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Spectra Energy Partners LP’s plan to acquire Ozark Gas Transmission LP and various assets from Atlas Pipeline Partners LP (APL) for $300 million cash, as well as Williams’ proposal to form a midstream joint venture (JV) with APL, have cleared federal antitrust authorities.

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will hold a series of public hearings in various parts of the state served by Spokane, WA-based Avista Utilities to gain public input on Avista’s proposed general rate increases of $2.7 million for natural gas and $31.2 million for electricity utility customers, or 3% and 12.8%, respectively, the PUC said Friday.

CIG said various operating conditions related to gas loading factors in its Segment 118, located in the Oklahoma Panhandle, have caused variations in pressure that affect the pressure needed to deliver gas to the east end delivery points of Segment 118. “To assist in controlling these varying pressure levels, CIG will establish a new constraint point: Beaver East (BEC) between Beaver…and Floris (FRS),” the pipeline said. The operationally available capacity at this point will be 210 MMcf/d beginning Thursday. The new BEC constraint point will limit deliveries to FRS, Forgan, Mocane and Mid-America, CIG said, but it will not affect firm primary nominations.

The oil and natural gas industry is positioned to lead and benefit from the commercialization of various carbon sequestration strategies, according to a report issued Feb. 12 by Cambridge, MA-based Emerging Energy Research (EER). The report concludes that there is a potential $30-70 billion annual industry waiting to emerge by 2030 in the carbon capture and storage (CCS) business.

The oil and natural gas industry is positioned to lead and benefit from the commercialization of various carbon sequestration strategies, according to a report issued last Thursday by Cambridge, MA-based Emerging Energy Research (EER). The report concludes that there is a potential $30-70 billion annual industry waiting to emerge by 2030 in the carbon capture and storage (CCS) business.

While the economy continues to send shivers through various clean fuel sectors, California’s budding electric and natural gas transportation space remains healthy and optimistic, according to major utilities in the state. Several officials told NGI in January that both the infrastructure and the vehicles (dedicated and converted) are taking shape in the nation’s most automobile-dense state.

While the economy continues to send shivers through various clean fuel sectors, California’s budding electric and natural gas transportation space remains healthy and optimistic, according to major utilities in the state. They told NGI that both the infrastructure and the vehicles (dedicated and converted) are taking shape in the nation’s most automobile-dense state.

Houston-based Western Gas Partners LP Monday closed its $210 million purchase of all or parts of various Powder River Basin processing and gathering infrastructure from Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which previously formed Western and eventually spun it off. Some of the purchase involves percentage interests in the Anadarko assets.

Attorneys general from 14 states, along with various state and city authorities, last Monday jointly urged the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to address global warming. California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown called for a reversal of what he called EPA’s “shameful inaction” by the federal agency.