Assessing

President Obama’s fiscal 2013 budgets for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Interior (DOI) propose funding directed at assessing the impact of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of shale.

CenterPoint Energy Field Services LLC (CEFS) has begun assessing routing for a proposed gas gathering and processing system in the Mississippi Lime of north-central Oklahoma and south-central Kansas.

A comprehensive review of hydraulic fracturing practices in natural gas wells in the Marcellus, Barnett and Haynesville shales for the first time is to independently assess alleged groundwater contamination and seismic events, as well as the scope and effectiveness of gas patch regulations, according to the University of Texas at Austin (UT).

After assessing public fear of an Arctic repetition of the Gulf of Mexico drilling disaster, the National Energy Board (NEB) is circulating a reminder that northern Canada has a different regulatory regime than the southern United States.

After assessing public fear of an Arctic repetition of the Gulf of Mexico drilling disaster, the National Energy Board (NEB) is circulating a reminder that northern Canada has a different regulatory regime than the southern United States.

As national experts associated with the federal investigation and/or the gas pipeline industry continue assessing the aftermath, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) spent most of Tuesday trying to put in perspective a wide range of misinformation and speculation circulated in news reports concerning the gas transmission pipeline explosion and fire in San Bruno last Thursday (see Daily GPI, Sept. 15; Sept. 13).

The initial 90-day open season of TransCanada Corp.’s Alaska pipeline project has closed and the company’s TC Alaska unit and partner ExxonMobil Corp. are assessing and negotiating the issues associated with the bids received from potential shippers, the companies said.

Australian producer BHP Billiton has begun assessing how to repair its Neptune tension leg platform (TLP) in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) after discovering “structural anomalies” last week.

Having locked up reserves and pre-pay natural gas deals in the past two years, the infrastructure financing arm for a dozen Southern California municipal utilities is assessing its member utilities to determine if their tanks are full, or they still want to buy some peace of mind in terms of future fuel supplies for generating electricity in the southern half of the state. The assessment will come the first half of next year.