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FERC on Friday gave Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC (TGP) the go-ahead on rehearing to construct and place into service by Nov. 1 its Northeast Upgrade Project, an expansion of the pipeline’s 300 Line that is intended to move more Marcellus Shale gas to Northeast markets.

So far, it looks like another mild winter is underway, but that is likely to change in a couple of weeks. A sudden warming of the stratosphere — six to 30 miles above the ground — in the North Pole is going to push cold air southward, according to AccuWeather.com.

So far, it looks like another mild winter is underway, but that is likely to change in a couple of weeks. A sudden warming of the stratosphere — six to 30 miles above the ground — in the North Pole is going to push cold air southward, according to AccuWeather.com.

Encore Energy Inc., acting in its capacity as lease advisor to mineral rights owners in eastern Ohio’s portion of the Utica Shale, announced Wednesday that it was currently shopping multiple tracts of “add-on” acreage to operators in the play.

Gulfport Energy Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy 30,000 net acres in the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio for approximately $300 million, a transaction that would boost the company’s position in the play to about 137,000 gross acres (99,000 net).

About 4.5 miles of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) natural gas pipeline segments in Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties in northern California may not have undergone integrity assessments prior to Dec. 17, 2007, as required by federal law, PG&E said in a letter sent to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Oct. 19. PG&E said it recently discovered that it does not have documentation to show that the high-risk segments — defined as having a threat caused by corrosion, excavation-induced damage or material defects — were properly assessed for internal corrosion threat. “Accordingly, PG&E is treating these segments as requiring baseline assessments,” PG&E said in the letter. CPUC’s safety staff has alleged that PG&E committed significant violations of pipeline safety rules, which staff claims contributed to a gas transmission pipeline rupture and explosion two years ago in San Bruno, CA (see Daily GPI, Sept. 13, 2010). Last week, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell was appointed to serve as mediator in ongoing talks aimed at resolving a series of enforcement cases against PG&E stemming from the San Bruno blast (see Daily GPI, Oct. 17).

NuStar Logistics LP, an affiliate of NuStar Energy LP, is holding a binding open season for firm priority space to transport crude petroleum from the Niobrara Shale near Platteville and Watkins, CO, to Wichita Falls, TX.

Connecticut should build 900 miles of natural gas mains and use financial and regulatory changes to make gas available to as many as 300,000 homes and businesses, according to a draft 2012 Comprehensive Energy Strategy unveiled Friday by Gov. Dannel Malloy.

WBI Energy Transmission Inc. is seeking FERC authorization to expand the northern portion of its natural gas pipeline system to meet increased demand in western North Dakota.