Filling

PG&E Corp. said Tuesday it has named DTE Energy Anthony Earley, 62, as its new chairman, CEO and president, filling a vacancy created last April when the former PG&E head retired abruptly as the company’s San Francisco-based combination utility was facing mounting public criticism for its handling of the San Bruno pipeline rupture and explosion.

Several western states, including Oregon, California and Arizona, are faced with filling vacant energy regulatory slots entering 2011.

Susan F. Clark was elected to the Sierra Pacific Resources board of directors, filling one of two vacancies. Clark is a partner in Tallahassee, FL-based law firm Radey Thomas Yon & Clark, which specializes in telecommunication law and energy regulation. During more than 20 years service with the Florida Public Service commission Clark was a commissioner for nine years and served as chairman in 1995-1996. She also served the regulatory commission as its general counsel.

While infusing new funds for filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and advancing nuclear, clean coal and renewable fuels, the Bush Administration made no apologies for cutting all oil and natural gas research and development dollars out of its fiscal 2008 energy budget request. Also dropped was funding for the office of a federal coordinator for the long-stalled Alaska natural gas pipeline project.

While infusing new funds for filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and advancing nuclear, clean coal and renewable fuels, the Bush Administration made no apologies for cutting all oil and natural gas research and development dollars out of its fiscal 2008 energy budget request. “This president has never been in favor of subsidies for the oil and gas industry,” Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman told a budget briefing Monday.

The drilling boom in the Gulf Coast and Midcontinent regions probably will end up stifling liquefied natural gas (LNG) import growth but won’t come close to filling up the plethora of proposed gas pipelines, according to a new study by New York City-based consulting firm PIRA Energy Group and El Paso-based Lippman Consulting Inc. (LCI).

The drilling boom in the Gulf Coast and Midcontinent regions probably will end up stifling liquefied natural gas (LNG) import growth but won’t come close to filling up the plethora of proposed gas pipelines, according to a new study by New York City-based consulting firm PIRA Energy Group and El Paso-based Lippman Consulting Inc. (LCI).

Filling U.S. natural gas storage to maximum working gas design capacity would be a lot like eating 19 slices of deep-dish pizza; although it’s theoretically possible, it’s probably not something you would want to even try.

Filling U.S. natural gas storage to maximum working gas design capacity would be a lot like eating 19 slices of deep-dish pizza; although it’s theoretically possible, it’s probably not something you would want to even try.