Arkansas

GE Energy Financial Services and its joint venture partner Alinda Capital Partners LLC plan to sell their Colorado-based multi-state natural gas utility distribution operations, which they acquired from Kinder Morgan and others in 2007 (see Daily GPI, April 9, 2007).

Colette D. Honorable’s nomination to become a commissioner at FERC received bipartisan support during a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Thursday, and members said they hoped to complete the process before the congressional session ends early next month.

Flattening gas production from the Fayetteville Shale and other pipeline infrastructure in the region has prompted Ozark Gas Transmission LLC to repurpose some Arkansas gas pipeline facilities for refined products service.

Wyoming has hired a new oil/natural gas supervisor, Grant Black, a 30-year geology veteran who will assume his new position May 1. The state has been without a permanent supervisor at the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC) since long-time incumbent Tom Doll resigned last year after a run-in with Gov. Matt Mead (see Shale Daily, June 18, 2012). Department veteran Bob King has filled in on an interim basis. Once the oil/gas supervisor in Arkansas (1999-2004), Black holds geology degrees from the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University.

Warmer-than-average temperatures are expected this winter in an enormous area stretching from Arkansas west through Arizona and north as far as the Canadian border, as well as the northern two-thirds of Alaska, according to forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Warmer-than-average temperatures are expected this winter in an enormous area stretching from Arkansas west through Arizona and north as far as the Canadian border, as well as the northern two-thirds of Alaska, according to forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

A bipartisan group of 44 U.S. representatives from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas wants the Department of Energy (DOE) to expedite approval of applications to export liquefied natural gas (LNG), according to a letter sent to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu last Tuesday.

BHP Billiton Ltd.’s recent announcement of a $2.8B charge for the diminished value of its dry gas Fayetteville Shale assets (see Shale Daily, Aug. 7) wasn’t the only bad shale-related news to come from the Australian company. Its Petrohawk Energy Corp. unit has been turning in sour numbers as well.

A bipartisan group of 44 U.S. representatives from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas want the Department of Energy (DOE) to expedite approval of applications to export liquefied natural gas (LNG), they said in a letter sent to U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu Tuesday.