The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) began bringing up its external web site and e-mail systems in stages last Wednesday after a federal court in Washington, DC, gave the agency the green light to re-establish Internet connections and resume operations. The MMS said it expects to have its web page fully restored and updated by the first part of this week.
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North Baja Pipeline Awaits Environmental Hurdle on U.S. Portion
A long-time dream of bringing natural gas to energy-poor North Baja in Mexico’s burgeoning industrial and population centers along the U.S. border faces one last environmental hurdle on the U.S. side that backers are optimistic will be cleared still this month with the release of an environmental impact statement (EIS) from federal regulators. Without that hurdle being cleared, however, an already tight timetable and other environmental concerns related to the timing of the pipeline’s construction schedule might prevent initial supplies from flowing this coming summer.
North Baja Pipeline Awaits Environmental Hurdle on U.S. Portion
A long-time dream of bringing natural gas to energy-poor North Baja in Mexico’s burgeoning industrial and population centers along the U.S. border faces one last environmental hurdle on the U.S. side that backers are optimistic will be cleared this month with the release of an environmental impact statement (EIS) from federal regulators. Without that hurdle being cleared, however, an already tight timetable and other environmental concerns related to the timing of the pipeline’s construction schedule might prevent initial supplies from flowing this coming summer.
Calpine Goes Shopping for Turbines, Completes Encal Merger
Calpine announced it will purchase 35 model 7FB and 11 model 7FA gas-fired turbines from GE Power Systems, bringing its total order currently to 203 turbines, which when operated in a combined-cycle application represents 50,000 MW of baseload capacity.
Calpine Goes Shopping for Turbines, Completes Encal Merger
Calpine announced it will purchase 35 model 7FB and 11 model 7FA gas-fired turbines from GE Power Systems, bringing its total order currently to 203 turbines, which when operated in a combined-cycle application represents 50,000 MW of baseload capacity.
Prices Up Strongly Except in CA, But May Be Peaking
Weather that either was already bringing snow or was expected todo so soon in several regions, accompanied by some initial screensupport, pushed the cash market sharply higher Thursday at nearlyall points. Only the PG&E citygate and Southern Californiaborder registered drops amid overall gains of about 50 cents ormore. Many of the larger increases were clustered in the snowyRockies/Pacific Northwest.
Wyoming Utility May Have ‘Dark’ New Year
Customers of Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power could be bringing inthe New Year in the dark if FERC doesn’t step in and order and theutility’s power supplier to keep the lights on past the bewitchinghour of midnight.
ExxonMobil Plans to Increase Production & Technology
Bringing oil and gas giants Exxon and Mobil Corp. together lastyear has gone more smoothly than management anticipated, pushingearnings to record levels, and management said last week it willuse that extra money for new projects, more research and moretechnology to improve the bottom line in the years to come.
ExxonMobil Plans to Increase Production & Technology
Bringing oil and gas giants Exxon and Mobil Corp. together lastyear has gone more smoothly than management anticipated, pushingearnings to record levels, and management said yesterday it usethat extra money for new projects, more research and moretechnology that will improve the bottom line in the years to come.
Columbia Shareholders Endorse NiSource Merger
Shareholders of Columbia Energy Group Friday duplicated theperformance of NiSource Inc. shareholders a day earlier,overwhelmingly approving the merger of the two companies, and bringingit a step closer to reality. (See Daily GPI, June 2)