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<font size="-1"><i>By Joseph Silha, NEW YORK, Nov. 16 (Reuters)</i>

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<font size="-1"><i>By Matthew C. Quinn, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Nov. 16</i>

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<font size="-1"><i>By Steve Everly, The Kansas City Star, Mo., Nov. 17</i>

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<font size="-1"><i>LONDON, Nov 16 (Reuters) -</i> 

Fears that terrorists could use gas tankers as floating missiles against U.S. cities, just as they did with airliners on September 11, could force the United States to move its gas import terminals offshore. 

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<font size="-1"><i>LONDON, Nov 17 (Reuters)</i> 

Both financial and trade buyers are considering bids for Wessex Water, the UK utility owned by crisis-hit U.S. energy group Enron, weekend press reports said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>FRANKFURT, Nov 16, 2001 (AFX-Europe via COMTEX) -- </i> 

E.ON AG can count on extensive German government support for its aim to acquire the majority shareholding in Ruhrgas AG, Berliner Zeitung newspaper said, citing sources. 

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<font size="-1"><i>NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters)</i> 

Spot natural gas prices in Canada plummeted Friday, dropping for the seventh day in a row on continued warm weather, limited demand, and packed storage, industry sources said. 

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NYMEX Hub gas mostly ended higher Friday despite a sinking cash and mild weekend forecasts, lifted by some short covering ahead of the weekend, industry sources said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Bill McAllister, The Denver Post, Nov. 15</i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 16, 2001 (TradeSignals via COMTEX) -- </i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 16, 2001 - FWN Financial News</i> 

Natural gas futures finished higher today, getting a lift on a technical bounce and perhaps also continuing to react some to activity taking place in the petroleum energy futures, sources said. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov. 19 (Btu Watch)</i> 

Earlier this year, Cove Point LNG Limited Partnership (Cove Point) requested permission to provide LNG tanker services on a firm and interruptible basis and under proposed new Rate Schedules LTD-1 and LTD-2 to BP Energy Company, Shell NA LNG, Inc., and El Paso Merchant Energy, L.P. 

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<font size="-1"><i>WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) -</i> 

Major gas transmission companies have agreed to reconstitute a partnership to carry natural gas from Alaska to markets in Canada and the lower 48 U.S. states, Alaskan Sen. Frank Murkowski announced on Thursday. 

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<font size="-1"><i>PERTH, Nov 16, 2001 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Origin Energy managing director Grant King said today that Australia's SEA gas pipeline between Victoria and Adelaide was on time and on budget, and would deliver gas in late 2003. 

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Under auspices of the European Union, two studies of pipeline transportation out of Caspian Sea producing areas have concluded that such systems are technically, economically, and environmentally feasible but depend critically on route selection. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 18, 2001 - Cox News Service</i> 

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<font size="-1"><i>By David P. Willis, Asbury Park Press, N.J., Nov. 16</i> 

New Jersey Natural Gas Co. customers will see rates drop 12 percent by Jan. 1 as the company takes advantage of a drop in wholesale natural gas prices, a spokeswoman said yesterday. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 15 - Greensboro News Record</i> 

The City Council has lowered its natural gas rate, which will mean homeowners will be paying less to heat their houses this month. 

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The number of rigs searching for oil and gas in the United States fell by 17 to 993 during the week ending Nov. 16, according to oil services firm Baker Hughes. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle, Nov. 17</i> 

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When the Times-Union requested public records from the JEA this summer, it found an eye-opening story: Some homeowners had used millions of gallons of water to maintain their lawns while Jacksonville suffered from a drought. 

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Pemex Gas and Basic Petrochemicals Director Marcos Ramirez Silva said the company has no intention of canceling its contracts with industrial gas consumers to supply them with natural gas for three years at the fixed price of 4 dollars per million BTUs, reported Mexico City daily Reforma. 

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UtiliCorp United Inc. is facing 10 lawsuits over its plans to reacquire all stock in Aquila Inc., but a top UtiliCorp executive said Thursday that the company was hearing little opposition and had no plans to change its offer. 

