Seeks

Pipeline-on-pipeline competition in the Colorado and Wyomingregion will have to wait at least another year, says KN WattenbergTransmission LLC. It has asked FERC for a one-year extension tobuild and put into operation its proposed 109-mile Front RunnerPipeline, which was supposed to begin service this month.

A major gas pipeline group has asked the federal government toreject a producer petition that seeks to have tariffs imposed oncrude oil imports from four foreign countries accused of illegaldumping.

Following the leads of Atlanta Gas Light and National Fuel,Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) last week requested a 17-monthwaiver of FERC’s “shipper-must-have-title” policy in order tomaintain gas supply reliability when its customer choice program isexpanded to all of its 540,000 residential customers in November.

A very divided FERC last week proposed a rulemaking that seeksto create a uniform, complaint-driven system for regulating nearlyall offshore gas pipelines based on its authority under thelighter-handed Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA).

Following the leads of Atlanta Gas Light and National Fuel,Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) last week requested a 17-monthwaiver of FERC’s “shipper-must-have-title” policy in order tomaintain gas supply reliability when its customer choice program isexpanded to all of its 540,000 residential customers in November.

A very divided FERC yesterday approved a proposed rulemakingthat seeks to create a uniform, complaint-driven system forregulating all offshore gas pipelines based on its authority underthe lighter-handed Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA).

Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) last week asked FERC to extend thewaivers and limited jurisdiction blanket certificate that wereapproved a year ago on a limited basis to help carry out theutility’s retail gas unbundling program in Georgia.

Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) has asked FERC to extend the waivers andlimited jurisdiction blanket certificate that were approved a yearago on a limited basis to help carry out the utility’s retail gasunbundling program in Georgia.

CTG Resources Inc., parent of Connecticut Natural Gas, announcedit has retained Paine Webber Inc. to advise it on strategicalternatives to maximize shareholder value, including the potentialsale of the company and acquisitions of nonregulated enterprises toexpand the company’s district heating and cooling activities.