A report in NGI’s Daily Gas Price Index Wednesday on local opposition to the environmental review of BHP Billiton’s proposed offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California mistakenly linked the Australian company to a competing offshore LNG proposal in the same general area. The other project in the area, the Clearwater Port, which is backed by NorthernStar Natural Gas Inc., proposes to transform an idle offshore oil rig into an LNG terminal. The local opposition pertains to BHP Billiton’s proposed terminal, Cabrillo Port, which would be a floating terminal. In addition, among references to proposed air emission mitigation measures proposed by BHP, NGI erroneously reported that the project would involve the conversion of existing polluting diesel-powered tugboats to natural gas. According to a Houston-based BHP Billiton spokesperson, the company has proposed changing out those tugboats to run on state-of-the-art clean diesel engines — not natural gas-fired ones. NGI regrets the errors.

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