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The budding Canadian branch of shale gas production shows signs of growing up fast, reports the country’s chief transporter. The expanding Nova pipeline grid in Alberta and British Columbia (BC) has received requests for 2.5 Bcf/d of capacity additions by 2014 for output from the new supply source, reports TransCanada Corp. Vice President Max Feldman.

The budding Canadian branch of shale gas production shows signs of growing up fast, reports the country’s chief transporter. The expanding Nova pipeline grid in Alberta and British Columbia (BC) has received requests for 2.5 Bcf/d of capacity additions by 2014 for output from the new supply source, reports TransCanada Corp. Vice President Max Feldman.

The budding Canadian branch of shale gas production shows signs of growing up fast, reports the country’s chief transporter. The expanding Nova pipeline grid in Alberta and British Columbia (BC) has received requests for 2.5 Bcf/d of capacity additions by 2014 for output from the new supply source, reports TransCanada Corp. Vice President Max Feldman.

Columbia Gas is designating Wednesday as a Critical Day in Market Areas 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33 and 34. “Based on forecasted markets, available facilities and capacity utilization, transporter [Columbia] projects that all available capacity to the aforementioned Market Areas will be required to meet firm service obligations, leaving…zero nonfirm capacity,” the pipeline said. Shippers with primary firm rights or secondary priority rights in the affected Market Areas will not be impacted.

FERC’s well publicized enforcement actions against failed hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC and transporter Energy Transfer Partners in late July should put the rest of the energy industry on notice that the agency is ready and able to take action against bad actors in the industry, said Chairman Joseph Kelliher last Tuesday.

FERC Thursday granted Dallas-based transporter Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) an additional month to respond to a show-cause order, which accuses the company of manipulating the price of physical natural gas transactions.

FERC’s well publicized enforcement actions against failed hedge fund Amaranth Advisors LLC and transporter Energy Transfer Partners last week should put regulated energy companies on notice that the agency is ready and able to take action against bad actors in the industry, said Chairman Joseph Kelliher Tuesday.

Dominion Cove Point LNG LP, a transporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Washington Gas Light (WGL), has asked FERC to deny the Washington, DC-based utility’s request for an extension of the deadline to provide documents backing up its claim that deliveries from the LNG import terminal were responsible for the costly gas leaks on WGL’s distribution system in 2003.

TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., Canada’s top natural gas transporter, has put an end to prolonged conflicts with its customers by negotiating rate settlements on its principal delivery systems. The pipeline company announced a three-year agreement on Thursday on key items for establishing tolls on its Nova gas-gathering network in Alberta, source for about four-fifths of Canadian production.