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Wyoming coalbed methane producers could soon be faced with limitations in the allowable volume of CBM water discharges. On May 30, Wyoming State Engineer Patrick Tyrrell met with the Wyoming Coalbed Methane Task Force in Casper to discuss water management strategies to deal with the tremendous volume of CBM water produced in the state.

Near-month gas futures tumbled 21.4 cents on St. Patrick’s Day in weak trading to end the week at $7.053, up about 33 cents from where the week started but with a clear indication that the recent rally has lost significant steam.

Laying out a list of what he says still needs to be done in order to bolster demand response (DR) in the U.S., FERC Chairman Patrick Wood said that in planning, DR “should be considered to be an equal resource” with generation and transmission.

Outgoing FERC Chairman Patrick Wood on Wednesday said that he feels “very comfortable that we will get the amount of gas we need in…North America,” an amount that a 2003 National Petroleum Council (NPC) report to the U.S. Secretary of Energy “said we’ve got to have” (see Daily GPI, Sept. 26, 2003).

The future looks “very bright” for organized U.S. power markets waiting in the wings, FERC Chairman Patrick Wood told an audience of energy marketers gathered in Washington, DC, last Wednesday.

FERC Chairman Patrick Wood, who announced Wednesday that he will be departing the agency at the end of June, told reporters this week that he’s not sure that current language in pending comprehensive energy legislation dealing with the siting of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities is “helpful.”

FERC Chairman Patrick Wood said last Monday that at least two of the dozen of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals proposed for New England and eastern Canada need to be built by the end of this decade to provide the region with sufficient supplies of gas for winter heating and power generation, according to published reports.

FERC Chairman Patrick Wood said Monday that at least two of the dozen of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals proposed for New England and eastern Canada need to be built by end of this decade to provide the region with sufficient supplies of gas for winter heating and power generation, according to published reports.

FERC Chairman Patrick Wood last week said that his agency soon will act on a pending request for rehearing filed in response to FERC’s decision this spring to assert exclusive jurisdiction over a Sound Energy Solutions (SES) liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Long Beach, CA.