Competitors

Global trading exchange competitors Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Chicago-based CME Group saw very different Novembers as ICE recorded a 8.9% average daily volume (ADV) increase from November 2007, while CME posted a 29% drop when comparing the same two months.

Global trading exchange competitors Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) and Chicago-based CME Group saw very different Novembers as ICE recorded a 8.9% average daily volume (ADV) increase from November 2007, while CME posted a 29% drop when comparing the same two months.

Still well ahead of its competitors in the state, NorthernStar Natural Gas has taken recent action that will delay some of its site-specific preparation and operating permits as its awaits FERC’s determination on its proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on the Oregon side of the Columbia River near where the river meets the Pacific Ocean.

Still well ahead of its competitors in the state, NorthernStar Natural Gas has taken recent action that will delay some of its site-specific preparation and operating permits as its awaits FERC’s determination on its proposed Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on the Oregon side of the Columbia River near where the river meets the Pacific Ocean.

As the race to move Rocky Mountain natural gas from the Rockies Express Pipeline’s (REX) terminus in Ohio to the Northeast continues to add new entrants, competitors will have to deal with a quickly moving forward pipe proposal from REX itself. Last week, prior to REX announcing that it had completed a successful nonbinding open season for its Northeast Express Project, El Paso Corp.’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline and Equitable Resources Inc. threw their hats into the ring with plans to jointly build a pipeline project from the terminus of REX to serve Northeast gas markets.

As the race to move Rocky Mountain natural gas from the Rockies Express Pipeline’s (REX) terminus in Ohio to the Northeast continues to add new entrants, competitors will have to deal with a quickly moving forward pipe proposal from REX itself. The pipeline said Wednesday it has completed a successful nonbinding open season for the Northeast Express Project, a 375-mile extension of REX that would extend the pipeline’s route from Clarington, OH, and add capacity to receive volumes from Lebanon, OH, to the endpoint in Princeton, NJ.

The Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) may be the super highway for natural gas when it is completely ramped up, but pipeline competitors already are forecasting a gap between the ever-growing production in the Rocky Mountains and takeaway demand, which together will require another major pipe system within three or four years.

The Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) may be the super highway for natural gas when it is completely ramped up, but pipeline competitors already are forecasting a gap between the ever-growing production in the Rocky Mountains and takeaway demand, which together will require another major pipe system within three or four years.

Enron Corp., the energy trading company after which many competitors tried to model themselves, was being run by “swindlers,” namely former CEO Jeffrey Skilling and ex-CFO Andrew Fastow, a top-level Enron executive told House subcommittee members Thursday.