Boat

An official with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) said a recent media report that the commission was poised to rake in millions of dollars from a five-year deal to sell lake water for use in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) was exaggerated.

An official with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) said a recent media report that the commission was poised to rake in millions of dollars from a five-year deal to sell lake water for use in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) was exaggerated.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has taken steps to lease the rights to drill for natural gas in the 43,000 acres of waterways that run through the Marcellus Shale region and to grant licenses for access to water.

Thanks to Lower 48 shale gas supply growth, it’s too late for a pipeline to carry Alaska North Slope gas to market — but it may be able to catch a boat out of the frozen tundra to hotter markets in Asia, Credit Suisse analyst Teri Viswanath said in a note last Tuesday.

Thanks to Lower 48 shale gas supply growth, it’s too late for a pipeline to carry Alaska North Slope gas to market — but it may be able to catch a boat out of the frozen tundra to hotter markets in Asia, Credit Suisse analyst Teri Viswanath said in a note Tuesday.

Law enforcement officers and biologists with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) said this week they will begin conducting field inspections of active drilling sites for Marcellus Shale gas wells beginning in December.

A tug boat and two barges apparently struck a natural gas pipeline in Louisiana Thursday, killing two people and critically injuring at least two others. Three other people were confirmed missing by state police. The accident occurred near Gulfport Energy Corp.’s West Cote Blanche Bay production facility, located near Baldwin, LA.

Northern Natural Gas said late Wednesday afternoon that due to weather conditions and dive boat availability, for the time being it is not anticipating the return to service of any platforms downstream of Matagorda 758 on the Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System (MOPS), which Northern operates. As of Tuesday Northern had hoped to restore operations at several MOPs platforms sometime Thursday (see Daily GPI, March 8).

Consultants at Massachusetts-based Energy Security Analysis Inc. (ESAI) said last week that they believe many industry analysts and the large number of new financial players in the gas futures market are underestimating the impact of rising liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports and could be in for quite a surprise near the end of the storage injection season.