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WASHINGTON— Phillip D. Wright, President of Williams Gas Pipeline and Chairman of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) Board of Directors, announced today that the interstate natural gas pipeline industry has adopted a set [...] Read More

 INGAA requests that the Commission: (1) not impose a definite implementation date at this time to allow time for software development and testing, and continue to provide a testing site after implementation; (2) provide alternate procedures or [...] Read More

On May 19,  2008 INGAA submitted comments in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NOPR") issued by the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration ("PHMSA") to promulgate regulations that would establish [...] Read More

INGAA requests the Commission retract the NOPR’s proposed amendment of 18 C.F.R. § 284.13(d), and thereby refrain from requiring interstate pipelines to post daily actual flows. Should the Commission instead go forward with an actual [...] Read More

The appendix, in particular, is designed to show the reader, using the Word program’s redline/strikeout feature, the difference between the regulatory text proposed by the Commission in it's Notice for Proposed Rulemaking, and the changes to [...] Read More

INGAA's comments were generally supportive of FERC's proposed new approach, which focuses on (1) “marketing” activities rather than the more expansive concept of “Energy Affiliate” activities, and (2) on the functions [...] Read More

Attached to the Interestate Natural Gas Association of America (“INGAA”)'s post-technical conference supplemental comments is an affidavit of its witness, Dr. Michael J. Vilbert, in response to the Reply Comments of the State of [...] Read More

At the January 23, 2008 technical conference, the Commission Staff stated its intent to seek Commission approval for a round of reply comments in addition to the round of initial comments scheduled by the Commission. On January 31, 2008, the [...] Read More

These comments reinforce INGAA's position that the Commission’s use of GDP for the long-term growth variable of the Discounted Cash Flow methodology produces reasonable results and should be [...] Read More

In response to the Commission’s “Notice of Technical Conference and Request for Additional Comments,”[1] issued on November 15, 2007, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (“INGAA”) hereby submits the [...] Read More

On January 25, INGAA filed comments on the Commission’s notice of proposed rulemaking in which it proposed to lift the maximum rate cap on short-term capacity release transactions and relax the tying prohibition and bidding requirements to [...] Read More

(Washington, DC) A new study by the Natural Gas Council concludes that legislation to be debated in the U.S. Senate this week is likely to increase natural gas demand without addressing the need for increased supply. David Parker, president and CEO [...] Read More

In October 2007, U.S. Senators Joseph I. Lieberman (Independent-CT) and John W. Warner (Republican-VA), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection, [...] Read More

The Clean Air Act (CAA) general conformity provisions state that: No department, agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government shall engage in, support in any way or provide financial assistance for, license or approve any activity which does [...] Read More

This white paper, Waste Heat Opportunities for Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines, prepared for INGAA by Bruce A. Hedman, an expert on distributed generation and waste energy recovery with the consulting firm of EEA-ICF, analyzes the current status [...] Read More

The EPA signed the Final IC Engine Rules on December 20 and posted the signature version on-line on December 21.  The Final Rule was published in the Federal Register today, January 18, 2008.  The "consolidated" rule includes the [...] Read More

The natural gas pipeline industry constructs new pipelines in hundreds of acres of wetlands annually and conducts maintenance operations in approximately 2,800 acres of wetlands. These projects also cross hundreds of thousands of tributaries and [...] Read More

In a single, easy-to-use volume, the Desk Book captures a wealth of background information about the interstate natural gas pipeline industry in the United States. The Desk Book spans many topics,including the evolution of natural gas regulation, [...] Read More

  Richard Hoffmann Named as Executive Director of the INGAA Foundation   WASHINGTON-- The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) announced today that Richard R. Hoffmann will join the staff of INGAA on January 21, 2008 as [...] Read More

INGAA submits the following comments on the Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend its forms, reports and statements for natural gas companies (i.e., Forms 2, 2-A, and 3-Q). The Commission’s proposal will [...] Read More