Stipulation

A petition by Southern Natural Gas (SNG) pipeline to amend a stipulation and agreement requiring it to file a new rate case by the end of February has come under attack at FERC.

FERC Friday approved a stipulation and consent agreement levying nearly $12 million in penalties on Dallas-based Atmos Energy Corp. for capacity flipping and shipper-must-have-tile (SMHT) violations.

FERC last Monday approved a stipulation and consent agreement that requires South Jersey Gas Co. and South Jersey Resources LLC to pay more than $1 million in civil penalties and disgorged profits to resolve violations of the agency’s open-access transportation program, including failure to comply with the shipper-must-have-title (SMHT) requirement and post capacity releases for bidding.

FERC Monday approved a stipulation and consent agreement that requires South Jersey Gas Co. and South Jersey Resources LLC to pay more than $1 million in civil penalties and disgorged profits to resolve violations of the agency’s open-access transportation program, including failure to comply with shipper-must-have-title (SMHT) requirement and post capacity releases for bidding.

FERC’s Office of Enforcement has entered into a stipulation and consent agreement requiring Noble Energy Inc. to pay nearly $4.2 million in civil penalties and disgorged profits to settle violations of the agency’s shipper-must-have-title (SMHT) requirements, buy-sell arrangements and competitive bidding rules for long-term, discounted rate capacity releases.

FERC’s Office of Enforcement has entered into a stipulation and consent agreement requiring Noble Energy Inc. to pay nearly $4.2 million in civil penalties and disgorged profits to settle violations of the agency’s shipper-must-have-title (SMHT) requirements, buy-sell arrangements and competitive bidding rules for long-term, discounted rate capacity releases.

FERC’s Office of Enforcement has entered into a stipulation and consent agreement requiring Noble Energy Inc. to pay nearly $4.2 million in civil penalties and disgorged profits to settle violations of the agency’s shipper-must-have-title (SMHT) requirements, buy-sell arrangements and competitive bidding rules for long-term, discounted rate capacity releases.

FERC last Thursday approved a stipulation and consent agreement that requires Florida Power and Light Co. (FPL) to pay a civil penalty of $25 million for an operational staff error that plunged the lower two-thirds of Florida into a blackout in February 2008.

FERC last week approved separate stipulation and consent agreements requiring Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to pay $1.33 million and Louisville Gas and Electric Co. (LG&E) to pay $350,000 for violating the agency’s posting and bidding requirements of its capacity-release policies.