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Florida Gas Transmission has canceled an Overage Alert Day for market-area customers.

ExxonMobil Corp. regained the top spot in a ranking of the 50 largest listed energy companies in 2010, lifted by its buyout of XTO Energy Inc. and a 7% gain in share price growth, according to the PFC Energy 50 annual ranking.

High oil prices have lifted producer interest in liquids-rich natural gas plays; they’ve also pulled up the economic attractiveness of converting gas to liquid fuels and other products.

High oil prices have lifted producer interest in liquids-rich natural gas plays; they’ve also pulled up the economic attractiveness of converting gas to liquid fuels and other products.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has lifted suspensions on 45 oil and natural gas leases in Montana that were caught up in the controversy over the impact of drilling on climate change (see Daily GPI, April 13).

Rockies Express lifted Tuesday the force majeure it had issued Monday in association with a unit outage at Turney Compressor Station. No service was affected, the pipeline said.

ANR reported completing repairs at the Eunice Compressor Station in southeast Louisiana and has lifted all associated capacity restrictions.

In a positive turn less than two weeks after federal officials lifted the offshore drilling moratorium, Chevron Corp. on Thursday sanctioned the long-awaited Jack/St. Malo project, a promising project that it would operate in the Lower Tertiary trend in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

The Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has been lifted, but only for those operators that can show that they have complied with existing and the tougher new safety and drilling regulations. The action immediately came under attack from producers and Capitol Hill lawmakers, who question whether it will significantly change the status quo in the Gulf.