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Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX) received a certificate of public convenience and necessity from FERC Thursday to allow the company to open its existing Seneca Lateral to transportation service under the federal Natural Gas Act (NGA).

Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX) received a certificate of public convenience and necessity from FERC Thursday to allow the company to open its existing Seneca Lateral to transportation service under the federal Natural Gas Act (NGA).

Houston-based CenterPoint Energy Services Inc. (CES) plans to acquire Continuum Retail Energy Services LLC and its Lakeshore Energy Services LLC unit for $77.5 million plus working capital. The deal also includes the natural gas wholesale assets of Continuum Energy Services LLC.

ThePublic Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO)has fined Columbia Gas of Ohio $200,000 for a March 2015 home explosion in Upper Arlington, a suburb of the state capitol Columbus. Under an agreement reached with regulators, the company must also take steps to improve record keeping and enhance safety outreach throughout its service territory. A PUCO investigation revealed that an old natural gas service line leading to the home was replaced, but it was not properly disconnected from Columbia’s main line. A curb valve to the old line was misidentified as a water valve and when it was turned on, gas flowed into the house and ignited. While various parties were involved in causing the accident, PUCO staff concluded that Columbia did not follow its operating procedures to properly abandon an old service line. PUCO said the explosion caused an estimated $9 million in property damage. The company must pay the fine to the state’s general revenue fund and hold an additional $200,000 in abeyance should it fail to fulfill its obligations under the agreement.

Basic Energy Services Inc.’s well servicing rig hours and drilling rig days continued to slide in December and fall sharply from a year ago during an exceptionally slow holiday period, CEO Roe Patterson said Tuesday.

Global operator Archer Ltd. is buying a major stake and contributing well services entities to Houston’s Quintana Energy Services LP (QES) to create a North American onshore-focused oilfield services business.

Natural gas remained high atop the list of energy sources in terms of total installed operating generating capacity, but wind power outpaced gas in newly installed power generation capacity so far this year, according to data from FERC.

National Fuel Gas Supply’s (NFG) Northern Access 2015 Project, a 97-mile pipeline in Pennsylvania and New York designed to expand deliverability of Marcellus Shale gas to the northeastern United States and Canada, has been authorized by FERC to be placed into service.

FERC has given a subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Co. (NFG) permission to place into service a key pipeline element of its $76.1 million West Side Expansion and Modernization Project [CP14-70] in western Pennsylvania, about three weeks before the original in-service date.