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The Commerce Department yesterday rejected a petition by a groupof Oklahoma independent producers that sought to have tariffsimposed on the crude oil imports of four foreign countries accusedof illegal dumping.

A major pipeline group last week sought rehearing of FERC’sremand decision on Sea Robin Pipeline on the grounds that it failedto include the “behind-the-plant” factor when determining thejurisdictional status of the offshore gas pipeline.

With prices looking up, Energy Search Inc. of Knoxville, TN,sought and will get a boost to help develop some of its oil and gasproperties. The company made a deal to accelerate development withSouthern Producer Services, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based SouthernEnergy Inc.

With prices looking up, Energy Search Inc. of Knoxville, TN,sought and will get a boost to help develop some of its oil and gasproperties. The company made a deal to accelerate development withSouthern Producer Services, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based SouthernEnergy Inc.

National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. and ANR Pipeline, sponsors of theproposed Independence Pipeline, are espousing a system alternativethat essentially would result in a considerably scaled-down versionof the competing Millennium Pipeline project.

National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. and ANR Pipeline, sponsors of theproposed Independence Pipeline, are espousing a system alternativethat essentially would result in a considerably scaled-down projectfor the competing Millennium Pipeline project.

Several Wisconsin utilities and gas producers have asked FERC toplay it cautious when reviewing ANR Pipeline’s application for asecond capacity expansion of its existing system through northernIllinois and southern Wisconsin markets.

Several Wisconsin utilities and gas producers have asked FERC toplay it cautious when reviewing ANR Pipeline’s application for asecond capacity expansion of its existing system through northernIllinois and southern Wisconsin markets.

The Ohio-Pennsylvania Landowners Association (OPLA) has calledon the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to commissiona General Accounting Office (GAO) study of the need for thecontroversial Independence Pipeline project.