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The American Public Gas Association (APGA) has called on the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to begin collecting and disbursing “relevant and timely” natural gas production and consumption information on a regular basis to help temper the “extreme price swings” in the market.

Kern River Gas Transmission Co., a unit of Williams, is holding a binding open season for seasonal and year-round firm backhaul transportation service from a new interconnect with Questar Pipeline’s ML No. 104 near Elberta, UT, to markets along the Wasatch Front upstream of the interconnect.

Just back from recess, Democrats in the House of Representatives last week continued to round up support for a discharge petition that would force consideration of energy price-cap legislation on to the House floor. The Democrats now need less than 60 signatures from lawmakers in order to move the price-cap bill sponsored by Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA), directly to the House floor.

Amid stronger cash market prices and another round of blackoutsin California, natural gas prices finished on a positive note forthe third session in a row Monday, as traders covered shorts in anotherwise quiet day. April finished 2.8 cents better at $5.063.

A new round of expansion is getting under way in the buddingnatural gas industry in eastern Canada, starting with constructionof the last missing link in the country’s transcontinental pipelinegrid. Longer range, there are possibilities of a new majorpipeline to transport Atlantic Canada production to major markets.

A new round of expansion is getting under way in the buddingnatural gas industry in eastern Canada, starting with constructionof the last missing link in the country’s transcontinental pipelinegrid. Longer range, there are possibilities of a new majorpipeline to transport Atlantic Canada production to major markets.

Gas traders and independent power producers won an early roundin a long, many-sided contest developing before the National EnergyBoard over costs of excess capacity created by the Canadianpipeline expansion wave.

Gas traders and independent power producers won an early roundin a long, many-sided contest developing before the National EnergyBoard over costs of excess capacity created by the Canadianpipeline expansion wave.

Fueled by another round of bullish weather forecasts andfollowing on the heels of gains achieved in Thursday night’s Accesstrading session, natural gas spiraled higher Friday, as traderstook back ground lost earlier in the week. When the dust hadcleared and the orders were counted in the data room at Nymex, theJanuary contract was 98.3 cents higher on the day, but still off18.8 cents for the week.