Upgrading

With an emphasis on upgrading hurricane prediction technology and landfall probability, federal agencies involved in hurricane research said last week that they have mapped out the future of hurricane forecasting capabilities in the publication “Interagency Strategic Research Plan for Tropical Cyclones: The Way Ahead.”

With an emphasis on upgrading hurricane prediction technology and landfall probability, federal agencies involved in hurricane research said Tuesday that they have mapped out the future of hurricane forecasting capabilities in the publication “Interagency Strategic Research Plan for Tropical Cyclones: The Way Ahead.”

Despite having its plate full with fresh natural gas storage data and the upgrading of Adrian to a Category One Hurricane in the Pacific, June natural gas had a mostly uneventful trading day Thursday.

Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., which two weeks agoannounced it was increasing its capital budget nearly $50 millionmore this year, said it has completed two system expansion projectsin North Texas, boosting both natural gas sales and gas liquidsproduction.

Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co. is in the midst ofupgrading firm transportation capacity on its system inanticipation of supplying cheaper Powder River Basin gas toshippers on Northern Border Pipeline, who it believes will bedeprived of economical Canadian gas supplies when Alliance Pipelinegoes into service in October.