Upheld

FERC has upheld a June 2006 order approving a policy statement that took a pipeline-by-pipeline approach to the complex issues of natural gas quality and interchangeability (see NGI, June 19, 2006).

FERC Friday upheld a June 2006 order approving a policy statement that took a pipeline-by-pipeline approach to the complex issues of natural gas quality and interchangeability (see Daily GPI, June 16, 2006).

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a natural gas company’s right to drill beneath the Montana ranch of candy billionaire Forrest Mars. The ruling, considered significant for its split-estate implications, also offers a cautionary tale about proper paperwork.

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a natural gas company’s right to drill beneath the Montana ranch of candy billionaire Forrest Mars. The ruling, considered significant for its split-estate implications, also offers a cautionary tale about proper paperwork.

FERC Thursday upheld its October remand order that allowed Dominion Cove Point LP and Dominion Transmission Inc. to complete an expansion of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on Maryland’s eastern shore and associated pipeline facilities, while at the same time barring the delivery of additional regasified LNG volumes to Washington Gas Light’s (WGL) distribution system to shield it from further leaks.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. sighed a breath of relief early last week after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a Lake Charles, LA, federal court’s 2007 decision that the company did not have to pay the U.S. government millions of dollars in royalties on eight oil and natural gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. sighed a breath of relief Monday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a Lake Charles, LA, federal court’s 2007 decision that the company did not have to pay the U.S. Government millions of dollars in royalties on eight oil and natural gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

A federal appeals court last week upheld all of the 19 convictions against former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling. However, the three-judge panel ordered that the former Enron boss be resentenced, which likely will reduce Skilling’s prison sentence.

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld all of the 19 convictions against former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling. However, the three-judge panel ordered that the former Enron boss be resentenced, which could reduce Skilling’s prison term of 24 years and four months.