Overturn

A municipal gas distributor group has called on FERC to disregard the “extra-record fusillade” from interstate pipelines seeking to persuade the agency to overturn a controversial decision recommending a significantly lower return on equity (ROE) for Kern River Gas Transmission, a ruling that pipes fear could signal a trend.

A municipal gas distributor group has called on FERC to disregard the “extra-record fusillade” from interstate pipelines seeking to persuade the agency to overturn a controversial decision recommending a significantly lower return on equity (ROE) for Kern River Gas Transmission, a ruling that pipes fear could point to a trend.

FERC’s proposal to loosen the rules for granting market-based rates for new natural gas storage projects, with the goal of speeding an increase in storage capacity and thereby mitigating market peaks and valleys and consequently price volatility, has brought a storm of comments from interested parties on how the rules should be written.

The biggest disappointment of the newly-enacted energy bill is its failure to overturn the moratorium on oil and natural gas drilling in much of the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), an American Gas Association (AGA) official said Friday.

Looking to reverse the largest punitive damages award in Alabama’s history, ExxonMobil Corp. said it has asked the state’s supreme court to overturn the $3.5 billion award that resulted from a lawsuit regarding payment of Mobile Bay Project royalties to the state. The company asserts that the state “improperly turned a contract dispute into a fraud action.”

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has refused an appeal by the administration to overturn a lower court’s discovery order that requires Vice President Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force to turn over the names of companies that participated in drawing up the administration’s energy policy.

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has refused an appeal by the administration to overturn a lower court’s discovery order that requires Vice President Dick Cheney’s Energy Task Force to turn over the names of companies that participated in drawing up the administration’s energy policy.

Marathon Oil has filed an appeal in federal court in Wyoming seeking to overturn a ruling by the Interior Department’s Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) that found three Marathon-owned leases for coalbed methane (CBM) development in the Powder River Basin were illegally awarded by the federal government in early 2000.

El Paso Natural Gas has asked FERC to overturn a July ALJinitial decision that found it failed to “seriously confront thepotential impact of…turned-back capacity on the remainingcustomers on its system and take adequate steps to remarket thecapacity” when it first learned that Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) planned to step down its capacity commitment effective January1996. If upheld by the Commission, El Paso would be required toshoulder the costs for half of the 300 MMcf/d of capacity that theLDC turned back.