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Some big pension funds that invested in Enron Corp. said on Friday they are considering legal options in the wake of the energy giant's stock collapse and a regulatory probe of its dealings. 

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<font size="-1"><i>By Lee Hawkins Jr., Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 16</i> 

State Senator Rod Moen and several business and consumer groups blasted the Public Service Commission's lawyer Monday for a legal opinion that non-lawyers should not be allowed to participate in rate cases and other formal agency proceedings. 

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Dominion Resources Inc. said it planned to eliminate 19 -- or nearly a quarter -- of its senior managers by year's end and will transfer its top local manager back to its Richmond, Va., headquarters. 

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<font size="-1"><i>The Wichita Eagle, Kan., Nov. 15</i> 

The president of KGE announced his retirement Wednesday, the same day that executives of Western Resources unveiled plans to merge KPL and KGE under a new name, Westar Energy. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 17, 2001 - FT World Media Abstracts via Comtex</i> 

Belgian gas and electricity sector unions, respectively FEG and CGSLB, have accepted the terms of a protocol agreement on the status of employees at Electrabel. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Moscow, Russia, Nov 16, 2001 (RosBusinessConsulting via COMTEX) -- </i> 

The Russian gas giant Gazprom has signed an agreement with a group of western banks about a long-term credit worth $200 million for five years. 

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Enron Corp., the once-mighty energy trader, is dumping money-losing assets and focusing on its core wholesale power marketing business as it moves toward a merger with rival Dynegy Inc. 

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BG increased its operating profits for the third quarter by 20% to GBP202m, due primarily to a 22% rise in gas prices. 

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Two leading British energy groups, BG and International Power, yesterday brushed aside sliding oil and power prices as they delivered higher profits and forecast earnings growth. 

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Italian oil and gas group Eni wants to expand its way into the heavyweight league by buying more companies and increasing its exploration activity, top managers were quoted as saying on Saturday. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Moscow, Russia, Nov 16, 2001 (RosBusinessConsulting via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Ukraine's parliament ratified on Thursday key agreements between Kiev and Moscow on restructuring debts for Russian natural gas supplies, opening the way for the government to start the repayments. 

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France's state gas company Gaz de France will invest US$500mn in Mexico in the next five years in projects related to gas transportation, the company's president of Mexican operations Gerard Mallett said, newspaper El Economista reported. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Mexico, Nov 16, 2001 (BNamericas.com via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Mexico's federal Energy Department head Ernesto Martens Rebolledo has signed a coordination agreement with Mexico state governor Arturo Montiel Rojas on the distribution, transport and storage of natural gas in Mexico state. 

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<font size="-1"><i>MEXICO CITY, Nov 16, 2001 (El Universal/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Private industry held back 15.683 billion pesos of investment in the Mexican energy sector this year, despite having agreed with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) to make these investments, reported Mexico City daily el Universal. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 15, 2001 - FT World Media Abstracts via Comtex</i> 

Having privatised the motorways, the French government is now turning its gaze to France's gas transport infrastructure. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 16, 2001 - FT World Media Abstracts via Comtex</i> 

Verbundnetz Gas AG, Germany's second-largest gas supplier, would be affected if the conglomerate E.ON AG were to succeed in acquiring a majority stake in Ruhrgas, the country's largest gas supplier, as it is thought that Ruhrgas would have to reduce its stake in VNG from the current 36.84 per cent. 

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<font size="-1"><i>Nov 15 - BBC Monitoring Central Asia</i> 

The Oil and Gas Transportation [OGT] company [Transport Nefti i Gaza] company has drawn up a programme whereby approximately 500m dollars will be invested in the development of the country's gas transportation system by 2005, OGT first deputy general director, Kairgeldy Kabyldin, told journalists in Almaty today. 

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<font size="-1"><i>MEXICO CITY, Nov 16, 2001 (Reforma/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- </i> 

Beginning next year, the Energy Regulation Commission (CRE) will begin the second stage of tenders for natural gas distribution zones, reported Mexico City daily Reforma. 

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