Football

Darrell Royal, the revered former head coach for the University of Texas football team, used to explain his team’s success by borrowing a line from a 1920s song, “You dance with the one that brung ya.” Ultra Petroleum Corp., which has stuck with natural gas while others have moved along, is discovering that gas can be one expensive date.

A utility proposal to bring natural gas service for the first time to a number of heating oil-dominated central Maine communities is turning into a bit of a football as a state legislative proposal bids to help facilitate financing for gas supply projects. Supporters contend that it will help boost the state’s economy and critics are leery of the state picking favorites among energy sources.

In another move to prevent its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project from becoming a political football kicked between Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and FERC, NorthernStar Natural Gas urged the federal regulators Feb. 20 to respond to the governor quickly on his concerns about LNG siting in Oregon generally, and particularly NorthernStar’s proposed Bradwood Landing terminal along the Columbia River. NorthernStar sent a four-page letter to FERC from its Washington, DC-based legal counsel Van Ness Feldman.

In another move to prevent its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) project from becoming a political football kicked between Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski and FERC, NorthernStar Natural Gas urged the federal regulators last Wednesday to respond to the governor quickly on his concerns about LNG siting in Oregon generally, and particularly NorthernStar’s proposed Bradwood Landing terminal along the Columbia River. NorthernStar sent a four-page letter to FERC from its Washington, DC-based legal counsel Van Ness Feldman.

Should the energy industry expect more mergers and acquisitions?Eric Mullins, a former Houston Oiler football player and nowmanaging director of Goldman Sachs, said he didn’t have to go outon “much of a limb” to answer that question. “Maybe I’ll just say’yes’ and sit down,” he told attendees of Arthur Andersen’s EnergySymposium in Houston yesterday.

While Congress played political football with draft electricrestructuring legislation, natural gas pipelines urged legislatorsto take a page from the history of natural gas deregulation andgive FERC enough authority to effectively oversee the nationalelectric grid.

While Congress played political football with draft electricrestructuring legislation, natural gas pipelines urged legislatorsto take a page from the history of natural gas deregulation andgive FERC enough authority to effectively oversee the nationalelectric grid.