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Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) is preparing a request for proposals (RFP) to construct a two-segment pipeline to carry natural gas from Transco’s Station 85 in western Alabama to FPL’s Martin County Power Plant in southern Florida. If constructed, the pipeline would reduce Florida’s reliance on gas from the Gulf of Mexico.

By 2025 natural gas is expected to overtake coal as the second most used fuel worldwide and North America will have transitioned to become a net energy exporter, while by 2040 global energy demand will have increased by almost 35% from 2010 levels, according to ExxonMobil Corp.’s Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040, which wasreleased Tuesday.

Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) is preparing a request for proposals (RFP) for construction of a two-segment pipeline to carry natural gas from Transco’s Station 85 in western Alabama to FPL’s Martin County Power Plant in southern Florida. If constructed, the pipeline would reduce Florida’s reliance on gas from the Gulf of Mexico.

The Federal Reserve Board (FRB) said activity in the energy industry was a mixed bag and mentioned shale only once — but in a positive light — in the latest edition of the “Beige Book,” a report published eight times a year with data provided by the 12 Federal Reserve Districts.

The Bakken Shale may be booming, but Oneok Partners LP’s recent open season for the proposed Bakken Crude Express Pipeline was a bust, and the project has been scrapped, the partnership said Tuesday.

Oneok Partners LP is holding an open season through Nov. 20 for its Bakken Crude Express Pipeline, a proposed 1,300-mile pipeline with capacity to transport 200,000 b/d of light-sweet crude oil from multiple points in the Williston Basin’s Bakken Shale in North Dakota and Montana to the crude oil market hub in Cushing, OK (see Shale Daily, April 10). Construction is expected to begin in early 2014 and be completed by mid-2015. For information, visit the project website or contact Lisa Nishimuta at (918) 588-7730, lisa.nishimuta@oneok.com; or Tim King at (918) 732-1339, tim.king@oneok.com.

Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC’s (KMIGT) proposal to sell a 432-mile segment of its Pony Express natural gas pipeline to an affiliate (Kinder Morgan Pony Express Pipeline LLC) for the purpose of converting it to transport crude oil from the Bakken and Denver-Julesburg/Niobrara shales has received a mixed reaction at FERC.

The Obama administration last week gave a unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc the green light to begin “limited” drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.

The Obama administration has given a unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc the green light to begin “limited” drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday.