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ConocoPhillips and its consortium partners expect to submit regulatory applications this year for the $3 billion (C$4 billion) proposed Mackenzie Valley project, the company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday. The project, which has been anticipated for several years, would be Canada’s first Arctic natural gas pipeline.

ConocoPhillips and its consortium partners expect to submit regulatory applications this year for the $3 billion (C$4 billion) proposed Mackenzie Valley project, the company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday. The project, which has been anticipated for several years, would be Canada’s first Arctic natural gas pipeline.

Houston-based Cheniere Energy Inc. plans to submit permit applications for two proposed Gulf Coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities to FERC on Monday. The facilities, if approved, would be built in Sabine Pass, LA and Corpus Christi, TX.

A Poten & Partners subsidiary, Weaver’s Cove Energy, expects to file with FERC in November to build an LNG receiving terminal on a brownfield site near Fall River, MA, to connect with Algonquin Gas Transmission and also make liquid gas deliveries by truck to nearby peaking facilities.

A Poten & Partners subsidiary, Weaver’s Cove Energy, expects to file with FERC in November to build an LNG receiving terminal on a brownfield site near Fall River, MA, to connect with Algonquin Gas Transmission and also make liquid gas deliveries by truck to nearby peaking facilities.

The Minneapolis-based merchant power subsidiary of Xcel Energy filed its long anticipated voluntary petition for reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Several affiliates, including NRG Power Marketing and NRG Northeast Generating LLC, also filed for protection, but parent company Xcel was not pulled under.

Wyckoff Gas Storage Co. LLC, a subsidiary of Greyhawk Gas Storage Co., has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a certificate to operate a 6 Bcf working gas storage facility in western New York. The company expects to hold an open season for the high deliverability, multi-cycle (HDMC) facility within the next couple weeks for service beginning in spring 2004.

Wyckoff Gas Storage Co. LLC, a subsidiary of Greyhawk Gas Storage Co., has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a certificate to operate a 6 Bcf working gas storage facility in western New York. The company expects to hold an open season for the high deliverability, multi-cycle (HDMC) facility within the next couple weeks for service beginning in spring 2004.

Five former executives at NRG Energy late Friday afternoon filed an involuntary Chapter 11 petition against the Xcel Energy unit, but NRG said that despite the move, it intends to continue to conduct business as usual.