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The Long Beach, CA, city-run energy department Tuesday finalized a new, three-year natural gas supply deal with Shell’s gas marketing arm, Coral, providing about 5 Bcf annually beginning April 1, according the city’s energy services manager, Alyce McCall.

The Long Beach, CA, city-run energy department Tuesday finalized a new, three-year natural gas supply deal with Shell’s gas marketing arm, Coral, providing about 5 Bcf annually beginning April 1, according the city’s energy services manager, Alyce McCall.

FERC has given draft environmental clearance to Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.’s 245-mile Grassland Pipeline project, which would transport coalbed methane gas supplies from the Powder River Basin to markets in the Midwest.

FERC has given draft environmental clearance to Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.’s 245-mile Grassland Pipeline project, which would transport coalbed methane gas supplies from the Powder River Basin to markets in the Midwest.

The U.S. Patent Office has approved protections for a unit of San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s technology for installing fiber optic cable in live natural gas distribution pipelines without disturbing the flow of energy supplies.

While ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by the Liberal government in Ottawa irritated Canadian natural gas producers, a quieter decision on another environmental front prevented a comparable annoyance from spreading. Environment Canada ruled that there is nothing special about the Deep Panuke gas development project that requires extra scrutiny even though it taps sour gas offshore of Nova Scotia.

While ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by the Liberal government in Ottawa irritated Canadian natural gas producers, a quieter decision on another environmental front prevented a comparable annoyance from spreading. Environment Canada ruled that there is nothing special about the Deep Panuke gas development project that requires extra scrutiny even though it taps sour gas offshore of Nova Scotia.

The jury awarded $975,181.46 in actual damages and $60 million in punitive damages after less than a day’s deliberations. Southern Union had filed the case in the Arizona district court in July 1999.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued draft environmental clearance last Thursday to Greenbrier Pipeline Co. LLC’s $497 million pipeline project that, when completed, would serve the natural gas demands of the burgeoning power generation market in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, primarily in Virginia and North Carolina.