Resolution

A short-term continuing resolution (CR), which both houses of Congress were expected to vote out Tuesday, will provide additional funding to states for low-income energy customers.

Residents of Dimock Township in Susquehanna County, PA, whose drinking water supplies were contaminated by natural gas, are to receive a share of $4.1 million that Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. agreed to pay under a settlement negotiated with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

In granting a natural gas rate increase settlement for Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. (ONG), a division of ONEOK Inc., the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) early last week said the resolution provided a good balance between the need to ensure safe and reliable gas service and consumer concerns.

In granting a natural gas rate increase settlement for Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. (ONG), a division of ONEOK Inc., the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) on Monday said the resolution provided a good balance between the need to ensure safe and reliable gas service and consumer concerns.

The House Wednesday passed a conference report on the $3.5 trillion budget resolution for fiscal year (FY) 2010 that preserves President Obama’s priorities for green and clean energy. But it makes no assumptions that existing tax incentives for oil and natural gas producers should be repealed to pay for the green initiatives. Still, producers are by no means out of the woods.

House Republicans denounced a “discussion” draft of a continuing resolution (CR) that includes an energy bill (HR 6899) passed last week that would allow drilling as close as 50 miles off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Transwestern said it would complete resolution of a force majeure event at Compressor Station 2 near Flagstaff, AZ (see Daily GPI, March 18) by Thursday evening and was accepting Timely cycle nominations for Friday’s gas day on its Thoreau/West system up to the normal capacity of 1,220,000 MMBtu/d.

New Orleans-based Energy Partners Ltd. (EPL) has reached a resolution in the federal investigation into possible environmental violations at its East Bay field in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), it said on Friday.

New Orleans-based Energy Partners Ltd. (EPL) has reached a resolution in the federal investigation into possible environmental violations at its East Bay field in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), it said on Friday.