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In the wake of last week’s decision by the Argentine government to nationalize YPF SA, Moody’s Investors Service has placed Spain’s Repsol and Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC (M&N) under review for possible downgrades.

California natural gas for electricity generation rose nearly 250 MMcf/d in the past week in the wake of Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) taking its 2,300 MW San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) entirely offline. The shutdown came from a scheduled outage at Unit 2 and an unplanned outage of Unit 3 when a small leak occurred last Tuesday.

Still stung from federal rebukes of its past natural gas pipeline safety oversight in the wake of the San Bruno, CA, pipeline rupture in 2010, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is looking at ways to elevate safety considerations in all of its proceedings, including rate cases.

California regulators Thursday began to consider whether Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) violated state or federal rules regarding pipeline classification in the wake of the San Bruno transmission pipeline rupture and explosion last year. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) opened the case at its regular business meeting in San Francisco.

Anyone nostalgic for the natural gas infrastructure boom of the latter half of the last decade need only wake up to the natural gas liquids (NGL) infrastructure boom of today — and look forward to what’s to come in response to growing crude oil production — according to an analysis due to be finished in about three weeks.

Anyone nostalgic for the natural gas infrastructure boom of the latter half of the last decade need only wake up to the natural gas liquids (NGL) infrastructure boom of today — and look forward to what’s to come in response to growing crude oil production — according to an analysis to be finished in about three weeks.

In the wake of a Wyoming court’s recent decision rejecting the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) restrictions on categorical exclusions (CX), an agency official told Congress Friday that it plans to undertake a formal rulemaking of the waiver of environmental reviews for certain onshore oil and natural gas drilling projects. House lawmakers also said they planned to petition the Department of Justice (DOJ) to appeal the court ruling.

In the wake of a Wyoming court’s recent decision rejecting the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) restrictions on categorical exclusions (CX), an agency official told Congress Friday that it plans to undertake a formal rulemaking of the waiver of environmental reviews for certain onshore oil and natural gas drilling projects. House lawmakers also said they planned to petition the Department of Justice (DOJ) to appeal the court ruling (see Daily GPI, Aug. 16).

A big question mark hangs over global alternative energy markets and U.S. federal stimulus funding in the clean tech space in the wake of Wednesday’s announcement by California-based Solyndra LLC that it was shutting its solar manufacturing operations at a Fremont, CA, plant and seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.