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TransCanada Corp. has been given unprecedented power to set prices for natural gas transportation and should try to make the freedom work instead of seeking even more concessions at the expense of shippers, the National Energy Board (NEB) has been told.

TransCanada Corp. has been given unprecedented power to set prices for natural gas transportation and should try to make that work instead of seeking more concessions at the expense of shippers, according to filings with the National Energy Board (NEB).

An “extremely” warm summer, combined with coal-to-gas switching, has created an “unprecedented” Bcf/day swing in the year/year natural gas supply/demand balance, which should lead to higher prices through the second half of the year, according to energy analysts with Raymond James & Associates Inc.

An “extremely” warm summer, combined with coal-to-gas switching, has created an “unprecedented” Bcf/day swing in the year/year natural gas supply/demand balance, which should lead to higher prices through the second half of the year, energy analysts with Raymond James & Associates Inc. said Monday.

Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s U.S.-focused natural gas production is forecast to drop by 7% in 2013, bringing “to an end our likely unprecedented public company record of 23 consecutive years of gas production growth,” CEO Aubrey McClendon said during an earnings conference call last week.

Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s U.S.-focused natural gas production is forecast to drop by 7% in 2013, bringing “to an end our likely unprecedented public company record of 23 consecutive years of gas production growth,” CEO Aubrey McClendon said Tuesday.

An unprecedented midstream infrastructure building boom offers the potential for tens of thousands of jobs and a $511 billion cumulative boost to the U.S. economy during the next 23 years, according to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA). The infrastructure is necessary to deliver domestic natural gas, liquids and crude oil from domestic shale plays.

An unprecedented midstream infrastructure building boom offers the potential for tens of thousands of jobs and a $511 billion cumulative boost to the U.S. economy during the next 23 years, according to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA). The infrastructure is necessary to deliver domestic natural gas, liquids and crude oil from domestic shale plays.

In a highly unprecedented move, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Tuesday ordered Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas and Electric Co. (SDG&E) to stop the use of helicopters until their safe use can be assured in the utility’s massive $1.9 billion Sunrise Powerlink transmission line project, the combination utility’s largest infrastructure project in four decades.