Response

ConocoPhillips during 3Q2010 curtailed about 180 MMcfe/d in North America, mostly in Western Canada, in response to continuing low natural gas prices, the producer said Wednesday.

In response to a motion by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. District Court in New Orleans has ordered that a security zone be established around the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

In response to the mayor of San Bruno’s inquiry, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) committed last Friday to reroute the repaired 30-inch diameter transmission pipeline that failed Sept. 9 in a suburban San Bruno, CA, neighborhood killing eight people. The repaired pipeline will be moved away from the devastated area where 37 homes were destroyed and many others damaged.

Largely in response to the explosion earlier this month on a Pacific Gas and Electric pipeline that killed at least four people, Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood sent legislation to Capitol Hill last Wednesday that seeks to increase oversight of the nation’s aging pipeline system.

Largely in response to an explosion on a Pacific Gas and Electric pipeline that killed at least four people last Friday, Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Ray LaHood sent legislation to Capitol Hill Wednesday that seeks to increase oversight of the nation’s aging pipeline system.

El Paso canceled a warning Thursday of a possible Strained Operating Condition because of system drafting, saying customer response was sufficient to increase its linepack to acceptable levels.

In response to a mid-2008 incident when it still operated a natural gas utility in the state, PNM Resources’ New Mexico utility was fined $371,000 Tuesday by the state Public Regulation Commission (PRC) for allegedly mishandling a gas leak in an underground vault at a busy Albuquerque intersection. The regulators said it was the largest penalty ever assessed on a utility in the state.

In response to cries for more regulation in the offshore, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday announced plans to split the Minerals Management Service (MMS) into two independent entities, with one enforcing safety and environmental matters and the other handling leasing, revenue collection and permitting functions.

The head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) last Thursday took Wall Street to task for its chilly response to calls for reform of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market that has been proposed by Congress in its sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system.