Negotiations

Dallas-based Atmos Energy Corp. said Wednesday it is in negotiations with a potential buyer for its 25 Bcf Fort Necessity Storage Project in Louisiana — though “market conditions are not favorable” — and the company intends to sharpen its focus on its pipeline business.

Cheniere Energy Inc. last Wednesday said its marketing subsidiary was in advanced negotiations to reach an outsourcing deal with a major North American natural gas marketing firm to manage the throughput of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the downstream gas market for LNG cargoes delivered for Cheniere Marketing’s account at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, LA.

Cheniere Energy Inc. said Wednesday its marketing subsidiary is in advanced negotiations to reach an outsourcing deal with a major North American natural gas marketing firm to manage the throughput of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the downstream gas market for LNG cargoes delivered for Cheniere Marketing’s account at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, LA.

Quietly closing the books on about six years of regulatory proceedings and stakeholder negotiations, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) without discussion Thursday approved a program for trading firm capacity rights on Southern California Gas Co.’s transmission system serving the southern half of the state. It addition, the CPUC revised some terms on open season local transmission commitments and expansions, along with rejecting a protest by a coalition of Southern California electric generators.

Quietly closing the books on about six years of regulatory proceedings and stakeholder negotiations, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) without discussion Thursday approved a program for trading firm capacity rights on Southern California Gas Co.’s transmission system serving the southern half of the state. It addition, the CPUC revised some terms on open season local transmission commitments and expansions, along with rejecting a protest by a coalition of Southern California electric generators.

After a round of negotiations and proposed amendments during the state legislature’s first week back from its summer recess last week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “million solar roofs” proposal (SB 1) and several other major energy proposals face a critical test this Wednesday in the state lower house Assembly Appropriations Committee. What form the proposals will take, and who is supporting them, was still unknown last Friday.

Following last week’s split city council vote affirming negotiations, talks will get under way “soon” between proponents of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the Port of Long Beach, CA, and the city’s energy department, the COO for Mitsubishi’s U.S. Sound Energy Solutions (SES) subsidiary, Tom Giles, said during a brief interview Monday with NGI.

Alaska Gov. Frank H. Murkowski said the state has reviewed and accepted TransCanada Corp.’s application to negotiate a contract to build a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope under the state’s Stranded Gas Development Act.

Alaska Gov. Frank H. Murkowski said the state has reviewed and accepted TransCanada Corp.’s application to negotiate a contract to build a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope under the state’s Stranded Gas Development Act.