Complement

Price divergence in Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s Zone 4 in northeastern Pennsylvania is one of those things that gets worse before it gets better.

Producers in northeastern Pennsylvania will get a respite from the region’s pipeline capacity pinch — but not for long — according to Bentek Energy LLC.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has created an oilfield services unit to house its growing business and to complement its massive U.S. drilling program. A former Boots & Coots executive was named CEO.

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has created an oilfield services unit to house its growing business and to complement its massive U.S. drilling program. A former Boots & Coots executive was named CEO.

With shipper contracts expiring in 2015, Alliance Pipeline Ltd. said Friday it will develop receipt and short-haul services to complement its “bullet line” service from Western Canada to Chicago, as well as provide hub services such as the Natural Gas Exchange and the Alliance Chicago Exchange project.

Houston explorer Sheridan Production Partners LLC has raised $1.8 billion of new equity commitments that it plans to use to complement its portfolio of assets in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. Sheridan Production Partners II, the second private offering of limited partner interests, was oversubscribed and reached its hard cap, company officials said. Since its formation in 2006 by Sheridan Management and Warburg Pincus, the partnership said it has raised more than $3 billion in equity through private placements of its two investment vehicles (see NGI, Oct. 5, 2009; Aug. 13, 2007).

As the federal government moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, FERC should recognize the critical role of natural gas to provide baseload generation and complement variable energy resources (VER), such as wind and solar energy, because of its ability to quickly and reliably ramp up to meet electric customers’ demand when wind or sun energy is disrupted, said the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA).

As the federal government moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, FERC should recognize the critical role of natural gas to provide baseload generation and complement variable energy resources (VER), such as wind and solar energy, because of its ability to quickly and reliably ramp up to meet electric customers’ demand when wind or sun energy is disrupted, said the Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA).

A new contender has stepped forward to help complement the ever dwindling conventional natural gas supplies in the main Canadian producing province of Alberta — coal gasification, on a large scale.