Statoil/Gazprom Transactions Are Granted Waivers of Specified Capacity Release Requirements to Facilitate Transfer of Natural Gas Capacity on Cove Point Pipeline and Dominion

摘要

FERC, on 2/1/8/10, generally granted the December 1 petition of Statoil Natural Gas LLC and Gazprom Marketing and Trading USA, Inc.1 (RP10-197) for a waiver of the prohibition on tying capacity releases to extraneous conditions in order to allow petitioners to enter into and directly link a series of related liquefied natural gas (LNG) and pipeline capacity agreements. The Commission found that no waiver of the bidding requirements is necessary.