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With a few flat to mildly softer points tucked into every market area, prices found enough heating load Wednesday for an overall advance. Gains ranged from 2 or 3 pennies to as much as a quarter.

With a few flat to mildly softer points tucked into every market area, prices found enough heating load Wednesday for an overall advance. Gains ranged from 2 or 3 pennies to as much as a quarter.

Scared off by the $6 psychological mark yet again, the natural gas futures prompt month tucked tail Friday as the June contract notched its second consecutive down day. After penetrating the $6 level in trading Wednesday, the June contract followed up its Thursday drop of 4.2 cents with a 6.2-cent loss on Friday to close at $5.862. The prompt month traded in the $5.850-5.970 range on light volume, with 48,826 contracts changing hands.

Tucked away in the corner of the spacious and empty Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center earlier this month, a joint federal-local port hearing on Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi’s proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal drew many community stakeholders, but only three independent citizens, none of whom objected to accelerated preliminary environmental review.

Tucked away in the corner of the spacious and empty Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center last Thursday night a joint federal-local port hearing on Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi’s proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal drew many community stakeholders, but only three independent citizens, none of whom objected to accelerated preliminary environmental review.

Tucked inside a “supplemental notice” addressing FERC’s interimreliability measures, the Commission last week said it “has begunand will continue an extensive review and audit” of electrictransmission owners’ Open Access Same-time Information System(OASIS) sites to ensure compliance.