KeySpan Energy, Long Island's natural gas supplier, owns 24percentt.
The company failed to take control of a power company and a natural gas supplier in Belgium over the last two months.
Bolivia, Brazil's chief natural gas supplier, shocked Brazil in 2006 by nationalizing the energy industry, with Venezuela's help.
Gazprom, the natural gas supplier, resumed fuel shipments to Germany, Lithuania and Poland through Belarus after a competitor, Transnafta, agreed to sell natural gas to Belarus until the end of February.
Centrica, Britain's largest natural gas supplier, agreed in December to buy Enron's British energy-supply business and some assets for $137.1 million.
Seven hundred and twenty thousand may sound like a lot of ladybugs, but Tishman Speyer officials said they were assured by Planet Natural, the supplier, that it was the appropriate number.
Britain's dominant natural gas supplier, Centrica P.L.C., agreed to buy Direct Energy Marketing of Canada and Natural Gas Wholesalers for $612 million in cash and debt to expand into North America.
Greece's problem-plagued privatisation programme, which is key to the country's economic recovery and meeting its bailout targets, has received yet another blow with the failure of the planned sale of a state-owned natural gas supplier.
NiSource Inc., owner of Indiana's largest utility, said yesterday that it would eliminate about 800 jobs to cut costs after it completed its $8.5 billion purchase of the natural gas supplier Columbia Energy Group.
The agency, the Board of Public Utilities, granted immediate increases of 16percenttoto Public Service Electric and Gas, the state's largest natural gas supplier, with 1.6 million customers, and the New Jersey Natural Gas Company, which has about 400,000 customers.
