Concluding

The Oregon Department of Energy has issued a report concluding that it would be less expensive and less carbon-intensive to get additional future natural gas supplies via interstate pipelines from the Rocky Mountains rather than imported liquefied natural gas (LNG). Rockies supplies can be produced with significantly less life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) impact than gas from LNG imports, said the report ordered earlier in the year by Gov. Ted Kulongoski.

A district court judge has overturned a jury verdict that Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas underpaid $7.55 million in federal royalties on oil production, concluding that the plaintiff in the case, a former auditor of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), failed to meet one of the conditions necessary to bring a lawsuit on behalf of the government against the producer under the False Claims Act (FCA).

A district court judge Friday overturned a jury verdict that Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas underpaid $7.55 million in federal royalties on oil production, concluding that the plaintiff in the case, a former auditor of the Minerals Management Service (MMS), failed to meet one of the conditions necessary to bring a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit on behalf of the government against the producer.

On its concluding day of this year’s legislative session, a committee in the California lower house Assembly Thursday killed a proposal to require the California Energy Commission (CEC) to review and rank four existing proposals for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal along the state’s coast. Proponents wanted the legislation to counteract the federal permitting preemption established in last year’s federal Energy Policy Act (EPAct).

FERC has crossed the “threshold” of concluding that the existing Order 888 allows for undue discrimination in transmission service and that there is a need for the Commission to act, FERC Chairman Joseph Kelliher told an American Public Power Association (APPA) legislative rally held in Washington, DC, last Wednesday.

Ten conservation groups last Wednesday sued the Bush administration for extending 37 undeveloped oil and natural gas leases off the Central California coast after concluding that no significant environmental harm would result from the action.

Ten conservation groups on Wednesday sued the Bush administration for extending 37 undeveloped oil and natural gas leases off the Central California coast after concluding that no significant environmental harm would result from the action.

Concluding that the existing natural gas supply chain is “near the breaking point” despite abundant resources in the United States, the House task force on natural gas in a report last Tuesday placed much of the blame for restricted supplies on the federal government for its conflicting policies that promote gas consumption yet deny producers access to gas-rich federal lands.

Concluding that the current natural gas supply chain is “near the breaking point” despite abundant resources in the United States, the House task force on natural gas in a report Tuesday placed much of the blame for restricted supplies on the federal government for its conflicting policies that encourage gas consumption yet deny producers access to gas-rich federal lands.