Affirming

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, in affirming a lower court’s ruling, put its seal of approval on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2008 and 2000 records of decision (ROD) allowing more drilling in the Pinedale Anticline Project Area (PAPA) of western Wyoming.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, in affirming a lower court’s ruling, put its seal of approval on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2008 and 2000 records of decision (ROD) allowing more drilling in the Pinedale Anticline Project Area (PAPA) of western Wyoming.

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) has filed its record of decision (ROD) on a 2008 federal oil and natural gas lease sale in the Chukchi Sea offshore Alaska, affirming the sale to Shell Oil Co. over the objections of challengers.

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) filed its record of decision (ROD) on a 2008 federal oil and natural gas lease sale in the Chukchi Sea offshore Alaska, affirming the sale over the objections of environmentalist challengers.

While affirming the Iroquois Gas Transmission System LP’s credit ratings (“BBB+”) and positive outlook, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services noted it will keep an eye on the Northeast interstate natural gas pipeline’s shipper base and cash flow. If they waver S&P said it might consider changes in the ratings and outlook.

Along with affirming its previously announced new senior management team with CEO Steve Baum’s retirement next month, San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s board of directors last Wednesday also proposed changes in its corporate governance by terminating its shareholders’ rights plan and proposing to make directors subject to an annual vote.

FERC has denied a request for rehearing and stay of a July order that, by affirming an administrative law judge (ALJ) ruling, opened the door for Tennessee Gas Pipeline to build an interconnect to the Columbia Gulf Transmission-operated portion of a transportation system along the coast of Louisiana that the two pipelines jointly maintain.

Following last week’s split city council vote affirming negotiations, talks will get under way “soon” between proponents of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the Port of Long Beach, CA, and the city’s energy department, the COO for Mitsubishi’s U.S. Sound Energy Solutions (SES) subsidiary, Tom Giles, said during a brief interview Monday with NGI.

In what Standard & Poor’s (S&P) says will become more common among the large energy companies, Sempra Energy was the second firm subjected to an accounting analysis to adjust the company’s reported financial results to get what S&P considers a more accurate set of financial ratios to adjust or affirm companies’ true credit risk. In Sempra’s case, the ratings were unchanged, staying at “BBB+” and at the “A” level for its two major utilities.