Developers

Unlike most of the other developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals along the Southern California coast, Australia-based Woodside Natural Gas has plenty of reserves and liquefaction capacity poised to target the most attractive markets in Asia and North America. As a result, it has gone to a two-vessel concept for its Ocean Way proposal that would inject new gas imports into California without building permanent storage and regasification facilities offshore or on land.

Unlike most of the other developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals along the Southern California coast, Australia-based Woodside Natural Gas has plenty of reserves and liquefaction capacity poised to target the most attractive markets in Asia and North America. As a result, it has gone to a two-vessel concept for its Ocean Way proposal that would inject new gas imports into California without building permanent storage and regasification facilities offshore or on land.

As the field of would-be West Coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal proponents has gotten more crowded, one of the early developers, Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp., has had to push back the initial terminal start date by nearly four years. Its current joint plans with subsidiaries of ConocoPhillips to open a terminal in Long Beach, CA harbor target 2011 for the first commercial operations, Mitsubishi’s COO for the project said Wednesday.

Outlining the previously reported capacity agreement with the developers of the proposed Rockies Express Pipeline, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) announced that its 10-year deal commits MMS to transport more than 18 Bcf of gas per year (or 50 MMcf/d) from the pipe’s origin in Wyoming.

Canada’s entry in the arctic natural gas pipeline race is still not out of the woods. Aboriginal consent, a key item for resource developers in the Northwest Territories, continues to elude the C$7 billion (US$5.6 billion) Mackenzie Gas Project.

After almost two years of study, a provincial committee has recommended offering Alberta’s budding coalbed methane developers only a limited financial incentive to grow faster. Instead of copying generous inducements which helped launch coal gas in the United States and that British Columbia has adopted, the Alberta proposal is a temporary grant for field research.

Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline announced Friday that it signed precedent agreements for about 1.5 Bcf/d of firm transportation capacity with the developers of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminals in Atlantic Canada.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is holding an open season to determine interest in a new pipeline project along the Gulf Coast that would transport regasified LNG to markets and to interconnections with other major pipelines, in particular its affiliate Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America. The open season continues until March 2.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is holding an open season to determine interest in a new pipeline project along the Gulf Coast that would transport regasified LNG to markets and to interconnections with other major pipelines, in particular its affiliate Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America. The open season continues until March 2.