Erupted

A flash fire erupted early Wednesday morning, injuring four contract workers doing maintenance work at a ConocoPhillips natural gas processing plant in Fremont County in Wyoming. The plant had been idle since Aug. 1 for planned maintenance, officials at the scene told local news media.

A new front has erupted in conflicts over adding facilities and covering costs across the Canadian pipeline grid — this time over transportation of emerging shale gas supplies in northern British Columbia (BC). Salvos fired before the National Energy Board (NEB) include a warning from former chairman Roland Priddle, an architect of the country’s avowedly deregulated regime of fostering a market-driven and competitive industry.

A new front has erupted in conflicts over adding facilities and covering costs across the Canadian pipeline grid — this time over transportation of emerging shale gas supplies in northern British Columbia (BC). Salvos fired before the National Energy Board (NEB) include a warning from its former chairman, Roland Priddle, an architect of the country’s avowedly deregulated regime of fostering a market-driven and competitive industry.

After 34 years of peaceful co-existence, friction has erupted between EnCana Corp., Canada’s top producer, and Ottawa’s Department of National Defense (DND) over a windswept Alberta plain that doubles as a prolific natural gas field and a military training range.

After 34 years of peaceful co-existence, friction has erupted between EnCana Corp., Canada’s top producer, and Ottawa’s Department of National Defense (DND) over a windswept Alberta plain that doubles as a prolific natural gas field and a military training range.

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.

Receiving support from current events in the petroleum futures sector, September natural gas futures on Monday erupted higher, reaching levels not seen since the January 2005 contract reached an $8.23 high on Nov. 29, 2004.

Fireworks erupted Tuesday on the Senate floor between Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, over the issue of changing the 20-year-old moratorium on drilling on the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

It was all about the numbers for the last — and most spirited — witness panel before the Senate Energy Committee conference on natural gas last week. Debate erupted over both the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) weekly storage reports and the volatility and high prices of the natural gas futures market