Michigan

Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. and a drilling partner are packing up and moving operations out of two Pennsylvania counties after determining that the first natural gas wells drilled in Luzerne County, PA, “were unlikely to produce natural gas in commercial quantities.”

ANR said it has cut available capacity for the Muttonville Lateral in Michigan from 100,000 Dth/d to 40,000 Dth/d until further notice.

Southern California Gas did not extend a high-linepack OFO beyond Friday.

BreitBurn Energy Partners LP and Quicksilver Resources Inc. have completed the $1.45 billion sale of all of Quicksilver’s natural gas, oil and midstream assets in Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky to BreitBurn, they said Thursday. BreitBurn paid $750 million in cash and approximately 21.348 million common units of its stock.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has given the green light to BreitBurn Energy Partners LP’s plan to buy all of Quicksilver Resources Inc.’s natural gas properties in Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky for $750 million in cash and 21.35 million of BreitBurn’s common units. The transaction, which is targeted for closure on Nov. 1, is 94% weighted to gas, with a total value of about $1.45 billion.

BreitBurn Energy Partners LP is building its stake in onshore natural gas properties under an agreement to purchase all of Quicksilver Resources Inc.’s properties in Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky for $750 million in cash and 21.35 million of BreitBurn’s common units. The transaction, expected to close early next month, is 94% weighted to gas, with a total value of about $1.45 billion.

BreitBurn Energy Partners LP is building its stake in onshore natural gas properties under an agreement to purchase all of Quicksilver Resources Inc.’s properties in Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky for $750 million in cash and 21.35 million of Breitburn’s common units. The transaction, expected to close early next month, is 94% weighted to gas, with a total value of about $1.45 billion.

Cap Rock Holding Corp. last week agreed to acquire SEMCO Energy Inc., parent of utilities SEMCO Energy gas Co. in Michigan and ENSTAR Natural Gas Co. in Alaska, in an $867 million cash and debt deal.

A Michigan city pension fund that owns shares in NorthWestern Corp. last week filed a lawsuit in a South Dakota court, seeking to make a class action issue out of the utility company’s reluctance so far to accept public- or private-sector buyout offers. The City of Livonia Employees’ Retirement System filed the suit in a federal court.