Endeavor

A story concerningAubrey McClendon’s latest foray into the onshore through entityAmerican Energy Partners LPpublished on Wednesday is said to include misinformation, according to a spokesman (seeDaily GPI,Aug. 21). McClendon leftChesapeake Energy Corp.on April 1. Later that month Chesapeake executivesHenry HoodandTom Pricealso departed, and a Chesapeake official said at the time they would be working with McClendon in his new endeavor (seeShale Daily,April 17). Price in fact told theThe Oklahomanthat McClendon had “kindly offered to provide me with an office, and I have accepted…Aubrey and I have worked really well together on trying to do things that benefit Oklahoma City. I think we can continue to do that and hopefully enhance the prosperity of the state as well.” Neither Hood nor Price are said to be part of the new endeavor, said the spokesman. Also, American Energy’s spokesman claimed that neither McClendon nor his associates own the headquarters in Oklahoma City, as state officials had indicated in April.

A trio of world-class oil majors — Chevron Corp., Statoil ASA and Repsol YPF — on Thursday launched an ambitious endeavor to jointly explore Atlantic Canada’s deepwater. Separately Chevron and Statoil, a newcomer to Canada’s offshore, also agreed to partner in a deepwater region of Canada’s Beaufort Sea.

A trio of world-class oil majors — Chevron Corp., Statoil SA and Repsol YPF — on Thursday launched an ambitious endeavor to jointly explore Atlantic Canada’s deepwater. Separately Chevron and Statoil, a newcomer to Canada’s offshore, also agreed to explore a deepwater region of Canada’s Beaufort Sea.

With one Commissioner referring to it as a “king-like” endeavor, FERC last Thursday issued certificates for three projects that will make up the westernmost end of Rockies Express Pipeline LLC’s proposed $4 billion 1,663-mile pipeline that would transport Rocky Mountain natural gas to Midwest and eastern markets.

With one Commissioner referring to it as a “king-like” endeavor, FERC Thursday issued certificates for three projects that will make up the westernmost end of Rockies Express Pipeline LLC’s proposed $4 billion 1,663-mile pipeline that would transport Rocky Mountain natural gas to Midwest and eastern markets.

Planning, developing and building natural gas pipelines over the last decade has become a difficult endeavor filled with the risk of numerous regulatory hurdles and barriers to entry, according to a panel of transmission experts last week at GasMart/Power 2001 in Tampa, FL.

Planning, developing and building natural gas pipelines over the last decade has become a difficult endeavor, filled with the risk of numerous regulatory hurdles and barriers to entry, according to a panel of transmission experts last week at GasMart/Power 2001 in Tampa, FL.