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Williams Gas Pipeline snagged Duke Energy’s 9.8% stake in theAlliance Pipeline partnership yesterday. The transaction bringsWilliams’ total interest in Alliance to 14.6%. Transaction details,including share and unit prices, were not disclosed.

Seeking to add to its growing total of liquefied natural gas(LNG) deliveries at the Lake Charles, LA, complex, CMS Energyannounced a master agreement with Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Co.(ADGAS) yesterday for the purchase of spot cargoes from ADGAS toCMS Marketing, Services and Trading (CMS-MST). The volumes to bedelivered pursuant to the master agreement will be determined basedupon available production and market conditions, the company said.Financial terms or specific conditions within the agreement werenot disclosed.

Statoil Energy, the largest Appalachian Basin gas reserve holderand a top energy marketer and independent power producer, was puton the auction block yesterday after having failed in its attemptthis summer to find a partner to invest about $1 billion in itsfuture.

A study of 10 of the largest U.S. natural gas pipelines showsthey can expect to collectively derive a total of $42.5 millionannually in savings from Gas Research Institute technologies over afour-year period from 1997 to 2000, GRI said.

With the total number of open positions on its Waha futurescontract languishing under 400, the Kansas City Board of Trade hastaken measures that could signal the end of that contract as itcurrently exists. The exchange is in discussions withPG&E-Texas, the owner of the Waha hub, over potentialramifications of a switch to a basis contract tied to Nymex’s HenryHub futures contract.

With the total number of open positions on its Waha futurescontract hovering under 400, the Kansas City Board of Trade hastaken measures that could signal the end of that contract as itcurrently exists. The exchange said it is in discussions withPG&E-Texas, the owner of the Waha hub, over potentialramifications of a switch to a basis contract tied to NYMEX’s HenryHub futures contract.

The proposed marriage of KN Energy Inc. and Kinder Morgan Inc.has passed federal antitrust review and has been verbally approvedby Colorado regulators, which puts the deal on track to becompleted in the early fourth quarter, the companies said.

A 66% jump in Canadian exports is conceivable-all the way to an18% share of the total gas market in the United States, theNational Energy Board says in a landmark forecast. A new NEBreport, Canadian Energy Supply and Demand to 2025, says exportscould climb to a peak of 5 Tcf/year in 2018 if prices andtechnology make gradual but steady improvements.

A 66% jump in Canadian exports is conceivable-all the way to an18% share of the total gas market in the United States, theNational Energy Board says in a landmark forecast. A new NEBreport, Canadian Energy Supply and Demand to 2025, says exportscould climb to a peak of 5 Tcf/year in 2018 if prices andtechnology make gradual but steady improvements.