Alaskan exporters have beaten Canadian rivals at scoring an international marketing coup: the first sale to China of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from North America. ConocoPhillips Alaska and Marathon Oil Co. scored the breakthrough in May, according to an international gas trade scorecard kept by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Kenai Terminal’s One-Off China Deal Beat Kitimat
Alaskan exporters have beaten Canadian rivals at scoring an international marketing coup: the first sale to China of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from North America.
Cross-Border Investment No Longer an Issue
It took three decades, but an American natural gas producer has finally scored a coup that shows the walls of Canadian economic nationalism have crumbled.
Cross-Border Investment No Longer an Issue
It took three decades, but an American natural gas producer has finally scored a coup that shows the walls of Canadian economic nationalism have crumbled.
High Desert Power Plant Keeping Gas Supply Options Open
Kern River Gas Transmission appears to have pulled off a coup in the competition to serve new merchant electric generation loads in California’s frenetic race to build new in-state power plants in its plans to construct a 32-mile, 24-inch-diameter pipeline extension directly to the 750-MW High Desert Power Plant now under construction in the open spaces about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
TransCanada Drops Tax Change; Awaits Regulatory Report
An attempt to score a quick tax-cut coup has been quietly abandoned by TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., which beat a retreat from a public airing of its political agenda in a potentially lengthy regulatory case. The company said it would hold off action on the case pending the report of a federal-provincial task force which is considering changes in the overall pipeline regulatory regime.
TransCanada Drops Tax Change; Awaits Regulatory Report
An attempt to score a quick tax-cut coup has been quietly abandoned by TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., which beat a retreat from a public airing of its political agenda in a potentially lengthy regulatory case. The company said it would hold off action on the case pending the report of a federal-provincial task force which is considering changes in the overall pipeline regulatory regime.
NEB, TransCanada Working on Tax Cuts
An attempt to score a quick tax-cut coup is stretching out into a federal case for TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., with governments that stand to lose the money being offered a chance to put up a fight. The National Energy Board has put off deciding even whether it has to approve the action until TransCanada explains itself much more fully. At the same time, the NEB is working on a procedure for collecting reactions by the provincial governments which stand to lose money as a result of the scheme. All have been officially informed by the board.
TransCanada Tax Plan Has NEB Scrambling
An attempt to score a quick tax coup by TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. set off a flurry of activity among legal and regulatory experts before the National Energy Board. Savings of C$8 million (US$5.3 million) per year off continuing taxes — plus a reduction of C$75 million (US$50 million) off deferred tax liabilities — are projected by the company if it can carry out its plan.
TransCanada Tax Plan Has NEB Scrambling
An attempt to score a quick tax coup by TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. has set off a flurry of activity among legal and regulatory experts before the National Energy Board. Savings of C$8 million (US$5.3 million) per year off continuing taxes — plus a reduction of C$75 million (US$50 million) off deferred tax liabilities — are projected by the company if it can carry out its plan.