Protests

Over the objections of natural gas producers, marketers and East-of-California shippers, FERC on Wednesday accepted El Paso Natural Gas pipeline’s revised tariff proposal that would allow it to reserve capacity for future expansions.

Industrial gas customers and Illinois utilities have jumped to the defense of Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) in the wake of a FERC order, which they argue appears to restrict the ability of the Kinder Morgan pipeline to keep potentially dangerous high-Btu content natural gas from entering its system in production and market areas.

Industrial gas customers and Illinois utilities have jumped to the defense of Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL) in the wake of a FERC order, which they argue appears to have restricted the ability of the Kinder Morgan pipeline to keep potentially dangerous high-Btu content natural gas from entering its system in production and market areas.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM) postponed a conference committee vote on the proposed energy bill, which tentatively had been set for Oct. 3, until after the Senate returns from its recess in mid-October. This could push back Senate and House votes on the energy bill to November.

Prequalification credit-worthiness requirements for prospective replacement shippers in capacity release programs are “unworkable for many capacity release transactions, particularly short-term releases,” Reliant Energy Services said last week in rebutting a call by KeySpan Delivery Cos. for prequalification, including the posting of collateral by non-creditworthy shippers.

Prequalification credit-worthiness requirements for prospective replacement shippers in capacity release programs are “unworkable for many capacity release transactions, particularly short-term releases,” Reliant Energy Services said in rebutting a call by KeySpan Delivery Cos. for prequalification, including the posting of collateral by non-creditworthy shippers.

After years of bickering, protests and heated controversy, Guardian Pipeline has been completed and is scheduled to begin delivering natural gas supplies to northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin markets before mid-December, says a spokesman for CMS Energy, a partner in the pipeline. But there is one glitch.

After years of bickering, protests and heated controversy, Guardian Pipeline has been completed and is scheduled to begin delivering natural gas supplies to northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin markets before mid-December, says a spokesman for CMS Energy, a partner in the pipeline. But there is one glitch.

Over protests by several environmental groups, BNP Petroleum Corp. has received permission to drill two new natural gas wells in the ecologically sensitive Padre Island National Seashore of Texas.