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Multiple solutions will be required to meet energy demand and curtail greenhouse gas emissions that will result from population growth and economic expansion, ExxonMobil Corp. said in its “Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030,” the latest iteration of the annual report. Fossil fuels will retain their primacy among energy sources, but nuclear power and renewable energy will take a growing slice of the pie.

Multiple solutions will be required to meet energy demand and curtail greenhouse gas emissions that will result from population growth and economic expansion, Exxon Mobil Corp. said in its “Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030,” the latest iteration of the annual report. Fossil fuels will retain their primacy among energy sources, but nuclear power and renewable energy will take a growing slice of the pie.

MidAmerican Energy Co. and an Iowa-based apartment owner are required to pay nearly half of a million dollars and to carry out remediation of a Superfund site of a former gas plant in Iowa City, IA, under a proposed consent decree published Thursday.

Georgia natural gas marketer Catalyst Energy Group and two affiliates have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after losing a required credit line and contracted fuel supply.

Tennessee reported identifying a leak on the North Odem 3A-100 lateral between Main Line Valve 3 and Station 9 near Odem, TX. The Morgan meter was required to shut in. Tennessee allowed shipper nominations there to remain in place for Friday’s gas day, but said nominations were being taken to zero in the Timely cycle for Saturday until further notice.

Tennessee said it was required to take line section 13-3 to 14-3 of the 100 Line in South Texas out of service Saturday morning to replace pipe at four sites that were identified as needing immediate anomaly remediation. The section is expected to return to service by the end of the Aug. 25 gas day. Three meters will be shut in for the duration of the outage. In addition, this work will limit the throughput capacity of Station 17 (East Bernard, TX) and potentially restrictions through a pro rata portion of Secondary Out of the Path nominations through the station may become necessary, Tennessee said.

After warning earlier Monday that it might be required to declare a Strained Operating Condition (SOC) due to excessive drafting of its system, El Paso later followed through by declaring an SOC-Draft to become effect Tuesday for eight specified locations. El Paso initially set the tolerance for negative daily imbalances at 10% but said it “will reduce the imbalance tolerance if conditions do not sufficiently improve. A combination of receipt underperformance and takes in excess of scheduled quantities has resulted in a substantial loss of linepack on [the El Paso] system over the past weekend with linepack at approximately 7,200 MMcf. Washington Ranch [storage facility] is on withdrawal at maximum rate.”

Columbia Gas Transmission said based on forecasts, available facilities and capacity utilization, it projects that all available capacity to most of its market areas will be required to meet firm service obligations, leaving no excess capacity. Therefore, zero non-firm capacity is available to the those areas.

Citing welding delays in repairing a Saturday rupture west of Cheyenne Station (see Daily GPI, Nov. 14), Wyoming Interstate Co. said it was required to maintain a curtailment of mainline capacity through its Laramie East constraint point to zero through at least Wednesday. Flow through the Medicine Bow Lateral was not impacted, WIC said. “At this time, WIC anticipates that it will be able to accept nominations…Wednesday for its full Wyoming mainline capacity” in the Timely cycle for Thursday’s gas day, the pipeline said.