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Dominion announced Monday that it has fully subscribed the marketed capacity of its proposed export liquefaction facility under 20-year terminal service agreements.

U.S. natural gas prices may well go higher over the next 18 months to two years, but a few things could stand in their way, including stronger-than-forecast dry gas output from unconventional plays, including the Haynesville and Barnett shales, Credit Suisse analysts said Wednesday.

Owensboro, KY-based Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline. Inc. said Friday that due to the fully subscribed status of its existing firm storage service it is seeking to expand the capacity of its Elk City storage field near Independence, KS.

Kern River Gas Transmission’s fully subscribed 2010 Expansion of capacity from Lincoln County, WY, to Kern County, CA, was certificated by FERC last Thursday, despite the protest of a real estate developer that claims higher pipeline operating pressures will scare buyers away from its master-planned community west of the Las Vegas Valley.

Kern River Gas Transmission’s fully subscribed 2010 Expansion of capacity from Lincoln County, WY, to Kern County, CA, was certificated by FERC Thursday, despite the protest of a real estate developer that claims higher pipeline operating pressures will scare buyers away from its master-planned community west of the Las Vegas Valley.

In response to “numerous requests” for new storage service due to the fully subscribed status of its existing firm storage services, Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Inc. has launched an open season to solicit binding bids for new firm service in the Midcontinent.

The first cavern at the Bobcat Gas Storage facility in St. Landry Parish, LA, has completed one week of operations and is fully subscribed, while a second cavern is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2009, Bobcat’s owners said Wednesday.

There’s no room left in the pipe, according to the partner backers of the Midcontinent Express Pipeline LLC (MEP) project, who said Wednesday their project is fully subscribed at its initial capacity of 1.4 Bcf/d.

CenterPoint declared a Critical Period Thursday, saying its system is fully subscribed and operating at or near full utilization, and thus it “is requiring customers systemwide, particularly those whose swings can cause operational difficulties…to take deliveries as close to ratably as possible throughout the day during the period that this alert is in effect.” CenterPoint said it will not allow shipper’ takes to exceed hourly ratable entitlements (based on nominated and scheduled quantities) by more than 5% in any hour at the Perryville Hub, 20% in any hour for the North Louisiana and East Texas Core and Secondary systems, and 50% per hour for the remainder of the system.