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Futures and cash raced each other higher in trading for the week ended January 8, with the February futures squeaking out a narrow half-cent margin over a strong cash market.

Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) have gone to war over failed steam generators from the Japanese industrial titan that caused the closure in June of SCE’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) along the Pacific Coast in north San Diego County.

Canada’s Natural Gas Exchange (NGX) on June 8 launched four new major clearing points in the U.S. at the SoCal Citygate, NNG Ventura, ANR SE pool, and Tennessee 800L, along with three additional smaller points in Canada.

Canada’s Natural Gas Exchange (NGX) on June 8 launched four new major clearing points in the U.S. at the SoCal Citygate, NNG Ventura, ANR SE pool, and Tennessee 800L, along with three additional smaller points in Canada.

With December and the onset of the winter natural gas demand season, the more than doubled capacity at Southern California Gas’ key Southern California interconnection, Kramer Junction, is operational but so far it is far from being fully utilized, a utility spokesperson said Friday in response to a NGI inquiry.

With December and the onset of the winter natural gas demand season, the more than doubled capacity at Southern California Gas’ key Southern California interconnection, Kramer Junction, is operational but so far it is far from being fully utilized, a utility spokesperson said Friday in response to a NGI inquiry.

Neighboring California utilities, Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. and Edison International’s Southern California Edison Co., traded accusations during the opening last week of evidentiary hearings in an 18-month-old state regulatory investigation of the wholesale natural gas market during the state’s energy crisis in 2000-2001.

Neighboring California utilities, Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. and Edison International’s Southern California Edison Co., traded accusations during the opening last week of evidentiary hearings in an 18-month-old state regulatory investigation of the wholesale natural gas market during the state’s energy crisis in 2000-2001. SoCalGas has had to fight off relentless accusations by Edison that the gas utility and its Sempra affiliate, San Diego Gas and Electric Co., constrained supplies from storage to push up wholesale gas prices.

Overruling the base commander, Defense Department officials confirmed last Monday that ChevronTexaco is looking at the 200-square-mile Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Training Center in north San Diego County for possible on- and offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal sites. Last week the commander of the base wrote California officials saying he was unequivocally opposed to a LNG site on or near the coastal training base.