Dispute

The proposed Islander East Pipeline, which has been held up in an ongoing legal dispute with the state of Connecticut, won a key victory in the U.S. District Court of New Haven on March 23, but the battle is far from over.

The proposed Islander East Pipeline, which has been held up in an ongoing legal dispute with the state of Connecticut, won a key victory in the U.S. District Court of New Haven last Friday, but the battle is far from over.

FERC last Monday approved in part an uncontested settlement that seeks to resolve the long-running dispute over rates and expansions on joint pipeline facilities owned by Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC and Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (PNGTS) in the Northeast.

FERC Monday approved in part an uncontested settlement that seeks to resolve the long-running dispute over rates and expansions on joint pipeline facilities owned by Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline LLC and Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (PNGTS) in the Northeast.

A dispute has erupted at FERC between Atmos Energy and Equitrans — two companies that are seeking to build new natural gas pipelines to ease the transportation constraint in eastern Kentucky that has forced producers to shut in their gas.

A dispute over the local economic benefit of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal at the Port of Long Beach has stalled negotiations between Sound Energy Solutions (Mitsubishi, ConocoPhillips) and the City of Long Beach. The city and SES are scheduled to meet Monday, and following those discussions city energy department head Chris Garner will give an oral report to the city council at its meeting Tuesday night, Garner told Daily GPI Friday.

Dispute over the local economic benefit of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal at the Port of Long Beach has stalled negotiations between Sound Energy Solutions (Mitsubishi, ConocoPhillips) and the City of Long Beach.

The Alberta production industry conceded defeat in the dispute over sour gas production around population centers. Compton Petroleum Corp. put an inconclusive finish to a six-year struggle to overcome local fear and political resistance by abandoning a hotly-contested proposal for new sour gas drilling on the southeastern boundary of the Canadian gas capital of Calgary.

California regulators and FERC have quietly resolved their nearly 20-month long dispute over who has “exclusive jurisdiction” over a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal for the Port of Long Beach, CA.