-way (ROW) on the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The regulations were last revised in 1988.

San Diego, CA-based Sempra Energy was awarded approximately $172 million, including interest, to settle a 2002 dispute involving its 43% ownership of two Argentine natural gas holding companies, Sodigas Pampeana and Sodigas Sur, the company said Tuesday. The award comes from an autonomous third-party organization, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

A consultant and attorneys for bankrupt Enron did not withhold information during a 2001 FERC hearing involving refunds to Pacific Northwest power customers, the agency’s chief judge said. As a result, he recommended that the parties not be barred from appearing and practicing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Federal lawmakers should consider resolving right-of-way (ROW) disputes involving tribal lands through specific legislation rather than through “broader changes that would affect tribal sovereignty or self-determination generally,” the U.S. Energy and Interior departments said in a recent report to Congress.

Federal lawmakers should consider resolving right-of-way (ROW) disputes involving tribal lands through specific legislation rather than through “broader changes that would affect tribal sovereignty or self-determination generally,” the U.S. Energy and Interior departments said in a recent report to Congress.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals once again remanded to FERC the circuitous case involving the jurisdictional status of a very small pipeline run by the Jupiter Energy Corp., owned by Unocal, which carries Unocal’s gas from a platform in the Gulf of Mexico in Vermilion Block 39 off the Louisiana coast to connections with Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line and Tennessee Gas Transmission.

A federal grand jury in Denver last Tuesday indicted a Eunice, NM-based construction company and two of its executives for participating in a bid-rigging conspiracy involving natural gas pipeline construction projects in Colorado. The company is the second pipeline contractor to be indicted for bid rigging in less than a year.

A federal grand jury in Denver Tuesday indicted a Eunice, NM-based construction company and two of its executives for participating in a bid-rigging conspiracy involving natural gas pipeline construction projects in Colorado. The company is the second pipeline contractor to be indicted for bid rigging in less than a year.