The Foster Natural Gas/Oil Report (North America) addresses significant regulatory and business events that impact all segments of the natural gas and oil industries.  Topics of interest can include, but are not limited to, production, marketing, transportation, distribution, and end use.  The Foster Report incorporates into its narratives the laws, regulations, and financial factors that drive not only the federal agenda but also local, state, and international developments in the oil, natural gas, and energy fields.  The company publishes the most thorough review of activities at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.

This week in Foster’s:

• TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline Project is Back on the Desk of the State Department
• Natural Gas Transportation Projects in Limbo — Sponsored by TransCanada Alaska, Transco, and National Fuel Gas Supply
• Interior’s Federal Rules Governing Hydraulic Fracturing Are Portrayed as Update of Outdated Regulations and Refinement Designed to Reinforce State and Gas/Oil Industry Efforts to Undertake Consistent and Safe Drilling Operations
• FERC Denies Market-Based Rates Sought by Enterprise Products and Enbridge for Their Jointly Owned Reversed Seaway Pipeline
• Central New York Oil and Gas Faces Off With Environmentalists in the Federal Second Circuit Over Extent of FERC’s NEPA Obligation To Consider Cumulative Impacts of MARC I Project
• FERC Revisits Three Issues Reserved for Hearing in El Paso’s 2008 Rate Case
• Dominion Cove Point LNG Awaits Final FERC Approval of Settlement of its Rate and Operational Issues That Have Been the Subject of Negotiations for About a Year