Export

With shipper contracts expiring in 2015, Alliance Pipeline Ltd. plans to develop receipt and short-haul services that take advantage of the pipeline’s location near developing gas shale plays in British Columbia and North Dakota, Alliance said. The new offerings will complement the pipeline’s “bullet line” service from Western Canada to Chicago, as well as provide hub services such as the Natural Gas Exchange and the Alliance Chicago Exchange project.

An online petition calling on Quebec Premier Jean Charest to resign for not placing a moratorium on shale gas development in the province, among other things, had surpassed more than 224,000 signatures as of Monday afternoon.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved Empire Pipeline Inc.’s request to use its existing import facilities at the U.S.-Canadian border to export natural gas to Canada, noting that both countries are signatories to the North American Free Trade Agreement [CP10-136]. The 233-mile, 24-inch diameter pipeline said it has begun receiving requests for firm transportation service from primary receipt points in the U.S. to a delivery point at its interconnection with TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. at the U.S.-Canada border. Empire, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Co., said expanding production from the Marcellus Shale is driving gas to new markets (see NGI, Sept. 13).

A candidate for Alaska governor who favors an all-Alaska gas pipeline with export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over a larger pipeline to Lower 48 markets has petitioned Gov. Sean Parnell’s office for documents related to the open season for the Lower 48 Project proposed by TransCanada Corp.

A candidate for Alaska governor who favors an all-Alaska gas pipeline with export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) over a larger pipeline to Lower 48 markets has petitioned Gov. Sean Parnell’s office for documents related to the open season for the Lower 48 Project proposed by TransCanada Corp.

Capital spending on liquefied natural gas (LNG) is poised to reach new peaks between now and 2012 with $106 billion expected to be spent on export terminals, tankers and import terminals over the next five years, according to research by consultancy Douglas-Westwood Ltd. of the United Kingdom.

Growing wellhead deliverability and flat-to-intermittent regional natural gas export capacity continue to bedevil Rocky Mountain producers, but it remains to be seen whether the Rockies Express (REX) Pipeline will turn out to be the “basis savior” some expect, an energy consultant said last week.

Growing wellhead deliverability and flat-to-intermittent regional natural gas export capacity continue to bedevil Rocky Mountain producers, but it remains to be seen whether the Rockies Express (REX) Pipeline will turn out to be the “basis savior” some expect, said Pace Global Energy Services.

The amount of Canadian gas available for export to the United States will decline by about 4 Bcf/d over the next nine years, from 9.7 Bcf/d in 2006 to about 5.7 Bcf/d in 2015, according to Calgary-based Ziff Energy Group. And to a great extent gas consumption by Alberta oilsands producers can be blamed.