Consulting

A survey conducted by the consulting firm PwC indicates that oil and gas industry executives are confident that their companies’ information security practices will provide protection from cyber attacks, despite poor intelligence of how and when future attacks could be mounted.

A survey conducted by the consulting firm PwC indicates that oil and gas industry executives are confident that their companies’ information security practices will provide protection from cyber attacks, despite poor intelligence of how and when future attacks could be mounted.

According to Boehm, the sources are Arthur Berman of Labyrinth Consulting Services in Sugar Land, TX, and Deborah Rodgers, a full-time goat farmer and owner of Deborah’s Fort Worth Farmstead Goat Cheese.

Rick Smead, a director in Navigant Consulting Inc.’s Energy Practice, co-authored the firm’s 2008 North American Natural Gas Supply Assessment, which was considered a breakthrough in recognizing the potential of unconventional natural gas supplies. However, many of the two-year-old supply assumptions already need to be updated because of remarkable advancements in technology, he said Wednesday.

It’s a shale world and it’s only getting bigger, according to Ziff Energy Group’s natural gas consulting manager.

It’s a shale world and it’s only getting bigger, according to Ziff Energy Group’s natural gas consulting manager.

A global consulting firm tracking social investment practices assigned San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) with a triple-A (AAA) rating Thursday for the combination utility’s performance on social, environmental and strategic governance issues compared to peer companies in the utility industry. The announcement coincided with PG&E’s release of its 2007 report on its social responsibility track record.

FERC last Monday began consulting with Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) on its proposed Devers-to-Palo Verde 2 (DPV2) high-voltage transmission line, taking its first step under the agency’s new authority to consider a request to site interstate electric transmission facilities in National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors if state regulators have “withheld approval” on a project for more than a year.

Ben Hollins, head of European gas and power consulting for Wood Mackenzie, said it is not unusual for the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) to form a committee to look at pricing. “As such, a study of pricing is not in itself inconsistent with the stated remit of the GECF. Nonetheless it begs the question to what extent a gas OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) might be able to influence the future global gas market and its prices — a question which is addressed in our report.”