Richard Nemec began writing for NGI in 1995 and has 30 years experience in the energy industry. He holds BA from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and a MA in journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; and completed MBA courses at Northwestern's Evening Graduate School of Management.
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Oxy Mum on Williston Sale Rumors, Cites Ongoing Strategic Review
Exactly a year after it said parts of its 2.5 million acres in the Midcontinent could be up for sale, a Houston-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. (Oxy) spokesperson refused to comment Thursday on rumors in North Dakota that Oxy was selling all of its more than 330,000 acres in the Williston Basin for an asking price of $3 billion.
October 10, 2014
California Issues More Changes to Fracking Rules
California oil/natural gas regulators on Thursday issued yet another set of draft well stimulation rules, including for hydraulic fracturing (fracking), making further refinements based on nearly 200,000 comments that have been accumulated in the past 10 months. One change has raised the proposed threshold level for seismic activity tied to well stimulation to 2.7 from a previously proposed level of 2.0.
October 10, 2014
Pace of North American NGV Market Slows, Volvo Says
The pace of development of the alternative fuel vehicle market has slowed, prompting Volvo Trucks to cut back on its development efforts in the natural gas vehicle (NGV) sector.
October 10, 2014
Clean Energy Adds Heavy-Duty Fueling Deal
California-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. and Texas-based Dillon Transport have inked a multi-year fueling agreement and plan to open three more compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations.
October 9, 2014
Gas Glut Dissected by Variety of Forum Speakers in West
With varying degrees of bullishness, industry leaders, analysts and government representatives last Tuesday deconstructed the U.S. natural gas bonanza that seems to be the gift that keeps on giving, but not without various strings attached.
October 9, 2014
Pressure Mounts to Oust California’s Chief Regulator
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) President Michael Peevey won’t seek another term after his expires at the end of this year, he said Thursday after more revelations emerged of inappropriate communications with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) executives.
October 9, 2014
New Gas Processing Plant Opens in Wyoming PRB
Denver-based Meritage Midstream Service II LLC has completed and brought online its new natural gas processing plant, 50 Buttes, in Campbell County, WY. It will serve producers in the Powder River Basin (PRB).
October 9, 2014
People
Natural Gas Vehicles for America (NGVAmerica), a Washington, DC-based trade group promoting all forms of natural gas-powered vehicles, named Matthew Godlewski president. He succeeds Rich Kolodziej, who had served as president of the organization since 1996. Early this year, Kolodziej said he would be retiring. Godlewski comes from the Washington, DC-based Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, where he was vice president for state affairs. Prior to that he worked in the wine and spirits industry as a state/federal policy director. He will start heading NGVAmerica in mid-October. Godlewski is a graduate of Michigan State University.
October 9, 2014
Two Workers Hurt in Colorado Encana Wellhead Rupture
Two contract workers were hurt, one critically, on Wednesday in far western Colorado’s Mesa County while working on a valve at an Encana Corp. gas well that ruptured, a Denver-based company spokesperson told NGI Thursday.
October 9, 2014
Henry Who? Mexico Still Searching For a Hub
The prospect for substantial U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and additional pipeline supplies being exported to Mexico raises questions about pricing mechanisms and the role of the Henry Hub, but it is still too early to determine what role, if any, Henry will have south of the border, an energy consultant with ICF International said Tuesday in Los Angeles.
October 8, 2014