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Energy trading and marketing will come back, veteran energy analyst John Olson believes, and “I think E&P will be the sector driving the train.”

Energy trading and marketing will come back, veteran energy analyst John Olson believes, and “I think E&P will be the sector driving the train.”

Rather than extending FERC’s standards of conduct to cover mostly all energy affiliates of power/natural gas transmission providers, a Dominion Resources official proposed last week that the Commission focus on identifying the specific functions of energy transmission providers and their affiliates that could lead to sharing of competitive market information, and place restrictions in those areas.

If you’re planning to come to Washington, DC to visit the Enron exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution, you might want to re-think that trip. There’s not going to be any Enron display, says a museum official, who noted that news stories about an Enron display were, to put it mildly, greatly exaggerated.

“I don’t think there’s a [budget] number big enough” to provide the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with all of the resources it would need to review every quarterly filing of every publicly traded company with a fine-tooth comb, said Chairman Harvey Pitt during a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing last week.

“I don’t think there’s a [budget] number big enough” to provide the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with all of the resources it would need to review every quarterly filing of every publicly traded company with a fine-tooth comb, said Chairman Harvey Pitt during a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing Monday.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission signaled a key shift in its policy on negotiated transactions Tuesday, saying now it will require pipelines negotiating individual deals that include “material deviations” from their form of service agreements to offer the service to other similarly situated shippers on their systems.

There was still plenty of heat to go around, but expectations of another bearish storage report and further dismissal of a tropical wave threat to the Gulf of Mexico led most points to range from essentially flat to about 15 cents lower Wednesday. The lion’s share of declines were less than a dime, and several Rockies pipes achieved double-digit increases.

Though natural gas prices have been sliding in the last few months, plans to construct an Alaskan natural gas pipeline into Canada and the Lower 48 are moving to the fast track, as producers and business groups, eager to move the process forward, push their proposals this month during a two-day hearing in Anchorage.