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FERC Thursday proposed revisions to the financial forms, statements and reports submitted by interstate natural gas pipelines to give the agency and shippers more current market and cost information about pipelines.

Port Dolphin Energy LLC, the U.S. subsidiary of the Norwegian company Hoegh LNG AS, has submitted applications to federal regulators to build and operate a deepwater port to deliver natural gas to Florida’s west coast.

Port Dolphin Energy LLC, the U.S. subsidiary of the Norwegian company Hoegh LNG AS, has submitted applications to federal regulators to build and operate a deepwater port to deliver natural gas to Florida’s west coast.

The self-styled “Panhandle complainants” have called on FERC to reject a cost-and-revenue study submitted by Southwest Gas Storage and to provide interim rate relief for storage customers, saying that the study does not represent a true picture of the company’s cost-of-service because it includes costs related to a new project at its North Hopeton storage field in Oklahoma. The project application, which was filed after FERC ordered the cost-and-revenue study, skews the cost data, the complainants said.

The “Panhandle complainants” have called on FERC to reject a cost-and-revenue study submitted by Southwest Gas Storage and to provide interim rate relief for storage customers, saying that the study does not represent a true picture of the company’s cost-of-service because it includes costs related to a project at its North Hopeton storage field in Oklahoma. The project, which was filed after FERC ordered the cost-and-revenue study, skews the cost data, the complainants said.

State regulators in Washington penalized electric and gas utility Puget Sound Energy (PSE) $995,000 for violating consumer privacy laws by intentionally sharing private customer information with an outside marketing partner without the customers’ written permission.

EnCana Corp. on Thursday submitted a Development Plan Application with Canadian regulatory officials to restart its dormant Deep Panuke natural gas project, located offshore Nova Scotia. A decision by officials on whether to proceed on the project is expected by summer.

A Tulsa, OK-based pipeline construction firm has been fined $150,000 for rigging the bids they submitted to BP America Production Co. for the construction of natural gas pipelines in the Upper San Juan Basin in Colorado.

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) staff last week submitted a counterproposal to Exelon and Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) that the NJBPU said “fairly addresses all important issues in the merger proceeding and is geared towards bringing positive benefits to the ratepayers and citizens of New Jersey.”