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While one aboriginal group is still putting up a fight, others are declaring the Canadian Arctic open for business, and the natural gas industry is betting the majority will prevail in the Northwest Territories. Devon Canada Corp. declared intentions to go ahead on the first new Beaufort Sea drilling campaign in more than 20 years.

Houston-based Petal Gas Storage LLC has scheduled an open season between Oct. 1-7 for up to 600,000 MMBtu of firm natural gas storage capacity and up to 60,000 MMBtu of firm transportation capacity beginning April 1.

Houston-based Petal Gas Storage LLC has scheduled an open season between Oct. 1-7 for up to 600,000 MMBtu of firm natural gas storage capacity and up to 60,000 MMBtu of firm transportation capacity beginning April 1.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has deferred for an additional five days — until its next regular meeting on May 5 — the publication of a staff report on whether price indices used in pipeline tariffs are in compliance with the agency’s new mandated standards for price reporting and reflect sufficient liquidity at referenced pipeline locations.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has deferred for an additional five days — until its next regular meeting on May 5 — the publication of a staff report on whether price indices used in pipeline tariffs are in compliance with the agency’s new mandated standards for price reporting and reflect sufficient liquidity at referenced pipeline locations.

Late Wednesday afternoon Columbia Gas, in what it called a “pre-Operational Flow Order warning for all transportation rate schedules at MLI 72-23 (UGI Corporation-23),” said it has recently experienced lower than normal pressures on its Lines 1278 and 10110 in Market Area 23. “This low-pressure problem was created by shippers’ excessively high hourly rates at MLI 72-23,” the pipeline continued. See the bulletin board for a list of “actions that Columbia’s shippers can take now to reduce the possibility that Columbia will need to issue an OFO in the future.”

Tennessee lifted Thursday a Critical Day 1 OFO Alert (see Daily GPI, Nov. 4) for customers under Rate Schedules LMS-MA and LMS-PA. However, customers under Rate Schedule FS, including customers utilizing the Storage Swing Option (SSO) service, will remain subject to the alert until further notice.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has scheduled two days of hearings on Sept. 3 and 4 to explore the reasons for the massive cascading blackout that hit eight states and two Canadian provinces last week.

The Florida Energy Office (FEO) will be holding regional meetings throughout the state to get public input into development of an energy plan incorporating resources and conservation to provide for an increasing population, particularly in the most populated and fastest-growing southeast area of the state.