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Enterprise Products Partners announced Monday that it began receiving the first of what eventually will be very large natural gas and oil production flows from several major deepwater fields in the Gulf of Mexico into the Manta Ray Offshore Gathering System, the Nautilus Gas Pipeline and the recently completed Cameron Highway Oil Pipeline System.

A proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project emerging in its very early stages through the Oregon energy siting process is being backed by a private group of four natural gas industry veterans who expect to have a FERC application filed next year for a relatively small-scale $150 million receiving terminal and peaking generation plant at Coos Bay, OR.

A proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project emerging in its very early stages through the Oregon energy siting process is being backed by a private group of four natural gas industry veterans who expect to have a FERC application filed next year for a relatively small-scale $150 million receiving terminal and peaking generation plant at Coos Bay, OR.

A proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project emerging in its very early stages through the Oregon energy siting process is being backed by a private group of four natural gas industry veterans who expect to have a FERC application filed next year for a relatively small-scale $150 million receiving terminal and peaking generation plant at Coos Bay, OR.

Results from a FERC staff survey sent to energy companies in March show that industry’s confidence in and use of published natural gas price indexes are relatively high, but the level of participation by companies reporting information about their gas trades to publishers’ price surveys still is an open question.

A new National Energy Board (NEB) report found a “very close linkage and consistency” in gas prices between domestic markets in the Canadian Maritimes provinces and export markets in the United States.

A new National Energy Board (NEB) report found a “very close linkage and consistency” in gas prices between domestic markets in the Canadian Maritimes provinces and export markets in the United States.

With most of the remaining very cold weather staying confined to the Rockies, Upper Plains and western Midwest, a significant rally in prices did not seem to be in the cards. But numbers rose at all points Tuesday between about 15 cents and 30 cents, with a large majority of gains being in the 20s.

Continuing to follow Nicor Gas and a subsidiary’s actions very closely, the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) said late last week that Nicor Solutions is using “deceptive marketing” to pitch a pilot program that charges consumers $107 a year to protect against high natural gas prices — a plan the board contends never would have saved Nicor’s customers any money in the history of the gas market.