Cooperating

Energy commodity prices aren’t cooperating in any arena at the moment, but ConocoPhillips is confident that diverting its natural gas rigs to more liquids targets in North America is the right path forward, CEO Ryan Lance said Wednesday.

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official told a Senate panel earlier this week that the agency is committed to cooperating with states to oversee the practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracking).

El Paso Corp.’s Ruby Pipeline Project on Friday was issued a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) by FERC and cooperating agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).

El Paso Corp.’s Ruby Pipeline Project on Friday was issued a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) by FERC and cooperating agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).

Natural gas is going to eclipse coal to become the second biggest fuel source after oil, and even though prices aren’t cooperating, ExxonMobil Corp. has no plans to slow its North American gas projects, an executive said last week.

Capital expenditures (capex) may have been cut and commodity prices aren’t cooperating, but production at some of the largest U.S.-based independents grew in 2Q2009 from the year-ago period and sequentially from the first three months of this year, according to separate analyses.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) said Wednesday it is cooperating with federal and state investigators a week after a tragic Christmas Eve residential distribution pipeline explosion that killed one person and critically injured two others while destroying a home and badly damaging two others in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova, CA. Local news media coverage quoted officials as criticizing the San Francisco-based utility for not being forthcoming with all of its records related to the hours leading up to the blast.

The staffs of FERC and a number of cooperating agencies Friday gave the final environmental go-ahead for Transwestern Pipeline’s proposed expansion to provide natural gas to the fast-growing Phoenix, AZ, area.

The staffs of FERC and a number of cooperating agencies Friday gave the final environmental go-ahead for Transwestern Pipeline’s proposed expansion to provide natural gas to the fast-growing Phoenix, AZ, area.