Negotiating

The initial 90-day open season of TransCanada Corp.’s Alaska pipeline project has closed and the company’s TC Alaska unit and partner ExxonMobil Corp. are assessing and negotiating the issues associated with the bids received from potential shippers, the companies said.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy is thought to be negotiating with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to buy back RBS’s 51% interest in the two firms’ joint venture trading unit, RBS Sempra Commodities. Two sources in the financial and energy trading space told NGI Thursday that this would make sense for the U.S. energy holding company if it can get the right price.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy is thought to be negotiating with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to buy back RBS’s 51% interest in the two firms’ joint venture trading unit, RBS Sempra Commodities. Two sources in the financial and energy trading space told NGI Thursday that this would make sense for the U.S. energy holding company if it can get the right price.

San Diego-based Sempra Energy is thought to be negotiating with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to buy back RBS’s 51% interest in the two firms’ joint venture trading unit, RBS Sempra Commodities. Two sources in the financial and energy trading space told NGI Thursday that this would make sense for the U.S. energy holding company if it can get the right price.

The natural gas industry may have been absent from the negotiating table when the House drafted its landmark climate change legislation, but it and its supporters are expected to be front and center when the Senate takes up a companion bill this fall, Washington, DC, sources say.

The natural gas industry may have been absent from the negotiating table when the House drafted its landmark climate change legislation, but it and its supporters are expected to be front and center when the Senate takes up a companion bill this fall, Washington, DC, sources say.

Officials at Alaska’s Enstar Natural Gas Co. must go back to the negotiating table with producers ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil to hammer out gas pricing terms more favorable to consumers in the state’s Southcentral region, state regulators ruled.

Officials at Alaska’s Enstar Natural Gas Co. must go back to the negotiating table with producers ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil to hammer out gas pricing terms more favorable to consumers in the state’s Southcentral region, state regulators ruled.

Following Cheniere Energy’s recent announcement that it is negotiating a deal to outsource the marketing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at its Sabine Pass terminal, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Ratings Services said it has placed its ‘B’ corporate credit rating on LNG developer Cheniere Energy and its ‘BB’ senior secured rating on subsidiary Sabine Pass LNG LP on CreditWatch with negative implications.