Fuels

The Gas Technology Institute (GTI), in collaboration with the Department of Energy and Brookhaven National Labs, successfully completed testing of a new small-scale natural gas liquefier that could be used to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) for vehicles, utility peak shaving applications, remote gas recovery, and liquefaction of renewable resources such as digester or landfill gas.

Dallas-based Energy Transfer Co., which is in the process of expanding its Texas gas pipeline system, and TXU Fuel Co. have agreed to jointly market natural gas gathering and transportation services to producers in East Texas for redelivery to markets at the Katy Hub, near Houston. The agreement includes firm pipeline capacity for up to 150 MMcf/d with expansion capability up to 250 MMcf/d.

Dallas-based Energy Transfer Co., which is in the process of expanding its Texas gas pipeline system, and TXU Fuel Co. have agreed to jointly market natural gas gathering and transportation services to producers in East Texas for redelivery to markets at the Katy Hub, near Houston. The agreement includes firm pipeline capacity for up to 150 MMcf/d with expansion capability up to 250 MMcf/d.

A U.S. district judge has upheld an arbitration award in a natural gas monopoly lawsuit against Duke Energy Fuels LLP and Duke Energy Field Services Inc. (DEFS), ruling that Duke illegally maintained its monopoly power in the gas processing market in Panola County, TX. The ruling rejected Duke’s attempt to vacate an earlier award to provide a gas processing contract on competitive terms to American Central Eastern Texas Gas Co. LLP and American Central Gas Cos. Inc.

The New England Council and the New England Governors’Conference will present “Winter Fuels Outlook: A National andRegional Perspective” in Boston today, offering insight fromindustry, academic and government officials about the comingmonths. Massachusetts Gov. A. Paul Cellucci, who also chairs theNew England Governors’ Conference, will speak, as well as James T.Brett, CEO, New England Council; Roger Cooper, American GasAssociation; John Felmy, American Petroleum Institute; and MarkRodekohr, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department ofEnergy. The conference has been called in response to a recentprediction by the DOE that with a “normal” heating season, naturalgas prices likely will increase by as much as 50% this winter.Similar predictions have been made about the cost of heating oil.To learn more about today’s conference, contact David Graves of RDWGroup Inc. at (401) 521-2700, extension 106.

Baltimore Gas & Electric expects to see a 65% reduction innitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions this summer as a result of a new gasreburn system installed on two of its coal-fired electricgeneration boilers and the Gas Research Institute is taking credit.

The energy industry has begun the “last days of the age of oil,”with a cast of cleaner fuels waiting to take center stage,according to ARCO CEO Mike R. Bowlin.

The energy industry has begun the “last days of the age of oil,”with a cast of cleaner fuels waiting to take center stage,according to ARCO CEO Mike R. Bowlin.

Despite a disappointing storage report and continuedabove-normal temperatures across the country, natural gas futuresbubbled higher yesterday as technical traders found good value inprices near the bottom end of the recent trading range. And byadvancing 6.2 cents to settle at $1.837, the March contract notonly washed clean Wednesday’s declines but also positioned itselfback in the middle of the $1.725-925 trading range. Estimatedvolume was a somewhat lackluster 61,716 contracts.