Petitioned

Sixteen distributor customers of Tennessee Gas Pipeline and FPL Energy have petitioned FERC to set appropriate gas quality standards before approving the pipeline’s request to add a 500 MMcf/d connection to regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to its system. The group objected to the filing of the interconnection application under the Commission’s fast-track prior notice procedures (CP08-400).

Duke Energy Corp. has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to relieve it of reporting obligations placed on the company when the FTC approved two of its acquisitions in 2000.

Duke Energy Corp. has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to relieve it of reporting obligations placed on the company when the FTC approved two of its acquisitions in 2000.

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) has petitioned FERC to grant a partial waiver of the secondary point rights in its tariff to help offset the impact on pipeline shippers of planned capacity reductions that will occur on a segment of its Gulf Coast Line due to maintenance, testing and other activities during the first half of 2006.

New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey last week petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to settle a boundary dispute with the state of Delaware involving the construction of an off-loading pier that would serve a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal along the Delaware River in Logan Township, NJ.

Major natural gas producers have petitioned FERC to issue a rule adopting national hydrocarbon dew point (HDP) and interchangeability specifications for natural gas being delivered throughout the national pipeline system, as well as for non-discriminatory application of the specifications in the tariffs of all interstate gas pipelines.

Elizabethtown Gas, a unit of AGL Resources Inc., last week petitioned New Jersey regulators to establish a Pipeline Replacement Program (PRP) Recovery Rider allowing it to collect costs from customers for the accelerated replacement of about 88 miles of elevated pressure 8- to 12-inch cast iron main on its distribution system.

Elizabethtown Gas, a unit of AGL Resources Inc., on Tuesday petitioned New Jersey regulators to establish a Pipeline Replacement Program (PRP) Recovery Rider allowing it to collect costs from customers for the accelerated replacement of about 88 miles of elevated pressure 8- to 12-inch cast iron main on its distribution system.

Municipals on the losing end of a price spike sparked by an erroneous storage report petitioned FERC commissioners Friday to act immediately to require daily storage reports. Joining industrial and chemical customers who issued their protests a day earlier, the American Public Gas Association (APGA) said consumers will pay almost a billion extra dollars for their natural gas in December due to the incorrect report, which was released just prior to Thanksgiving (see Daily GPI, Dec. 3).