Alabama

FERC Monday approved the joint application of Gulf South Pipeline and Petal Gas Storage to build and lease capacity for the Southeast Market Expansion Project to increase gas deliveries primarily to the Southeast.

Birmingham, AL-based Energen Corp. said this week it has signed an agreement with an undisclosed buyer to sell its Black Warrior Basin coalbed methane (CBM) assets in Alabama for $160 million plus standard closing adjustments. The company expects the sale to close in early October with an effective date of July 1, 2013.

FERC has issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) that would allow Gulf South Pipeline to build the Southeast Market Expansion Project to increase gas deliveries primarily to the Southeast.

Natural gas and oil companies concerned that fringe protesters will succeed in delaying or canceling projects shouldn’t be, said the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy. New technology eventually will be embraced, he said, but it will take time.

Dozens of companies cast 407 bids totaling $1.6 billion for 320 blocks covering more than 1.7 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227, held in New Orleans last Wednesday.

Dozens of companies cast 407 bids totaling $1.6 billion for 320 blocks covering more than 1.7 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227, held in New Orleans Wednesday.

The Interior Department is offering 38.6 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in the Central Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Lease Sale 227 to be held in March. The sale, which could potentially result in almost 4 Tcf of natural gas production and nearly 1 billion bbl of oil production. The sale is the second in the Obama administration’s 2012-2017 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) program and would be the first of five Central GOM lease sales to be held under the program (see NGI, July 2, 2012).

The Interior Department said Thursday it will offer 38.6 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for oil and natural gas exploration and development in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227 to be held in March. The sale could potentially result in almost 4 Tcf of natural gas production and nearly one billion bbl of oil production, according to the agency.

Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) is preparing a request for proposals (RFP) to construct a two-segment pipeline to carry natural gas from Transco’s Station 85 in western Alabama to FPL’s Martin County Power Plant in southern Florida. If constructed, the pipeline would reduce Florida’s reliance on gas from the Gulf of Mexico.