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The Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) is “about two-thirds finished” and the REX-East portion that runs to Lebanon, OH, will be ready for service by the end of this month, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP) CEO Rich Kinder said Tuesday.

President-elect Barack Obama has picked Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, who runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the University of California, to be secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE) in his administration, and has selected experienced regulators to oversee three other offices dealing with energy, environmental and climate-change issues, Washington sources said. No formal announcement had been issued Thursday morning.

The long awaited start-up of the remaining 210-mile portion of REX-West, which runs from an ANR Pipeline meter station in Brown County, KS, to Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line (PEPL) in Audrain County, MO, has finally arrived as Rockies Express announced Friday that full service will begin on Tuesday.

The long awaited start-up of the remaining 210-mile portion of REX-West, which runs from an ANR Pipeline meter station in Brown County, KS, to Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line (PEPL) in Audrain County, MO, has finally arrived as Rockies Express announced Friday that full service will begin on Tuesday.

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX) has formally asked FERC for authorization to put in service the remaining 210-mile portion of REX-West that runs from an ANR Pipeline meter station in Brown County, KS, to Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line in Audrain County, MO.

Pacific Gas & Electric did not extend a systemwide low-inventory OFO beyond Tuesday.

Still languishing in a legally imposed “silent” period that runs until Dec. 10, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) nevertheless is keeping a busy pace preparing to make a deluge of key regulatory filings by the end of the year on its proposed $7.4 billion merger with a consortium of Australian and Canadian private equity interests bidding to take the Bellevue, WA-based utility private.

Given the billions of dollars that are being invested to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the United States, Alaska runs the risk of being “marginalized” as a source for gas supplies to meet domestic demand, FERC said last Monday in its second report to Congress on the Alaska gas pipeline.

Given the billions of dollars that are being invested to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the United States, Alaska runs the risk of being “marginalized” as a source for gas supplies to meet domestic demand, FERC said Monday in its second report to Congress on the progress being made on an Alaska gas pipeline.