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With across-the-board federal budget cuts looming in the wake of the congressional super committee’s meltdown, the current spate of natural gas pipeline safety initiatives is unlikely to be harmed, according to a Washington, DC-based spokesperson for the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA).

Despite a recent spate of negative media attention, hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) in the Marcellus Shale is still supported by a majority of the general public, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Rochester Business Journal (RBJ).

Another project was added to the recent spate of pipeline proposals last week when WBI Holdings Inc. subsidiary Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co. (WBIP) announced plans to develop the Bakken Pipeline, a 100-mile pipe designed to transport gas from the fast-growing Bakken Play in northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana to an interconnect with Alliance Pipeline.

Another project was added to the recent spate of pipeline proposals late Monday when WBI Holdings Inc. subsidiary Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co. (WBIP) announced plans to develop the Bakken Pipeline, a 100-mile pipe designed to transport gas from the fast-growing Bakken Play in northwestern North Dakota and northeastern Montana to an interconnect with Alliance Pipeline.

As predicted, the latest spate of cold weather is proving to be short-lived, resulting in mixed price movement Thursday that was slightly weighted to the downside. Many points were less than a nickel up or down from flat.

The spate of producer-driven pipeline developments taking place today to move gas out of the Rockies and Midcontinent will result in infrastructure that is markedly different from what the gas industry has known during the last decade or two, a consultant told a Houston audience of pipeliners Thursday.

The spate of producer-driven pipeline developments taking place today to move gas out of the Rockies and Midcontinent will result in infrastructure that is markedly different from what the gas industry has known during the last decade or two, a consultant told a Houston audience of pipeliners last week.

In order to prevent a recurrence of the spate of leaks on its natural gas distribution system, Washington Gas Light (WGL) expects to complete construction in December of a facility that will mix heavier hydrocarbons with the regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG) flowing from Cove Point LNG’s import terminal on the Maryland coast to the utility’s system, said Chairman and CEO James DeGraffenreidt Jr. Thursday.

The cash market was still finding enough power generation load — prompted by a combination of warm temperatures and a spate of nuclear plant outages, both intentional and unscheduled — to eke out further generally small price gains at a majority of points Wednesday. But El Paso-San Juan quotes actually fell by 2-3 cents and several other points, nearly all of them in the West, were flat to barely higher. Gains ran as big as about 20 cents.