<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>   <rss version="2.0">   <channel>        <title>Platts News: Latest Natural Gas Headlines from Platts.com</title>           		<link>http://www.platts.com?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>		<description>Natural Gas Headlines from Platts.com: Platts, a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), the world's leading provider of energy information.</description>		<language>en-US</language>		<copyright>Copyright &#169; 2006 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.          http://www.mcgraw-hill.com</copyright>				<category>Latest Natural Gas Headlines</category>		<image>			<url>http://www.platts.com/images/latest_natural gas_headlines_title.gif</url>			 <title>Latest Natural Gas Headlines</title>			<link>http://www.platts.com?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>		</image>		<managingEditor>webeditor@platts.com</managingEditor>		<webMaster>webeditor@platts.com</webMaster>		<pubDate> 4 Jul 2009 02:24:10 GMT</pubDate>                                		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Russian agency says MOL-Russneft JV violating license: report]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Moscow (Platts) -- 3Jul2009 -- Russia's environmental authorities have accused a joint venture between
Hungary's MOL and Russia's Russneft, which is developing a major field in West
Siberia, of violating license terms on the utilization...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8683523.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8683523.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Indonesia's Tangguh to deliver first LNG cargo on Saturday]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Jakarta (Platts) -- 3Jul2009 -- Indonesia's Tangguh LNG project is scheduled to deliver its first cargo
to South Korea's Posco as early as Saturday, a senior Indonesian oil ministry
official said Friday.
     &quot;It had earlier been scheduled...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/7967745.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/7967745.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[US natural gas industry may be close to hitting bottom: Barclays]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Washington (Platts) -- 2Jul2009 -- A &quot;race to the bottom&quot; in the natural gas market is almost complete, and
the industry is now waiting for signs that the cutback in drilling rigs or
lower imports of liquefied natural gas will have a meaningful...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8682983.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8682983.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Upper Midwest spot gas prices sink on mild weather, weak NYMEX]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Houston (Platts) -- 2Jul2009 -- Spot natural gas prices fell across the Upper Midwest on Thursday on weak
fundamentals in advance of the extended US Independence Day weekend, normally
the lowest demand holiday of the year.

     Temperatures...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8681469.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8681469.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Russia seeks cooperation with Turkey on South Stream]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Moscow (Platts) -- 2Jul2009 -- Russia is seeking Turkey's support for the Gazprom-proposed South Stream
gas pipeline and has invited it to participate in the project &quot;in any way,&quot;
senior Russian government officials said Thursday. ...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8679812.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8679812.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Political posturing threatens Indonesia's DS LNG project]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Jakarta (Platts) -- 2Jul2009 -- Indonesia's Donggi-Senoro LNG project in Central Sulawesi province is in
jeopardy after the country's vice president Jusuf Kalla last month said output
from the plant should be prioritized for the domestic...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8679809.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8679809.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[New York pension fund to drop $86.2 mil from energy firms on Iran]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[New York (Platts) -- 1Jul2009 -- The New York state comptroller decided to divest $86.2 million in
investments from major oil and natural gas companies due to their reported
investments in Iran and Sudan, as officials in California are...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6447362.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6447362.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Fracking regulations could cost US billions of dollars: API study]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Houston (Platts) -- 1Jul2009 -- The American Petroleum Institute issued a new study Wednesday saying that
legislation pending before the US Congress to regulate hydraulic fracturing
could cost the US economy as much as $374 billion in...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6447204.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6447204.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[UK's San Leon targets gas shale play in northern Poland]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[London (Platts) -- 1Jul2009 -- UK-based exploration minnow San Leon Energy is expanding its shale
activities with the award of an exploration license in the Baltic Basin
onshore northern Poland, the company said Wednesday.

     The...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8676554.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8676554.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[StatoilHydro, SSE start operations at UK's Aldbrough gas storage]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[London (Platts) -- 1Jul2009 -- StatoilHydro, the Norwegian producer, and UK utility Scottish & Southern
Energy announced Wednesday the start of commercial operations at their joint
Aldbrough gas storage facility in the north of the...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8676302.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8676302.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[EIB lends GBP360 million to UK's National Grid for gas upgrades]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Brussels (Platts) -- 1Jul2009 -- The European Investment Bank has agreed to lend British power and gas
grid operator National Grid GBP360 million ($505 million) to support upgrading
and extending its four gas distribution grids in England,...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8676261.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8676261.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Analysts see benefits in UNG's plan for 12-month gas strip fund]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Houston (Platts) -- 30Jun2009 -- While the US Commodity Fund's decision to launch a 12-month strip
version of its US Natural Gas fund may reduce investor risk, the move could
put downward pressure on the prompt-month NYMEX gas futures...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6446143.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6446143.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[REX buying lifts Rockies spot gas prices, Northwest prices fall]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Houston (Platts) -- 30Jun2009 -- Higher-than-normal temperatures in parts of the Rocky Mountains and
active buying to send supply to the Rockies Express Pipeline's newly opened
East leg propped up spot natural gas prices in the region,...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6445293.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/6445293.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                            		<item>	           			<title><![CDATA[Gas exporters must work together more closely: Russia]]></title>			<description> <![CDATA[Doha (Platts) -- 30Jun2009 -- Russian energy minister Sergei Shmatko Tuesday called on gas exporting
countries to work together to develop mutually beneficial policies in order to
promote development.

     &quot;It is necessary to seek...]]></description> 			<link>http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8672557.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</link>			<category>Natural Gas</category>			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.platts.com/Natural Gas/News/8672557.xml?src=Natural Gasrssheadlines1</guid>			</item>                          </channel></rss>	