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As the U.S oil and gas industry continues to pick up the pieces from the record 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast of more overactive seasons to come is not reassuring.

FERC Chairman Joseph Kelliher last week said that energy attorneys would be well advised to quickly pick up and read a rule FERC moved to adopt this week. The rule requires that issues raised in pleadings and requests for rehearing be set forth in a separate section entitled “Statement of Issues” listing each issue presented in a separate paragraph and referencing representative precedent on which a filer is relying.

FERC Chairman Joseph Kelliher on Thursday said that energy attorneys would be well advised to quickly pick up and read a rule FERC moved to adopt this week. The rule requires that issues raised in pleadings and requests for rehearing be set forth in a separate section entitled “Statement of Issues” listing each issue presented in a separate paragraph and referencing representative precedent on which a filer is relying.

A total of 426,000 NYSEG and Rochester Gas & Electric (RG&E) electricity customers made an electricity supply choice during an October-through-December enrollment period, the two Energy East Corp. subsidiaries said last Monday, with the bulk of the customers picking power supply plans sponsored by NYSEG and RG&E.

Kern River Gas Transmission plans to carry out another expansion of its system to California, providing an outlet for more Rocky Mountain natural gas, if California regulators next month authorize state utilities to turn back capacity on the El Paso Natural Gas and Transwestern pipeline systems in order to provide supply diversity for California consumers, said an official for the pipeline last Wednesday.

Kern River Gas Transmission plans to carry out another expansion of its system to California, providing an outlet for more Rocky Mountain natural gas, if California regulators next month order state utilities to turn back capacity on the El Paso Natural Gas and Transwestern pipeline systems in order to provide supply diversity for California consumers, said an official for the pipeline Wednesday.

As the output from many of the natural gas producing basins in the United States declines and energy players focus overseas, the industry remains short on answers as to how North America will continue to feed its voracious appetite for gas.

As the output from many of the natural gas producing basins in the United States declines and energy players focus overseas, the industry remains short on answers as to how North America will continue to feed its voracious appetite for gas.

In response to investors’ questions regarding when natural gas drilling activity would pick up, Raymond James & Associates analyst J. Marshall Adkins said it already has, and will continue through the remainder of 2003 and into 2004.