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Other than a remote tropical wave that presumably could enter the Gulf of Mexico next week, there was little to explain price increases at all but one point Monday. Industrial load was returning from its usual weekend decline, but that hardly sufficed as a rationale for cash market gains despite flat futures on the previous Friday and only a modicum of cooling load outside the Pacific Northwest and the area from Texas through the desert Southwest and interior California.

A 36-inch diameter portion of the Oasis Pipeline System’s Waha-to-Katy line at a remote location in Central Texas, between San Antonio and Austin, ruptured and an explosion appears to have damaged a compressor station early Thursday morning.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has opened for comment a plan by a subsidiary of Devon Energy Corp. to conduct seismic testing on the Baxter Shale in a remote area of Wyoming — a controversial project that the state’s governor has tried to stop.

On the eve of the official start of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, with the remote possibility of the birth of Tropical Storm Barry in the background, prices were close to flat in most cases Thursday. The primary exceptions were larger losses of up to about half a dollar at some points in the Rockies and at Westcoast Station 2 in Western Canada.

From remote foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the outskirts of the Alberta capital of Edmonton, “unconventional” has become the watchword among Canadian producers mounting natural gas supply development programs.

From remote foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the outskirts of the Alberta capital of Edmonton, “unconventional” has become the watchword among Canadian producers mounting natural gas supply development programs.

Citing the remote location of Canada Southern Petroleum’s gas resources in the Canadian Arctic Islands, Petro-Canada said Tuesday that it is “disappointed” that Canada Southern’s board has urged shareholders to reject Petro-Canada’s US$113 million offer on grounds that it undervalues its potential Arctic reserves.

Dominion experienced a rupture Saturday on a 20-inch supply line to one of its storage facilities in Harrison County, WV. The blast occurred in a remote area and didn’t cause a fire or injuries, a spokesman said. The line was isolated shortly afterwards, and because it wasn’t a residential line, no one lost service, he said. The pipeline was continuing an investigation into the cause of the incident Monday.

The Minerals Management Service (MMS), looking to foster exploration in more remote areas of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf, is assessing industry interest in exploring for oil and gas in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea/Hope Basin and Norton Basin.