Baja

Sempra Energy subsidiaries have clinched heads of agreements (HOA) with Total SA, Mitsui & Co. Ltd. and Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd. to take capacity from Phase 1 of the proposed Energia Costa Azul (ECA) natural gas export project in Baja California, Mexico.

A U.S. company has secured a long-term contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import project on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, a region isolated from the country’s main energy transmission systems.

About 200 MMcf/d of natural gas exports to Mexico could be interrupted starting Thursday because of a planned shutdown at North Baja Pipeline LLC’s import/export point at Ogilby, CA, natural gas analytics firm Genscape Inc. said Wednesday.

Much of the shortened holiday week was characterized by only modest shifts in natural gas forwards markets, but the action coming back from the extended holiday weekend was enough to send prices down an average of 23.5 cents between July 1 and July 6, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

Much of the shortened holiday week was characterized by only modest shifts in natural gas forwards markets, but the action coming back from the extended holiday weekend was enough to send prices down an average of 23.5 cents between July 1 and July 6, according to NGI’s Forward Look.

In apologizing to customers for unexpected reductions in capacity on the Baja Path over the holiday weekend (see the bulletin board for details), Pacific Gas and Electric’s California Gas Transmission (CGT) system said in addition to planned maintenance, it discovered an excessive amount of odorant in a section of Line 300B late May 25. Operations personnel have been working to isolate and purge the overodorized gas and expected to have this situation resolved Wednesday (June 1), CGT said.

Having failed last Friday to shut down the facility, the mayor of Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico, on Wednesday sought to negotiate tax revenues and a new gas transmission pipeline link with Sempra Energy’s Energia Costa Azul liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal along the Pacific Coast just north of the port city.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s lawyers were told Aug. 6 that a Mexican federal district court in North Baja California “unofficially” was notified that an original Ensenada judge was granted his recusal request due to “conflict of interest” in the ongoing legal battle between Sempra and a would-be owner of 220 acres adjacent to the Sempra Energia Costa Azul liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy’s lawyers were told last Friday that a Mexican federal district court in North Baja California “unofficially” was notified that an original Ensenada judge was granted his recusal request due to “conflict of interest” in the ongoing legal battle between Sempra and a would-be owner of 220 acres adjacent to the Sempra Energia Costa Azul liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal.