Ahead

Although it is not likely to subside in the months ahead, concern among state officials regarding proposed federal rules on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) is creating a lot of posturing from both political and legal standpoints. North Dakota is in the middle of the messy states’ rights public debate.

Williams took decisive action to build its estimable U.S midstream operations last week ahead of its spinoff of the exploration and production (E&P) unit after entering negotiations to buy a Marcellus Shale system.

FERC last Tuesday gave Perryville Gas Storage LLC the go-ahead to expand its proposed salt dome storage facility and associated facilities, which are under construction in the Crowville Salt Dome in northeast Louisiana.

FERC Tuesday gave Perryville Gas Storage LLC the go-ahead to expand its proposed salt dome storage facility and associated facilities, which are under construction in the Crowville Salt Dome in northeast Louisiana.

Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. pushed ahead in three states with new natural gas fueling infrastructure. As part of an ongoing partnership, Clean Energy is spreading the use of compressed natural gas (CNG), operating and maintaining 14 fueling stations in upstate New York to support the 450-vehicle fleet of utility operator National Grid. In Connecticut, Clean Energy opened a station in West Haven at the headquarters of Metro Taxi, Connecticut’s largest full-service taxicab company. By the end of this year the taxi operator expects to have 110 CNG cabs in its fleet. And in Illinois, Clean Energy is working with Peoria Disposal Co., the city’s residential waste and recycling hauler, to build another CNG commercial fueling station in the city of Peoria. The station will serve as headquarters for 12 new CNG-powered trucks operated by the waste hauling firm.

Looking ahead over the next decade the natural gas industry can be characterized as having excess supplies of the commodity and infrastructure that will be searching frantically for added demand, an industry strategist told the LDC Gas Forum: Rockies & West meeting in Los Angeles Tuesday.

Looking ahead over the next decade the natural gas industry can be characterized as having excess supplies of the commodity and infrastructure that will be searching frantically for added demand, an industry strategist told the LDC Gas Forum: Rockies & West meeting in Los Angeles Tuesday.

With oil prices falling and natural gas prices still persistently low, oilfield services companies are facing a potential downturn in the months ahead, but it won’t be like the pullback in late 2008 and early 2009, according to energy analysts.

With oil prices falling and natural gas prices still persistently low, oilfield services companies are facing a potential downturn in the months ahead, but it won’t be like the pullback in late 2008 and early 2009, according to energy analysts.