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TransCanada PipeLines owns the right to build the Canadian half of the Alaska project and has deliveries of about 3 Bcf to the United States to prove it, according to company president Hal Kvisle.

As the battle rages on over shutting in natural gas wells for the purpose of preserving crude bitumen recovery from the Wabiskaw-McMurray formation located in northern Alberta, province regulators revised downward the number of gas wells they believe should be closed.

The “most significant” and what likely will prove to be the “most expensive” rule mandating periodic inspections of interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines is due to be published in the Federal Register today (Dec. 15) and will take effect 30 days later.

The “most significant” and what likely will prove to be the “most expensive” rule mandating periodic inspections of interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines will be posted to the web site of the Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) Friday and published in the Federal Register on Monday (Dec. 15), according to OPS and pipeline company officials.

Last week may prove memorable for what it wasn’t, as much as for what it was, when it came to energy companies and the New York Stock Exchange. It was a miserable week, all in all, with the only bright edges seen on Friday, when the shares of most of the merchants and utilities saw a little daylight. Wary investors may have hedged their bets a little, because energy stocks were lower overall than they’ve been in years.

Last week may prove memorable for what it wasn’t, as much as for what it was, when it came to energy companies and the New York Stock Exchange. It was a miserable week, all in all, with the only bright edges seen on Friday, when the shares of most of the merchants and utilities saw a little daylight. Wary investors may have hedged their bets a little, because energy stocks were lower overall than they’ve been in years.

Coalbed methane is booming and the Powder River Basin has the pipeline projects to prove it. Plans for two new gathering lines were revealed last week, one for a Wyoming intrastate which will have some service in place by the end of the year, and an interstate proposed by Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co. to travel 245 miles through Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota. In the meantime Northern Border Pipeline said it will be conducting an open season for its proposed Bison Pipeline. All three lines have a terminus in the vicinity of Gillette, WY.

Fending off accusations that it intentionally withheld power from the California market in March and April of this year, Mirant Corp. is challenging the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) to cough up evidence that would substantiate these charges.

Fending off accusations that it intentionally withheld power from the California market in March and April of this year, Mirant Corp. is challenging the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) to cough up evidence that would substantiate these charges.