Industrials

In an effort to continue to accommodate producers’ current production and future drilling plans, Dallas-based Crosstex Energy LP recently completed a significant capacity expansion at its Gregory Processing Plant north of Corpus Christi, TX. The company noted that with natural gas volumes coming into the system at record levels and significant new volumes on the horizon, the plant expansion was necessary.

In an effort to continue to accommodate producers’ current production and future drilling plans, Dallas-based Crosstex Energy LP recently completed a significant capacity expansion at its Gregory Processing Plant north of Corpus Christi, TX. The company noted that with natural gas volumes coming into the system at record levels and significant new volumes on the horizon, the plant expansion was necessary.

The Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) urged President Bush last week to “declare war on high natural gas prices” and invoke his emergency executive power to “bring about the short-term regulatory changes needed to reduce the threat of natural gas shortages and prevent sustained high price levels that are dismantling the nation’s manufacturing base.”

In preparation for an emergency summit later this week of the National Petroleum Council (NPC) on natural gas issues, the Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) sent Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham a list of short- and medium-term recommendations on how to deal with the “natural gas crisis that is dismantling the nation’s manufacturing base.”

The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) has taken issue with a number of recent decisions that it said indicate FERC is intent on establishing “generic” creditworthiness tariff provisions for natural gas pipelines. But industrial gas customers endorsed the Commission rulings, saying they took a balanced approach to settling the dispute between pipes and shippers over creditworthy requirements and “will pave the way” for the development of standards.

The nation’s largest businesses, industrials and commercial companies with multiple locations and a recognized national brand, plan to drastically cut the number of natural gas and power suppliers that they deal with by between 65% and 93% as part of a move to streamline their supply chain, according to a survey by RKS Research & Consulting.

The nation’s largest businesses, industrials and commercial companies with multiple locations and a recognized national brand, plan to drastically cut the number of natural gas and power suppliers that they deal with by between 65% and 93% as part of a move to streamline their supply chain, according to a survey by RKS Research & Consulting.

Kimball Resources Inc. announced that it will be hosting an online bidding event beginning June 11 and running through June 18, including Requests for Quotations (RFQ) from DaimlerChrysler Corp., General Electric Aircraft Engines, Detroit Diesel and Ford Motor Co., which will entail approximately 26 separate RFQs for approximately 45 Bcf of gas on an annualized basis throughout North America. The term requested is for one year beginning July 1.

In an $88.1 million switch, California regulators last weekdecided to reallocate the bulk of Southern California Gas Co.’s$161.8 million in 1997 step-down charges paid to El Paso NaturalGas and Transwestern interstate pipelines serving southernCalifornia from the mass regulated consumers to large industrial(noncore) customers. SoCalGas maintains that the buy-out eventuallywill save its customers between $320 and $525 million.