Petroleum News and our brief commentary.  Southcentral Alaska gas utility Enstar Natural Gas Co. has submitted three new gas supply contracts to the Regulatory Commission of Alaska for approval. One of the contracts, for gas from Buccaneer Energy’s newly discovered Kenai Loop gas field on the Kenai Peninsula, commits firm gas supplies after Cook Inlet Natural Gas Storage Alaska’s new Kenai Peninsula gas storage facility goes into operation in 2012.  The other two contracts, with Aurora Gas and Cook Inlet Energy, will enable those companies to help bolster Enstar’s peak winter gas supplies by participating in the gas bidding system that Enstar pioneered in the winter of 2010-11 — Enstar has insufficient contracted, guaranteed gas supplies to meet projected peak winter demand and has instigated the bidding system to obtain gas to fill shortages on a day-to-day basis.  Comment:  We think it was last year that we reminded the RCA of the disasterous gas supply contract decision made by 3 of its 5 commissioners that would have provided secure supplies of gas to Southcentral Alaska through 2016 at moderate prices.  As a former commissioner who voted in the winter of 2006-7 to stay with wise precedent and approve those contracts, I have no interest in reliving the past–only to remind commissioners and the public of the profound effect of Commission actions on the economy and future of Alaska.  -dh