After nearly a year’s delay, California water quality officials last Tuesday released draft rules for substantially restricting the use of seawater cooling at electric generation plants, carrying potential adverse impacts on the numerous natural gas-fired power plants and two nuclear generating stations lining the state’s coast. The move has caused consternation in the state energy industry and among energy officials since coastal plants account for 40% of the state’s generating capacity.
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Colorado, Feds Agree on Overlapping Drilling Strategy
Colorado regulators last week denied an energy industry request to delay implementing the state’s new drilling rules on federal land. The rules take effect Wednesday (July 1).
June 29, 2009
Colorado, Feds Agree on Overlapping Drilling Strategy
Colorado regulators on Wednesday denied an energy industry request to delay the July 1 implementation of the state’s new drilling rules on federal land.
June 26, 2009
Producer Pulls Back, Waiting for Mackenzie Pipeline
Calgary-based producer MGM Energy Corp. has struck an agreement with Chevron Canada Ltd. and BP Canada to restructure a farmout agreement, allowing it to delay drilling and seismic activity due to repeated holdups in progress on the Mackenzie Gas Project, MGM said last Tuesday.
May 11, 2009
Mackenzie Pipeline Delays Prompt Producer Pullback
Calgary-based producer MGM Energy Corp. has struck an agreement with Chevron Canada Ltd. and BP Canada to restructure a farmout agreement, allowing it to delay drilling and seismic activity due to repeated holdups in progress on the Mackenzie Gas Project, MGM said Tuesday.
May 6, 2009
Shoulder Season Sluggishness, Weak Futures Help Talk Cash Points Down
Moving in one-day delay lock-step with front month natural gas futures, cash market traders took their cue from the 18.8-cent drop in the May futures contract on Monday as almost every single cash point average recorded a decline on Tuesday.
April 22, 2009
FERC Grants In-Service Delay for Cameron LNG Project
FERC Tuesday granted a request of Sempra Energy’s Cameron LNG LLC for a seven-month delay to complete and place into service its liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal that is under construction near Hackberry, LA.
April 16, 2009
Mackenzie Valley Pipe Coming No Time Soon
A decision on whether to move forward with the long-proposed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) has suffered yet another delay, with Canadian regulators admitting Friday that they will not complete a report on the natural gas project for another year.
December 8, 2008
Deepwater Neptune Platform Begins Oil, Gas Production
After a delay of more than six months due to “structural anomalies” in the hull’s pontoons, BHP Billiton said early last week that oil and natural gas production has finally commenced from the $1.2 billion Neptune development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
July 14, 2008
Deepwater Neptune Platform Begins Oil, Gas Production
After a delay of more than six months due to “structural anomalies” in the hull’s pontoons, BHP Billiton said Monday that oil and natural gas production has finally commenced from the $1.2 billion Neptune development in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
July 8, 2008
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