Within days of the disclosure of drug usage, inappropriate sexual activity and contract misconduct at the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS), a former deputy associate Monday pleaded guilty to a felony violation of the restrictions on post-government employment that involved the illegal awarding of a contract to a company of a retired agency colleague (see Daily GPI, Sept. 11).
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Southern California Gas declared an OFO for Saturday’s Timely Cycle, limiting deliveries into its system to 110% of a customer’s expected usage.
AGA Says Gas-Heated Homes on the Rise
Natural gas usage levels are continuing a strong growth trend as more and more consumers are using the commodity to heat their homes. Of the single-family homes constructed in 2000, 70% of them featured natural gas heat, according to the 2000 Residential Natural Gas Market Survey released Friday by the American Gas Association (AGA). Electric heat captured 27%, followed by heating oil at 3%, the survey found.
Chevron System Manages Energy Use, Emissions
Chevron Corp. announced Tuesday it is using a new system to manage its energy usage more effectively and monitor greenhouse gas emissions from all of its worldwide operations. Chevron Energy and Greenhouse Gas Inventory System (CEGIS) is an automated, electronic data management information system that is designed to gather monthly energy and greenhouse gas emissions data from Chevron’s worldwide exploration and production, refining and marketing, petrochemicals, transportation and coal activities.
El Paso’s Somerhalder Says Frontier, LNG Key
Normal temperatures have returned to North America, but naturalgas usage, which powers nearly three quarters of the continent,remains high, said El Paso Corp.’s John Somerhalder II, who made itclear that the market will continue to grow at a rapid rate — buthe muddied his forecast by questioning where the gas would befound, calling the “challenges more severe than we anticipated.”
ICC Rules 5-0, Investigations Commence on LDCs
With December natural gas usage bills hitting extraordinarilyhard in Illinois this year, city and state legislators have set outin search of clues as to why gas prices are through the roof.Spurred by the urgings of Gov. George H. Ryan and variouslegislators, the Illinois Commerce Commission voted 5-0 to open aninvestigation into this winter’s natural gas price spikes. The ICCalso directed its staff to put together its final report within 60to 120 days (see Daily GPI, Jan. 10).