Ordering

A federal judge in Kansas on Wednesday issued an injunction ordering that some natural gas wells be shut in as they are alleged to be producing from a storage field owned by Northern Natural Gas Co.

Kerr-McGee attorneys say they are still “evaluating our options” as to whether to appeal last week’s court ruling ordering the producer, which is now part of Anadarko Petroleum, to pay $22.9 million for the alleged underreporting of oil and natural gas royalties.

Alberta regulators chose the province’s bitumen reserves over natural gas last week, ordering EnCana Corp. and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to shut in 121 gas wells south of Fort McMurray. The Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) concluded that future gas production from the Cold Lake Oil Sands Area Clearwater Formation “presents an unacceptable risk to a much larger bitumen resource” adjacent to the gas.

Canada’s federal government angered some environmental groups last week by ordering an environmental study rather than a review panel for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal proposed by Keltic Petrochemicals in northeastern Nova Scotia.

FERC last Monday approved a stipulation and consent agreement ordering CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission (CEGT), an interstate natural gas pipeline subsidiary of Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Inc., to pay a civil penalty of $270,000 and take other remedial steps for allegedly violating the agency’s standards governing the behavior between regulated companies and their affiliates.

FERC on Monday approved a stipulation and consent agreement ordering CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission (CEGT), an interstate natural gas pipeline subsidiary of Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Inc., to pay a civil penalty of $270,000 and take other remedial steps for allegedly violating the agency’s standards governing the behavior between regulated companies and their affiliates.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has affirmed FERC’s decision ordering the system-wide conversion of full-requirements (FR) service on the El Paso Natural Gas pipeline to cost-based contract demand (CD) service to remove long-standing capacity constraints in the Southwest.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has affirmed FERC’s decision ordering the system-wide conversion of full-requirements (FR) service on the El Paso Natural Gas pipeline to cost-based contract demand (CD) service to remove long-standing capacity constraints in the Southwest.

Brokers of natural gas futures are on both sides of the debate when it comes to talk of FERC ordering owners and operators of gas storage facilities to electronically post their storage inventory levels from the prior day. Historically the American Gas Association (AGA), and more recently the Energy Information Administration (EIA), has aggregated a sample of storage data for an entire week and reported it on the following Thursday.