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Swap derivative officials urged federal regulators last Wednesday not to jeopardize liquidity when taking actions to make the $600 billion-plus derivatives markets more transparent .

Reported growing opposition by House Democrats to controversial climate change legislation isn’t likely to jeopardize passage by the full House later this month, a spokesman for ConocoPhillips said Thursday.

Proposed tariff changes that could jeopardize the future existence of the controversial full-requirements (FR) contracts on El Paso Natural Gas came under attack last week from the pipeline’s East-of-California (EOC) customers.

Proposed tariff changes that could jeopardize the future existence of the controversial full-requirements (FR) contracts on El Paso Natural Gas have come under attack from the pipeline’s East-of-California (EOC) customers.

FERC staff warned Independence Pipeline Co. and ANR Pipeline last week that their certificate authority to build the much-maligned Independence project and associated SupplyLink expansion “could be in jeopardy” if they don’t submit by May 1, 2001 the initial plans for how they intend to comply with Commission-imposed environmental requirements.

Events over the past year at the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission have cast a dark cloud over the fate of the $650 millionMillennium Pipeline project, but that cloud got a lot darker lastweek. NiSource’s announcement that it is buying Columbia EnergyGroup, Millennium’s lead sponsor, for $6 billion with $2.5 billionin debt assumption, may have all but killed the pipeline project.

Events over the past year at the Federal Energy RegulatoryCommission have cast a dark cloud over the fate of the $650 millionMillennium Pipeline project, but that cloud got a lot darker lastweek. NiSource’s announcement that it is buying Columbia EnergyGroup, Millennium’s lead sponsor, for $6 billion with $2.5 billionin debt assumption, may have all but killed the pipeline project.

Oneok Inc. CEO Larry Brummett and Oklahoma CorporationCommission (OCC) Chairman Bob Anthony sparred last week overwhether a 1993 gas purchase contract of Oneok subsidiary OklahomaNatural Gas (ONG) has been found to be fair to ratepayers. Asthings stood Friday, Anthony was all but calling for aninvestigation of the contract.

Implementation of a mandatory capacity auction, as proposed byFERC in its mega-notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR), couldjeopardize the opportunity for natural gas to gain a greater shareof the prized electricity market in the future.