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With only a few exceptions all points rose Thursday with eastern points registering the strongest gains and weakness limited to a few points in the West.

Following an unusually warm winter that limited natural gas consumption and helped drive prices down and inventories to historic highs, spring and early summer are likely to bring a mixed weather bag, including mostly warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Northeast, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based Weather Services International (WSI).

A study of the electricity needs in the oil/natural gas patch was funded Monday by the North Dakota Industrial Commission for upcoming work to be overseen by the state’s power transmission authority. Separately, the commission also authorized paying for another study of future natural gas growth in the state.

Following an unusually warm winter that limited natural gas consumption and helped drive prices down and inventories to historic highs, spring and early summer are likely to bring a mixed weather bag, including mostly warmer-than-normal temperatures in the Northeast, according to forecasters at Andover, MA-based Weather Services International (WSI).

The Texas Supreme Court has for a second time reversed a court of appeals judgement in a case involving a pipeline company’s use of eminent domain for a public use project and has remanded the case to a district court “for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”

After three years of exponential growth, the Marcellus Shale is showing signs of plateauing this year.

EQT Midstream Partners LP, a unit of Appalachian producer EQT Corp., is preparing to launch a public offering as a master limited partnership (MLP). The initial public offering (IPO) is expected to raise up to $250 million.

Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG LLC has joined the ranks of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export proposals that have received authorization to send liquefied gas to the limited number of countries that are party to a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States.

Tennessee will implement Imbalance Warnings in downstream market-area Zones 5 and 6 Saturday, saying it has limited operational flexibility to manage imbalances there over what is predicted to be a cold long holiday weekend. All delivery point operators in the zones will be required to keep actual daily takes out of the system equal to or less than scheduled quantities regardless of their cumulative imbalance position. Receipt point operators must keep actual daily receipts into the system equal to or greater than scheduled quantities regardless of their cumulative imbalance position.