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Ingleside Energy Center LLC, an affiliate of Occidental Petroleum Corp., has filed an application seeking approval to build and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Ingleside Energy Center LLC, an affiliate of Occidental Petroleum Corp., has filed an application seeking approval to build and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Ingleside Energy Center LLC, an affiliate of Occidental Petroleum Corp., has filed an application seeking approval to build and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast.

With energy trading an established profit center and its South American utility assets on the sales block, Sempra Energy banks its immediate future on its two large California utilities and its looming liquefied natural gas (LNG) and gas storage business, Sempra’s CEO Steve Baum told analysts last week. Baum indicated Sempra is poised to grow no matter what happens in California’s still undecided energy market debate.

With energy trading an established profit center and its South American utility assets on the sales block, Sempra Energy banks its immediate future on its two large California utilities and its looming liquefied natural gas (LNG)/storage business, Sempra’s CEO Steve Baum told analysts Wednesday. Baum indicated Sempra is poised to grow no matter what happens in California’s still undecided energy market debate.

Natural gas continues to be at the heart of California’s future energy policy, and the key areas of focus are on pipeline capacity and liquefied natural gas (LNG), according to the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) top gas official, David Maul. As gas demand continues to increase in the nation’s most populous state, natural gas imports are at the 85% level.

While the folks in Boston will remember the bone-chilling cold in mid-January that produced new gas demand records, this winter (December-February) will go down in history as being pretty average overall across the entire nation, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company (MEHC) Chairman and CEO David Sokol joined Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski in Fairbanks Thursday in announcing a preliminary filing with the state for favorable tax treatment to build the Alaska portion of a 4.5 Bcf/d gas pipeline to deliver North Slope natural gas to markets in the Midwest.

FERC Chairman Pat Wood on Wednesday said that the construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities is one of several “silver bullets” that could go a long way in addressing long-term natural gas supply issues facing the United States, adding that another solution lies with Alaskan natural gas.