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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) supervisors exerted no pressure on staff to complete resource management plans (RMP) and did not violate any federal laws before conducting the controversial December 2008 natural gas and oil lease sale in Utah, the Interior Department’s inspector general (IG) said in a report.

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) supervisors exerted no pressure on staff to complete resource management plans (RMP) and did not violate any federal laws before conducting the controversial December 2008 natural gas and oil lease sale in Utah, the Interior Department’s inspector general (IG) said in a report.

FERC Thursday rejected a complaint alleging that Southern California Gas (SoCalGas) would violate federal regulations and the U.S. Constitution by levying a fee on natural gas-fired generators to gain access to its intrastate gas pipeline.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned a lower court’s ruling that Duke Energy Corp. did not violate clean air laws when it failed to obtain a permit before modernizing eight coal-fired power plants in North and South Carolina in a closely watched new source review (NSR) case.

The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service contends arecent bid to exclude Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) pipelines fromFERC’s industry-wide ban on “buy-sell” transactions is based on theincorrect assumption that such transactions routinely occur as partof the agency’s royalty in-kind (RIK) projects.

The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service contends arecent bid for FERC to exclude Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)pipelines from an industry-wide ban on “buy-sell” transactions isbased on the incorrect assumption that such transactions routinelyoccur as part of the agency’s royalty in-kind (RIK) projects.

FERC last week dealt another blow to El Paso Natural Gas,finding that the pipeline had violated the Gas Industry StandardsBoard’s (GISB) standards pertaining to confirmation deadlines andconfirmation quantities.

FERC yesterday dealt another blow to El Paso Natural Gas,finding that the pipeline had violated the Gas Industry StandardsBoard’s (GISB) standards pertaining to confirmation deadlines andconfirmation quantities.

Nymex futures once again were unable to buck the downtrend andcontinued to slip lower yesterday in quiet trade. The July Nymexcontract opened below $2 before breaking through long-term supportat $1.97 only to claw its way back up near the close. July settledat $1.976, down 5.1 cents for the day. In doing so, July posted thelowest level of any prompt contract since January.