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Seeking to cut down on a thicket of legal challenges and negative publicity, Oregon regulators moved quickly Monday to start the formal public review of tax filing reports from the four major investor-owned energy utilities it regulates. The filings appear to be a mixed bag of under- and over-collections.

With the sage grouse population apparently declining as quickly as coalbed methane (CBM) development expands in the Powder River Basin, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Wyoming is attempting a friendly chicken dance with the region’s oil and natural gas operators, indicating that applications for permits to drill outside the delicate habitat will be given priority.

With the sage grouse population apparently declining as quickly as coalbed methane (CBM) development expands in the Powder River Basin, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Wyoming is attempting a friendly chicken dance with the region’s oil and natural gas operators, indicating that applications for permits to drill outside the delicate habitat will be given priority.

El Paso Natural Gas and a large number of shippers on its pipeline have called on FERC again to quickly approve an offer of settlement that has been pending at the agency for several months.

El Paso Natural Gas and a large number of shippers on its pipeline have called on FERC again to quickly approve an offer of settlement that has been pending at the agency for several months.

FERC last Thursday rejected as “premature” a request to revise a final rule requiring regulated companies to quickly report damage caused by a “natural disaster or terrorist activity” that curtails natural gas pipeline throughput or storage deliverability.

FERC Thursday rejected as “premature” a request to revise a final rule requiring regulated companies to quickly report damage caused by a “natural disaster or terrorist activity” that curtails natural gas pipeline throughput or storage deliverability.

The upward enthusiasm of Tuesday quickly dissipated Wednesday as traders reverted to tried and true seasonal spread trading. April futures fell 10.6 cents to $7.366 and May eased 9.7 cents to $7.491 as funds and managed accounts bought May contracts and at the same time sold April and also bought January and sold October.

A Kentucky producer has called on FERC to quickly approve Equitrans LP’s proposed pipeline to ease the capacity constraint in the eastern part of the state that has led to natural gas production being shut in over the past two years.