Executive

With federal approval to reduce well spacing in Wyoming’s Jonah field to 10 acres from 40 acres, an EnCana Corp. executive said the Calgary-based producer plans to significantly boost its natural gas volumes there.

With federal approval to reduce well spacing in Wyoming’s Jonah field to 10 acres from 40 acres, an EnCana Corp. executive said the Calgary-based producer plans to significantly boost its natural gas volumes there.

The Royal Dutch/Shell Group on Thursday proposed tightening executive compensation policies to end the use of stock option grants. The plan, which must be approved by shareholders, would make the awarding of share bonuses to its directors dependent on the company’s performance.

A San Diego-based spokesperson for Sempra Energy Thursday qualified remarks the company’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) executive made at the Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ CERAWeek conference in Houston a day earlier regarding the company’s possible pursuit of LNG supplies from Alaska. Sempra has no specific plans regarding Alaskan LNG, other than listing it as one of its possible future sources of gas in the post-2010 time frame, the spokesperson said.

A San Diego-based spokesperson for Sempra Energy Thursday qualified remarks the company’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) executive made at the Cambridge Energy Research Associates’ CERAWeek conference in Houston a day earlier regarding the company’s possible pursuit of LNG supplies from Alaska. Sempra has no specific plans regarding Alaskan LNG, other than listing it as one of its possible future sources of gas in the post-2010 time frame, the spokesperson said.

Richard J. Sharples, former president of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. who has chaired the Natural Gas Supply Association and the Natural Gas Council, has been named executive director of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, a Washington, DC-based group representing LNG facility owners, operators, transporters and natural gas users.

Richard J. Sharples, former president of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. who has chaired the Natural Gas Supply Association and the Natural Gas Council, has been named executive director of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, a Washington, DC-based group representing LNG facility owners, operators, transporters and natural gas users.

Richard J. Sharples, former president of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. who has chaired the Natural Gas Supply Association and the Natural Gas Council, has been named executive director of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, a Washington, DC-based group representing LNG facility owners, operators, transporters and natural gas users.

Equitable Resources top executive last Wednesday called on local distribution companies (LDC) to think about “rational consolidation” as a response to increasing compliance costs, growing deliverability constraints and high natural gas commodity prices.