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Referring to colder market-area temperatures and its need to maintain linepack, Tennessee is issuing an OFO Action Alert, effective Thursday, for all LMS-PA (including SA contracts acting as balancing parties), LMS-MA and LMS-PL Balancing Parties with meters located in Zones 1, L and 2. Affected parties are required to limit daily negative imbalances to 2% of scheduled quantities or 500 Dth, whichever is greater. Penalties will be 21.98 cents/Dth “for that portion of physical quantities related to underdeliveries by receipt point operators and overtakes by delivery point operators [that] exceed this tolerance,” the pipeline said.

Canadian producers have won an exceptionally hard-fought battle — which escalated into a human rights dispute — in a continuing war to maintain a prime drilling target, “sour” reserves laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.

Canadian producers have won an exceptionally hard-fought battle — which escalated into a human rights dispute — in a continuing war to maintain a prime drilling target, “sour” reserves laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.

Faced with a rising tide of license applications for new nuclear facilities, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must maintain its standards if it is to continue to meet its mission of protecting public health, safety and the environment, according to Commissioner Peter B. Lyons.

Utilities, transmission providers and wind generation developers last Thursday called on FERC to maintain a “sense of urgency” in carrying out reforms to the current process for interconnecting generators to the bulk power grid.

Most executives with privately held energy and natural resources companies would prefer their companies to remain private to better maintain financial control and flexibility, according to a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit and CIT Group Inc.

Transwestern said Thursday morning the most recent update on a fire that had been threatening Station 4 in Klagetoh, AZ (see Daily GPI, July 5) was favorable. The incident command post for directing firefighting operations had been moved off the road to Transwestern’s station to a location about 10 miles south of the station. The remaining issue in the Station 4 area was back fires that appeared to be almost contained, the pipeline said. The “incident commander has indicated that it is possible that by mid-afternoon the situation will be contained to the extent [Transwestern] can possibly resume service at the station,” a bulletin board posting said. Based on current information, the posting continued, Transwestern would be accepting full shipper Timely cycle nominations for Friday’s gas day and would raise Thoreau West system capacity from 1,040,000 MMBtu/d to 1,210,000 MMBtu/d.

Fort Worth-based XTO Energy Inc. executives said last week they expect to maintain double-digit production growth through the year after posting a 10% in 1Q2007 oil and natural gas output.

Natural gas prices need to be “at least” $9/MMBtu to maintain current North American supply available to the United States, an energy analyst suggested last week.