Moving

The third quarter production of Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has not been affected by “recent operational challenges and the logistics of moving gas in northeast Pennsylvania,” the company said Friday.

The third quarter production of Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has not been affected by “recent operational challenges and the logistics of moving gas in northeast Pennsylvania,” the company said last Friday.

Shale drilling beyond North America may be moving at a snail’s pace but the opportunities for oilfield service operators overseas are “fantastic and phenomenal,” according to Halliburton Co. CEO Dave Lesar.

An environmental impact review on oil shale and tar sand plans in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming initiated earlier this year by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an “inefficient and unnecessary” exercise, according to one Shell Exploration and Production (E&P) Co. official.

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is moving ahead with considering a new 300 MW natural gas-fired peaking generation plant adjacent to an existing 600 MW baseload gas-fired plant in Otay Mesa, south of San Diego near the international border. Pio Pico Energy Center is indicative of a move away from the coastal power plant locations in the state and use of sea water for cooling, which is now being phased out. Pio Pico is a revised project on a new site following the withdrawal of an earlier project in the City of Chula Vista, which is losing an existing 600 MW gas-fired baseload plant along the coast due to a redevelopment by the city and Port of San Diego. The CEC will hold a workshop at the Chula Vista City Hall Wednesday to discuss the latest proposal to site a new gas-fired peaking plant adjacent to Calpine Corp.’s Otay Mesa Energy Center, which started commercial operations nearly two years ago under a 10-year tolling agreement with San Diego Gas and Electric Co.

DCP Midstream is moving ahead with the Sand Hills Pipeline to carry natural gas liquids (NGL) from the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale to markets along the Gulf Coast.

Even in what continues to be a weak economic recovery, Bellevue, WA-based Puget Sound Energy (PSE) said Monday it is moving ahead with an all-source request for proposals (RFP) for new long-term power supplies to come online over the 2012 to 2015 period. Natural gas-fired generation is very much in the mix of bids PSE is seeking, the utility told state regulators in seeking approval for the RFP.

The City Council of Auburn, NY, voted Thursday to stop accepting wastewater generated from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) at natural gas wells, ending more than a decade of the practice and eliminating a major source of revenue for the city.

The drillbit is moving from unconventional dry natural gas activity to wetter gas and crude, but the infrastructure has yet to catch up, increasing barriers to entry for some and giving existing operators a “natural edge,” an analyst with Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Inc. (TPH) said in new research on the midstream sector.