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The heat of July and Cinergy’s sweaty response to it mean EastCentral Area Reliability Coordination Agreement (ECAR) rules areabout to change to strongly discourage the unauthorized drawing ofpower from the system.

The heat of July and Cinergy’s sweaty response to it mean EastCentral Area Reliability Coordination Agreement (ECAR) rules areabout to change to strongly discourage the unauthorized drawing ofpower from the system.

While U.S. natural gas resources appear virtually unlimited,that doesn’t necessarily mean the industry can ramp up productionto meet the oft-heralded 30 Tcf a year market projected to developover the next 15 to 20 years, according to a Chevron U.S.A.exploration manager.

While U.S. natural gas resources appear virtually unlimited,that doesn’t necessarily mean industry can ramp up production tomeet the oft-heralded 30 Tcf a year market projected to developover the next 15 to 20 years, according to a Chevron U.S.A.exploration manager.

Strong domestic gas prices and an abundance of liquefied naturalgas on the spot market mean more LNG will be flowing to the UnitedStates. In the second LNG purchase announced this week, CMSMarketing, Services and Trading, bought seven additional cargoesfrom Qatar Liquefied Gas (Qatargas).

Distributed generation and mandates of the Kyoto protocol couldmean great things for gas demand and are reason enough to make theindustry super bullish, according to the Edison ElectricInstitute’s (EEI) Charles Linderman, director of fossil fuels,renewable energy and rail policy.

Just because your competitors are breaking the rules, doesn’tmean that you should be allowed to do so, FERC essentially told twoEnron affiliates last week when it denied their plea for a limitedwaiver of its capacity-release rule and the “shipper must havetitle” policy. The affiliates contend they sought the waiver sothey could compete with other suppliers that allegedly are ignoringthe title rule in order to evade paying certain taxes in New YorkState.

Canadian natural-gas producers have opened up their wallets toshow they mean to make the Sable Offshore Energy Project (SOEP)live up to its billing as a “seed” development that will sprout agrowing new branch of the industry on the East Coast.