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FERC Thursday approved four stipulation and consent agreements, requiring marketers and other energy firms to pay more than $8 million in civil penalties and disgorge approximately $4 million in unjust profits for allegedly engaging in fraudulent open-season bidding for natural gas transportation capacity on the Cheyenne Plains Natural Gas Co. pipeline. The agency also issued two orders to show cause resulting from an 18-month investigation into the illegal activity.

FERC has approved a stipulation and consent agreement requiring NorthWestern Corp. and its subsidiary NorthWestern Services LLC (NWS) to pay a civil penalty of $450,000 for self-reported violations of the shipper-must-have-title (SMHT) requirement and to submit semiannual compliance monitoring reports for one year.

FERC has approved a stipulation and consent agreement requiring NorthWestern Corp. and its subsidiary NorthWestern Services LLC (NWS) to pay a civil penalty of $450,000 for self-reported violations of the shipper-must-have-title (SMHT) requirement and to submit semiannual compliance monitoring reports for one year.

Southern California Gas did not extend a high-linepack OFO beyond Saturday.

Looking to streamline document handling, FERC Thursday finalized a rule requiring all tariff filings by public utilities, natural gas pipelines and oil pipelines be made electronically.

Fewer storage service providers are requiring customers to draw down their storage levels at the end of the winter heating season, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a new report released last Monday.

Fewer storage service providers are requiring customers to draw down their storage levels at the end of the winter heating season, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a new report released Monday.

A House subcommittee will hold a hearing Wednesday to respond to requests for the federal government to change its law requiring natural gas pipelines to reinspect their systems every seven years.

FERC last Tuesday approved a stipulation and consent agreement requiring Louisiana-based Cleco Power LLC to pay a civil penalty of $2 million for violating its code of conduct and a settlement agreement approved by the agency in 2003.