Lands

MoBay Storage Hub LLC, an affiliate of Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc., signed a gas storage lease with the State of Alabama that covers more than 24,000 acres of state-owned lands, clearing the way for construction of the MoBay Storage Hub to start this spring, the company said last Wednesday.

MoBay Storage Hub LLC, an affiliate of Falcon Gas Storage Co. Inc., signed a gas storage lease with the State of Alabama that covers more than 24,000 acres of state-owned lands, clearing the way for construction of the MoBay Storage Hub to start this spring, the company said Wednesday.

With the state’s governor saying natural gas needs to play a key energy role, the California State Lands Commission (CSLC), which in April dumped on a proposed offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, recently gave its approval to a proposed expansion of the North Baja Pipeline to enhance the state’s ability to receive some of the supplies starting next year at Sempra Energy’s Costa Azul LNG receiving terminal along the Pacific Coast of North Baja California, Mexico.

The Nova Scotian government gave EnCana Corp. the brush off late Thursday, telling the energy giant it does not want to pay any of the costs for a proposed pipeline to carry natural gas from EnCana’s on-and-off-again offshore Deep Panuke project. EnCana had offered the province the opportunity to take an ownership stake. The offer was required under Canadian law.

The lead state agency, the California Lands Commission, Tuesday released a revised draft environmental impact report (EIR) and set three hearings next month on Australian resources giant BHP Billiton’s proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal 22 miles off the Southern California coast from Oxnard, CA. Hearings will be held in three separate cities April 17-19.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced it will publish proposed new fees for oil and gas drilling and other permits for use of public lands in Tuesday’s Federal Register.

Nonprofit environmental group Campaign to Protect America’s Lands (CPAL) said last week that results from a survey of registered voters in New Mexico show that fewer than one in four, including less than half the registered Republicans, favor the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plan to permit oil and gas drilling in the Otero Mesa region, which includes two counties, Otero and Sierra, in southern New Mexico.

Nonprofit environmental group Campaign to Protect America’s Lands (CPAL) said Thursday that results from a survey of registered voters in New Mexico show that fewer than one in four, including less than half the registered Republicans, favor the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plan to permit oil and gas drilling in the Otero Mesa region, which includes two counties, Otero and Sierra, in southern New Mexico.

The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said that 91 parcels of federal land generated a total revenue of $464,222 through a competitive auction of oil and gas leases conducted on Sept. 25 in Springfield, VA.