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In keeping with its plan to merge with National Grid USA and focus on regulated energy transmission and distribution businesses, Niagara Mohawk Holdings Inc. on Tuesday sold its unregulated energy marketing and services subsidiary to Select Energy Inc., a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities. Terms of the sale of Niagara Mohawk Energy Marketing Inc., were not disclosed.

Florida Gas Transmission discontinued an Overage Alert Day notice Wednesday, saying total linepack and operating conditions had improved.

One man was still missing late Friday afternoon after a natural gas drilling rig, operating about 26 miles south of Freeport, TX, had what the companies involved called a “well control incident” in the pre-dawn hours. Global Marine Inc. and Marine Drilling Cos., which had 40 people on the rig, reported that 37 men and two women were evacuated from Marine Drilling’s “Marine 4” rig in two lifeboats following the blowout.. A supervisor was reportedly missing, and aggressive search operations were under way by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Operating on the premise that a little here and a little there adds up to a fully functioning delivery system, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved three expansion projects last Wednesday in the Southeast, Midwest and Northeast.

Operating on the premise that a little here and a little there adds up to a fully functioning delivery system, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved three expansion projects Wednesday in the Southeast, Midwest and Northeast.

As hoped for by coalbed methane producers operating in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana regulators have reached a tentative agreement to prevent CBM production from polluting the rivers in the region. Under the tentative proposal announced last week, CBM producers would be allowed to dump discharge water on the ground over an 18-to-24-month period to determine if it actually pollutes the rivers.

As hoped for by coalbed methane producers operating in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana regulators have reached a tentative agreement to prevent CBM production from polluting the rivers in the region. Under the proposal reached this week, CBM producers would be allowed to dump discharge water on the ground over an 18-to-24-month period to determine if it actually pollutes the rivers.

AGL Resources Inc. announced the appointment of Kristin M. Kamm to the position of CIO. Kamm will report to Susan A. McLaughlin, executive vice president and chief operating officer of AGL Resources. Kamm comes to AGL Resources from BellSouth, where she served as CIO, Consumer and Interconnect Services. “We are very pleased to have Kristin join our executive team,” said McLaughlin. “Her leadership in enhancing AGL’s technology platform will be instrumental to our business growth, and her experience in managing information systems, business/technology alignment and change management is a welcome addition.”

Saying linepack and operating conditions had improved, Florida Gas Transmission did not extend an Underage Alert Day notice beyond Tuesday.