Joe Fisher

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company LLC (Transco) is seeking offers from shippers to relinquish firm capacity on its system to support the proposed Atlantic Sunrise Project, which is intended to serve Marcellus Shale production.

The future of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Barnett Shale town of Denton, TX, will likely be in voters’ hands this November. For one reluctant activist pushing to ban the well stimulation practice, the trip to the polls began years ago.

Legislation (SB 138) to advance a large-diameter natural gas pipeline to commercialize Alaska’s North Slope gas resources via liquefied natural gas (LNG) export passed out of the Alaska House Resources Committee Wednesday and is to be taken up by the House Finance Committee. Senate Bill 138 provides the framework for Alaska to become an owner in the Alaska LNG Project and move the project into the pre-front end engineering and design stage — designing the project and refining associated cost and engineering elements. The state Senate passed the bill last month (see Daily GPI, March 19).

Athlon Energy Inc. is buying 23,500 net acres in Texas counties Martin, Upton, Andrews and Glasscock for $873 million in cash…

Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Inc. is holding a binding open season through May 7 for incremental firm service from existing/new receipt points to existing/new delivery points to serve markets that include Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. The proposed expansion “further offers shippers impacted by this past winter an opportunity to mitigate future capacity shortfalls,” the pipeline said. Southern Star is also interested in receiving nonbinding bids for capacity. Contact Philip Rullman (270) 852-4440; Jim Neukam, (270) 852-4665; or Pat Coomes, (270) 852-4552; or visit the pipeline’s website.

With numerous U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects creeping toward first cargo and a posse of would-be exporters on the Canadian west coast, global buyers might be looking to North America as their future cheap gas breadbasket. They probably shouldn't, said analysts at BernsteinResearch in a note last week.

With the sale of utility Alabama Gas Corp. (Alagasco) to the Laclede Group inc., Permian-focused Energen Corp. will have after-tax proceeds of about $1.1 billion…

Spain’s Endesa SA has signed a second, smaller sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Cheniere Energy Inc. unit Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC for 0.75 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the terminal Cheniere is developing on the Texas coast. The SPA is in addition to a previously signed SPA under…

The Laclede Group Inc. is buying Alabama's largest natural gas utility, Alabama Gas Corp. (Alagasco), from Energen Corp. in a $1.6 billion deal that continues to grow Laclede's utility footprint while making Energen a pure-play exploration and production (E&P) company.