Holes

A bill that would ban permits for underground activities near salt domes, caverns or sink holes where moderate or catastrophic disasters have occurred in the past is advancing in the Louisiana State Legislature, despite opposition from the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association (LOGA).

A bill that would ban permits for underground activities near salt domes, caverns or sink holes where moderate or catastrophic disasters have occurred in the past is advancing in the Louisiana State Legislature, despite opposition from the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association (LOGA).

Natural gas industry representatives were granted early access to New York’s preliminary unconventional drilling regulations up to six weeks before the rules were made public, the public health advocate Environmental Working Group (EWG) claimed on Thursday, citing documents obtained under a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.

Southwestern Energy Co. has proven itself in the Fayetteville Shale and is now successfully poking holes in the Marcellus. However, it hasn’t been as adept at getting utility gas buyers to put pen to long-term supply contracts.

Gas producers who’ve traveled around the country poking holes in the ground know that the flavor of what they get varies from basin to basin; some gas is wetter, some has a higher heat content, etc. Over the years since the manufactured gas industry evolved into the natural gas industry, consumers — residential, industrial, process, power generation — and their equipment have grown accustomed to the flavor of gas most prevalent in their particular region. One industry expert described this as an “accident of history.”

Gas producers who’ve traveled around the country poking holes in the ground know that the flavor of what they get varies from basin to basin; some gas is wetter, some has a higher heat content, etc. Over the years since the manufactured gas industry evolved into the natural gas industry, consumers — residential, industrial, process, power generation — and their equipment have grown accustomed to the flavor of gas most prevalent in their particular region. One industry expert described this as an “accident of history.”

Every year Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf producers drill deeper holes to produce less gas from reserves that deplete faster. And then Mother Nature gives them a whupping (or several) during hurricane season.

Unsuccessful exploratory drilling in Alaska and the deepwater Gulf of Mexico have increased the 2002 net losses for ConocoPhillips by $18 million, the company said Monday.

ANR Pipeline unloaded an arsenal at the Guardian Pipelineproject yesterday in a protest and request for dismissal filed withFERC. If Guardian is built, it would be a bypass of ANR, resultingin 650 MDth/d of firm transportation capacity being turned back tothe Coastal subsidiary. That turnback capacity would mean a loss of$54 million in annual revenue, ANR said, of which $26 million couldbe avoided if Wisconsin Gas accepted a competing proposal presentedby ANR. ANR is requesting it be allowed to charge Wisconsin Gas anexit fee if Guardian is approved.