Bogged

Bogged down for more than two years at FERC on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import application, the backers of Oregon LNG have decided to join the growing list of proposed North American LNG export projects and turn their site at the mouth of the Columbia River into a bidirectional facility that concentrates of exporting western Canadian gas supplies to lucrative Asian market. They hope to have all their major federal filings made within weeks, Project Manager Peter Hansen told NGI on Tuesday.

FERC Commissioner Suedeen Kelly, whose confirmation for a second term on the Commission has been bogged down in Capitol Hill politics, was tossed a life preserver when House and Senate lawmakers decided to return after the elections for a lame duck session in mid-November.

FERC Commissioner Suedeen Kelly, whose confirmation for a second term on the Commission has been bogged down in Capitol Hill politics, was tossed a life preserver when House and Senate lawmakers decided to return after the elections for a lame duck session in mid-November.

Stakeholder processes have their place in certain situations, but adopting such an approach to the crafting of clear, enforceable and mandatory electric reliability rules could prove to be extremely counterproductive, FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell told an audience of state utility regulatory commissioners last Monday.

Updating its progress on the Sunrise-Mayel No. 2H natural gas well near Delano, CA, Tri-Valley Corp. reported that it is expanding operations to the upper Shafter-Wasco zone of the McClure Shale formation because the current zone has a significant amount of clay content that can swell and block gas delivery.