Fits

BP plc’s Atlantis project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM), which suffered fits and starts before finally ramping up in 2007, is “presently not fit for service under normal engineering standards,” a lawyer for a former BP contractor — and now whistle-blower — said at a pretrial hearing in Houston Monday.

Preparing for operation after years of fits and starts, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has announced a nonbinding open season for shippers seeking firm capacity commencing as early as November 2008 on the company’s 182-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and the lower Hudson Valley.

Preparing for operation after years of fits and starts, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has announced a nonbinding open season for shippers seeking firm capacity commencing as early as November 2008 on the company’s 182-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and the lower Hudson Valley.

After years of fits and starts, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has begun construction of its 182-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and the lower Hudson Valley, the company said Friday.

After years of fits and starts, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has begun construction of its 182-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and the lower Hudson Valley, the company said Friday.

FERC Commissioner Nora Brownell last week made the case for why it would make sense for the Commission to avoid adopting a one-size-fits-all approach to the crafting of a policy on incentives designed to boost investments in the nation’s transmission infrastructure.

Both BP America Production Co. and affiliate BP Energy Co. said while they welcomed the construction of the Entrega Gas Pipeline to boost pipeline takeaway capacity in the Rocky Mountain region, they objected to Entrega’s proposal to impose a single set of transportation rates on all shippers regardless of the distance traveled on the pipeline.

Both BP America Production Co. and affiliate BP Energy Co. last week said while they welcomed the construction of the Entrega Gas Pipeline to boost pipeline takeaway capacity in the Rocky Mountain region, they objected to Entrega’s proposal to impose a single set of transportation rates on all shippers regardless of the distance traveled on the pipeline.

After various fits and starts surrounding the issue over a number of months, California regulators Thursday established an alternative demand stand-by charge, called a “peaking rate,” for Southern California Gas Co., which could open up the utility to “economic bypass” by interstate pipeline projects lined up and ready to go at the border. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) rejected the utility’s own proposal as “anti-competitive.”