Deployment

Although they deferred action until next month, California regulators Thursday spent considerable time discussing the deployment of advanced natural gas utility metering systems and the fate of a gas-fired generation plant in Northern California that the state’s grid operator claims is essential to reliability. Advocates for the smart gas meters contend that they are essential for upgrades to pipeline system safety.

The Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA) is seeking requests for proposals (RFP) for its Small Producer Program and its Unconventional Resources Program.

Unconventional gas supplies around the world, particularly those from shale basins, “may hold the key to expanding the long-term role of gas in the global energy mix,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report released Monday.

Encana Corp.’s latest quarterly profits took it on the chin because of low natural gas prices, but the Calgary producer is responding with a realignment by transferring proven gas shale technology to liquids plays, advertising for partners to share costs in gassy northeast British Columbia (BC), and quietly acquiring an oily leasehold in Alberta’s Duvernay Shale.

In the midst of a global climate change strategy among policymakers, the demand for fossil fuels is surging, which in turn is impacting the deployment of clean energy technologies, according to a report released Wednesday at the second Clean Energy Ministerial in Abu Dhabi.

Calgary-based Sea NG Corp. said last week that it has formed an alliance with Marubeni Corp. and Teekay Shipping Corp. for the worldwide commercial deployment of Sea NG’s Coselle system for transporting compressed natural gas (CNG) by ship.

Calgary-based Sea NG Corp. said Tuesday that it has formed an alliance with Marubeni Corp. and Teekay Shipping Corp. for the worldwide commercial deployment of Sea NG’s Coselle system for transporting compressed natural gas (CNG) by ship.