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Sponsors of the Weaver’s Cove LNG project say the tactic used last summer by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) to block their project was creative but won’t prevent them from building the LNG import terminal on the Taunton River.

The cash market once again displayed amazing resilience in achieving increases — most of them fairly substantial — at all points Friday. In doing so, it swam against the negative tide of milder weather returning to key northern market areas, prior-day screen weakness, a highly bearish storage situation and the usual decline of industrial load over a weekend.

“The overall damage caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has shown them to be the greatest natural disasters to oil and gas development in the history of the Gulf of Mexico,” said MMS Regional Director Chris Oynes.

Southern Natural Gas said it resumed offshore construction activities last Monday after suspending them for about seven days due to adverse weather conditions. Based on the best information available, Southern projected these return-to-service dates for the remaining portions of its offshore system that were damaged during Hurricane Katrina: east of Main Pass 298 Junction Platform, Dec. 25; 12-inch line from Main Pass 298 “A” to Main Pass 298 “B,” Jan. 11, 2006; 20-inch line from South Pass 62 “B” to Main Pass 298 “B,” Feb. 28, 2006; 18-inch line from Main Pass 306 “D” to Main Pass 293, Feb. 28, 2006; and the 14-inch line from Main Pass 153 to South Pass 62 “B,” March 16, 2006. An in-service date for the 12-inch line to West Delta 133 is dependent on producer repairs, Southern said. An OFO Type 6 remains in effect for Friday on Southern’s contiguous system; the pipeline said Thursday it is “too close to call” on whether the OFO will be extended beyond Friday.

FERC has upheld a prior order retaining its existing policy on selective discounting for interstate natural gas pipelines, allowing them to offer discounts to shippers to compete effectively with other gas pipelines as well as alternate fuels.

FERC last Wednesday voted to retain its existing policy on selective discounting for natural gas interstate pipelines, allowing them to offer discounts to customers to compete effectively with other gas pipelines.

FERC on Wednesday voted to retain its existing policy on selective discounting for natural gas interstate pipelines, allowing them to offer discounts to customers to compete effectively with other gas pipelines.

Drawing a legal distinction between facilities and companies developing them, the California Public Utilities Commission Thursday unanimously instituted an investigation of the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Long Beach Harbor, including the determination that the Mitsubishi Corp. subsidiary proposing to build the terminal is a “public utility” under California law and must gain CPUC approval to build the project.

Nevada Power Co. last Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), several officials with the Colorado River Commission (CRC) and a former Enron Corp. trader in which Nevada Power alleges that the defendants manipulated western power markets in 2000-2001 at the expense of the Nevada-based electric utility.