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Although it lifted a meter-specific Balancing Alert OFO, Tennessee cited high temperatures across much of its system in saying a systemwide Imbalance Warning would become effective Wednesday. The action requires “all delivery and receipt point operators to match physical flow to scheduled volumes regardless of cumulative imbalance.” Later the pipeline also said that due to anticipated hot weather, it was issuing an OFO Action Alert for market-area Zones 5 and 6 that would take effect Thursday.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA), academia, industry and analysts on Tuesday continued to question why the New York Times (NYT) relied on misleading, outdated information — and failed to contact key resources — before publishing damning articles about the U.S. shale gas industry.

Legislation that would open leasing on all property owned by the state government — including state parks — to oil and gas companies is advancing through the Ohio General Assembly and is expected to pass.

In receipt of a local congresswoman’s letter with 14 specific suggestions related to natural gas pipeline safety, California regulators sat through a four-hour public hearing Tuesday night listening to residents recall in terrifying detail their experiences last Sept. 9 when a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) gas transmission pipeline erupted in an explosion and fire that killed eight people and devastated a quiet residential neighborhood in San Bruno, CA, south of San Francisco.

Pacific Gas and Electric issued a customer-specific Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Wednesday but is allowing it to expire Thursday.

After belatedly declaring a customer-Specific Stage 2 high-inventory OFO for Tuesday on its California Gas Transmission system, Pacific Gas and Electric will expand the OFO to systemwide Wednesday. Penalties for exceeding a 5% tolerance on positive daily imbalances will be $1/Dth.

The timing and magnitude of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) drilling recovery will be more “asset-specific” than any cyclical offshore drilling upswing in decades, the energy team at Raymond James & Associates said last week.

The timing and magnitude of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) drilling recovery will be more “asset-specific” than any cyclical offshore drilling upswing in decades, the energy team at Raymond James & Associates said Monday.

Colorado’s revised state-specific roadless proposal, which the state filed with the Agriculture Department’s U.S. Forest Service earlier this month, would not block oil and natural gas leasing in the state, but it would not allow road-building for any future leasing in some protected national forest areas in Colorado, according to a spokesman with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).