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Industry officials were disappointed in President Obama’s jobs speech Thursday, saying their pleas for him to make oil and natural gas the “centerpiece” of his jobs-creation effort fell largely on deaf ears.

After ending a previous Overage Alert Day (OAD) Friday but saying a new one might become necessary soon, Florida Gas Transmission wasted little time before implementing a new OAD for market-area customers Saturday. The tolerance for negative daily imbalances was initially set at 20% that day but was increased to 25% Sunday and Monday.

Dominion Cove Point LNG LP (DCP) has filed an application with the Department of Energy (DOE) to re-export foreign-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG), saying this would give its import customers the flexibility to respond to demand and price swings in foreign markets and would maintain DCP’s terminal in a “cooled-down state” so it can continue to operate.

Dominion Cove Point LNG LP (DCP) has filed an application with the Department of Energy (DOE) to re-export foreign-sourced liquefied natural gas (LNG), saying this would give its import customers the flexibility to respond to demand and price swings in foreign markets and would maintain its near-idle terminal in a “cooled-down state” so it can continue to operate.

Although it lifted a meter-specific Balancing Alert OFO, Tennessee cited high temperatures across much of its system in saying a systemwide Imbalance Warning would become effective Wednesday. The action requires “all delivery and receipt point operators to match physical flow to scheduled volumes regardless of cumulative imbalance.” Later the pipeline also said that due to anticipated hot weather, it was issuing an OFO Action Alert for market-area Zones 5 and 6 that would take effect Thursday.

Citing a need to maintain linepack and protect system integrity, Tennessee issued Monday a Balancing Alert OFO for market-area Zones 5 and 6, saying shippers in those zones were required to maintain an actual daily flow rate not exceeding a tolerance of 2% of scheduled quantities or 500 Dth, whichever is greater, for underdeliveries into the system and overtakes from the system.

Biased. Irresponsible. Unfathomable. And just plain wrong.

A panel of energy and technology executives Tuesday reiterated the need for a national energy policy, saying it would help both traditional energy sources, such as natural gas, and various renewables, such as wind energy, which is experiencing a marked slowdown in its U.S. growth.

There is no doubt that shale gas will be a factor in future natural gas supply forecasts, but how big the role that turns out to be is still uncertain as a “huge learning curve” accelerates, a lead gas analyst at the California Energy Commission (CEC) told NGI last Friday.