Beaten

Alaskan exporters have beaten Canadian rivals at scoring an international marketing coup: the first sale to China of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from North America. ConocoPhillips Alaska and Marathon Oil Co. scored the breakthrough in May, according to an international gas trade scorecard kept by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Alaskan exporters have beaten Canadian rivals at scoring an international marketing coup: the first sale to China of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from North America.

Sponsors of Canada’s arctic natural gas project have beaten off a challenge from within the industry by winning a cost-saving decision from the National Energy Board. The NEB, in a ruling on a hotly-contested move by newcomers to the northern Canadian gas scene, refused to declare the Mackenzie Gas Project’s 190-kilometer (120-mile) Mackenzie Delta gathering grid a common carrier subject to open-access and tariff regulation.

Sponsors of Canada’s arctic natural gas project have beaten off a challenge from within the industry by winning a cost-saving decision from the National Energy Board. The NEB, in a ruling on a hotly-contested move by newcomers to the northern Canadian gas scene, refused to declare the Mackenzie Gas Project’s 190-kilometre (120-mile) Mackenzie Delta gathering grid a common carrier subject to open-access and tariff regulation.

Off the beaten path of western energy and commerce superhighways, Elko, NV, is being left in the dust by natural gas pipeline and power plant developers since the wholesale market and many of its major practitioners suffered the retrenchment of the past 18 months.

Canada’s National Energy Board has beaten off a challenge to “light-handed” pipeline regulation, rejecting an attempt by the British Columbia Ministry of Energy to assert provincial control and revive traditional cost-of-service regulation over even a minor branch of Westcoast Energy’s B.C. gas grid.