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Golar LNG Ltd. has contracted to build four 160,000-cubic meter liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers with Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd.

Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said Wednesday it has contracted with AT&T to build, operate and supply compressed natural gas (CNG) for the communication giant’s plan to deploy up to 8,000 CNG-powered fleet vehicles.

Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said Wednesday it has contracted with AT&T to build, operate and supply compressed natural gas (CNG) for the communication giant’s plan to deploy up to 8,000 CNG-powered fleet vehicles.

Cheyenne Plains (CP) said it has contracted for IT service from CIG “that will allow CP to raise the pressure on the west end of its pipeline, increasing operationally available system capacity, effectively serving as a partial short-term replacement for our disabled compression.” The agreement with CIG will provide transportation for shippers delivering to CP from CIG, WIC and Rockies Express, CP said. The service is expected to commence in mid-October subject to completion of necessary piping modifications on the CIG and CP systems. No additional nomination procedures will be required for shippers desiring to deliver gas to CP, the pipeline said. “Depending on the downstream pressures on the CP system, this transportation service should allow an increase in the Cheyenne Plains West (CPW) operationally available capacity to approximately 540 MMcf/d and the Cheyenne Plains East (CPE) operationally available capacity to approximately 590 MMcf/d. This effectively increases our post-incident [see Daily GPI, Sept. 18] CP operationally available capacity from 465 MMcf/d to 590 MMcf/d.”

CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Co. (CEGT), an indirect subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy Inc., has contracted to construct compression and pipeline facilities to serve a new power plant with up to 480 MW of capacity being built by Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), a subsidiary of American Electric Power, in Washington County, AR. The CEGT facilities will be constructed in eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. SWEPCO is constructing two simple-cycle natural gas-fired combustion turbines, with a combined capacity of 170 MW and scheduled for completion in July. Another two combustion turbines, with a combined capacity of 170 MW, are scheduled for completion in December. The facilities required to meet the demand will be built in two phases. Phase I, expected to be in service in the third quarter, will consist of 2,300 feet of 12-inch diameter pipe and a delivery meter station at the power plant. Phase II activities include the addition of a 15,000-hp mainline compressor station near Poteau, OK, along with 15.5 miles of 24-inch diameter pipeline looping of CEGT’s Line OM-1. CEGT expects to file an application for Phase II with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and anticipates an in-service date in the second quarter of 2009. Terms of the contracts are confidential.

CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Co. (CEGT), an indirect subsidiary of CenterPoint Energy Inc., has contracted to construct compression and pipeline facilities to serve a new power plant with up to 480 MW of capacity being built by Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), a subsidiary of American Electric Power, in Washington County, AR. The CEGT facilities will be constructed in eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas. SWEPCO is constructing two simple-cycle natural gas-fired combustion turbines, with a combined capacity of 170 MW and scheduled for completion in July. Another two combustion turbines, with a combined capacity of 170 MW, are scheduled for completion in December. The facilities required to meet the demand will be built in two phases. Phase I, expected to be in service in the third quarter, will consist of 2,300 feet of 12-inch diameter pipe and a delivery meter station at the power plant. Phase II activities include the addition of a 15,000-hp mainline compressor station near Poteau, OK, along with 15.5 miles of 24-inch diameter pipeline looping of CEGT’s Line OM-1. CEGT expects to file an application for Phase II with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and anticipates an in-service date in the second quarter of 2009. Terms of the contracts are confidential.

While seasonal spreads in natural gas prices have contracted, to be sure, it hasn’t hampered the business of at least one gas storage developer/operator, who also believes wider spreads will return, thanks in part to liquefied natural gas (LNG).

While seasonal spreads in natural gas prices have contracted, to be sure, it hasn’t hampered the business of at least one gas storage developer/operator, who also believes wider spreads will return, thanks in part to liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Northern Natural Gas said Friday afternoon it had contracted a repair crew and dive boat that were en route to a leak site (see Daily GPI, March 2) on the Northern-operated Matagorda Offshore Pipeline System offshore Texas. Pending any weather delays, Northern expected the dive boat to arrive at the site late Saturday evening and repairs to begin Sunday. It anticipates restoration of service to some of the affected platforms downstream of Matagorda 758 by the start of Tuesday’s gas day.