Collecting

GMX Resources Inc. (GMXR) said it has branched out from its Haynesville/Bossier natural gas-directed properties, collecting about 67,724 net acres within the core horizontal oil development areas of the Bakken/Sanish-Three Forks Formation in the Williston Basin and the Niobrara Formation in the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin.

BP plc has removed the cap that was collecting some of the oil gushing from its busted Macondo well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said Wednesday.

The apparatus collecting oil and natural gas spewing from BP plc’s blown Macondo well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) prevented 11,100 bbl of oil from flowing into the GOM on Sunday, according to press reports.

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has finished collecting witness testimony about the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project after 11 months of roving arctic hearings, but the regulatory marathon is far from over for the northern pipeline and production proposal.

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has finished collecting witness testimony about the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project after 11 months of roving arctic hearings, but the regulatory marathon is far from over for the northern pipeline and production proposal.

The new year will open in Canada’s chief natural gas-producing jurisdiction with its residents collecting a double bonus just for living in Alberta thanks to 2005 gas royalties of C$9 billion, more than double the amount projected. The funds will be dispersed to citizens despite a survey showing a majority would rather the government kept the money and spent it on services.

The main thing the Energy Information Administration (EIA) can do to improve its weekly storage survey, according to two veteran natural gas associations, is to improve its procedures for collecting and vetting the data it receives from companies, so that after-the-fact revisions will be unnecessary. The suggestions were filed Monday in response to EIA’s call for comments on changing its procedures for announcing revisions to the weekly storage number (see Daily GPI, Jan. 10).

The Department of Transportation’s Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), which has come under attack for failing to collect penalties for major pipeline safety violations, reported Tuesday it settled with Shell Pipeline Co. LP this month for $250,000 in connection with the 1999 blast on Olympic Pipe Line Co. that killed three persons.

With El Paso hot on its heels with a new offshore Atlantic pipeline proposal, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline (Maritimes) is fast collecting market requests for expansion capacity. It said last week it received nominations for 1.7 Bcf/d of new transportation capacity on the Canadian portion of its pipeline system and 1.3 Bcf/d on the U.S. portion in an open season for its proposed $380 million Phase IV expansion project.