Challenge

CPUC Files Challenge to FERC’s LNG Jurisdictional Ruling

Noting that it recognizes liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a viable option that eventually could serve parts of the state’s strongly gas-dependent energy market, the California Public Utilities Commission late last Friday filed a request for rehearing of FERC’s March 24 ruling asserting exclusive jurisdiction over a proposed LNG receiving terminal in Long Beach Harbor.

April 27, 2004

Petro-Canada Looks to LNG to Hedge Field Decline

Describing operations in picked-over natural gas fields at home as a case of “managing decline,” Canada’s seventh-ranked producer has set out to expand in international liquefied natural gas development in order to maintain and increase sales to the United States.

March 15, 2004

Court Rejects Producer Challenge of Order Approving Dominion Storage Expansion

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, last week rejected a small producer’s petition for review of a FERC order that permitted a neighboring natural gas pipeline operator to expand its underground storage facility onto the producer’s property, effectively stripping it of its interest in the land.

January 19, 2004

Court Rejects Producer Challenge of Order Approving Dominion Storage Expansion

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC, rejected a small producer’s petition for review of a FERC order that permitted a neighboring natural gas pipeline operator to expand its underground storage facility onto the producer’s property, effectively taking away its interest in the land.

January 14, 2004

Energy Workforce Brain Drain Threatens Future, Experts Say

Energy is the “biggest single challenge for the next few decades,” but because fewer graduates are entering the field, the next generation needs to be inspired with a sense of mission to “save the world,” a Nobel Prize winning scientist said Tuesday during a Global Energy Management Institute (GEMI) forum at the University of Houston.

October 27, 2003

Energy Workforce Brain Drain Threatens Future, Experts Say

Energy is the “biggest single challenge for the next few decades,” but because fewer graduates are entering the field, the next generation needs to be inspired with a sense of mission to “save the world,” a Nobel Prize winning scientist said Tuesday during a Global Energy Management Institute (GEMI) forum at the University of Houston.

October 22, 2003

Customer Confidence Still Lacking, Gas Experts Find

North America’s apparent dwindling natural gas reserves pose a long-term challenge, but continued price volatility, contractual uncertainty and growing political pressure for regulators to “do something” also have to be addressed to restore confidence in the marketplace, an industry panel concluded Thursday.

September 29, 2003

Customer Confidence Still Lacking, Gas Experts Find

North America’s apparent dwindling natural gas reserves pose a long-term challenge, but continued price volatility, contractual uncertainty and growing political pressure for regulators to “do something” also have to be addressed to restore confidence in the marketplace, an industry panel concluded Thursday.

September 26, 2003

Producers Challenge Tennessee’s Proposal to Hike ‘Action Alert’ Penalties

Natural gas producers last week called on FERC to reject a Tennessee Gas Pipeline proposal that they said would more than triple penalties for a certain class of shippers who violates “Action Alert” operational flow orders (OFOs) issued by the pipeline.

September 1, 2003

Producers Challenge Tennessee’s Proposal to Hike ‘Action Alert’ Penalties

Natural gas producers have called on FERC to reject a Tennessee Gas Pipeline proposal that they said would more than triple the penalties for certain shippers who violate “Action Alert” operational flow orders (OFOs) issued by the pipeline.

August 27, 2003