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The Sid Richardson purchase includes 4,000 miles of natural gas and gas liquids pipe in the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico, about 450 MMcf/d of cryogenic processing capacity among six interconnected plants, 930 MMcf/d of high-pressure treating capacity and a gas liquids and gas marketing operation based in Houston and Fort Worth.

Chevron Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum announced a new deepwater discovery at their Big Foot prospect in Walker Ridge Block 29 about 225 miles south of New Orleans. The companies expect that the oil discovery also will provide associated natural gas production but no commercial estimates have been made available yet.

Faced with a fast growing residential/commercial area in the greater high desert Yucca Valley area about 100 miles east of Los Angeles, Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. is planning to increase its transmission pipeline capacity into the relatively remote area north of Palm Springs, a company official verified Tuesday. Large loads at the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base to the east and growing residential and commercial uses of gas in Yucca Valley prompted the plans.

El Paso Corp. proposed Tuesday to build the Continental Connector, a new system with more than 1,000 miles of up to 42-inch pipe to ship 1-2 Bcf/d of Rockies gas East by connecting six of its pipelines in the west, Colorado Interstate, WIC and Cheyenne Plains, with points on ANR Pipeline, Tennessee Gas Pipeline, and Southern Natural Gas. El Paso said the project could be placed in service as early as November 2008.

The cargo of a tanker truck reported to be carrying liquefied natural gas (LNG) caught fire on a stretch of Interstate Highway 80 about 30 miles east of Reno, NV, causing the highway to be shut in both directions and residents and businesses within a one-mile radius evacuated. A pipeline safety engineer from the Nevada Public Utilities Commission was headed to the scene early in the afternoon for a fire that broke out near a truck rest stop about 11 a.m. PDT.

Harrison County, Mississippi supervisors voted unanimously last Tuesday on a resolution opposing oil or gas exploration or drilling any closer than 12 nautical miles south of the barrier islands, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore just off the county’s coastline. The resolution will go on to the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA), which is drawing up plans for development of the state’s offshore resources in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Harrison County, Mississippi supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday on a resolution opposing oil or gas exploration or drilling any closer than 12 nautical miles south of the barrier islands, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore just off the county’s coastline. The resolution will go on to the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA), which is drawing up plans for development of the state’s offshore resources in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

Norwegian-based TORP Technology announced last week that it has completed financing for a $400 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to be located 50 miles offshore Dauphin Island, AL. TORP officials now plan to file regulatory documents in 4Q2005, with planned startup in early 2009.

Norwegian-based TORP Technology said Monday that it has completed financing for a $400 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal that would be located 50 miles offshore Dauphin Island, AL. TORP officials now plan to file regulatory documents in 4Q2005, with planned startup in early 2009.