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Attorneys general from 14 states, along with various state and city authorities, last Monday jointly urged the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to address global warming. California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown called for a reversal of what he called EPA’s “shameful inaction” by the federal agency.

Attorneys general from 14 states, along with various state and city authorities, Monday jointly urged the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to address global warming. California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown called for a reversal of what he called EPA’s “shameful inaction” by the federal agency.

Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. and MarkWest Energy Partners LP are jointly developing several natural gas gathering and processing projects in the Appalachian Basin to take advantage of the emerging Marcellus Shale gas play.

Plains Exploration & Production Co. (PXP) and a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) agreed to pay $162 million to an undisclosed third party to jointly acquire 11,500 net acres in the Piceance Basin. The leasehold is adjacent to PXP’s existing Piceance Basin natural gas assets (see Daily GPI, April 19, 2007). The agreement gives PXP and Oxy a 95% working interest in the acreage. Plains plans to operate the leasehold and estimated that it includes more than 800 future drilling locations and 75 million boe net potential of unproved reserves. The transaction is expected to close by the end of September.

Florida Gas Transmission ended an Overage Alert Day Wednesday after it had been in effect for one day.

Gill Ranch Storage LLC, which is being jointly developed by Northwest Natural Gas and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), announced last Monday it will hold an open season through Dec. 14 to test the market’s interest in a high-deliverability storage facility that it proposes to build in central California.

Gill Ranch Storage LLC, which is being jointly developed by Northwest Natural Gas and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E), announced Monday it will hold an open season through Dec. 14 to test the market’s interest in a high-deliverability storage facility that it proposes to build in central California.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and a newly formed unit of Portland, OR-based Northwest Natural Gas Co. jointly announced last Wednesday they are planning to develope a new 20 Bcf underground natural gas storage facility at Gill Ranch near Fresno in the northern end of California’s central San Joaquin Valley.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and a newly formed unit of Portland, OR-based Northwest Natural Gas Co. jointly announced Wednesday they will pursue the development a new 20 Bcf underground natural gas storage facility at Gill Ranch near Fresno in the northern end of California’s central San Joaquin Valley.