A Nov. 1 target went by without a start on deliveries to thenortheastern United States by the new Maritimes & NortheastPipeline (M&NP), but it says there is no real delay and thetiming has nothing to do with a last-minute tangle with Indiansbefore the National Energy Board.
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Maritimes: Indian Dispute Won’t Delay Project Past Dec. 1
Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline said it’s confident aresolution to a dispute with the Mi’kmaq Indians in Nova Scotia canbe reached in time to avoid a delay in initial service past Dec. 1.
PG&E Gas Pursues Pacific Northwest, TX Power Markets
While scores of pipelines are jockeying to supply gas to newpower generators in the Northeast market, PG&E Gas Transmission— the 7th largest pipeline in the nation — is turning itsattention to the rapidly growing generation markets in the PacificNorthwest and Texas, where the competition from rival pipelines ismuch less fierce.
New York Gas Storage Site for Sale
Bath Petroleum Storage, Inc. (BPSI), a company operating in aprime Northeast salt cavern storage location, is up for sale.
Prime Gas Storage Site for Sale
Bath Petroleum Storage, Inc. (BPSI), a company operating in aprime Northeast salt cavern storage location, is up for sale.
Buy the Forecast; Sell the Weather. Never Worked Better
Even as temperatures were shattering records throughout much ofthe Northeast,sending electricity prices spiking near $1000/MWhTuesday, natural gas futures were hit with a wave of selling tokick off the week. Speculative fund traders, who have been longpositions for almost three months now, were prominent sellersearly. But trade and local selling was not far behind, sending theAugust contract to its lowest level since the middle of April. Theprompt month finished down 9.6 cents at $2.191, after carving out a$2.16 bottom. Estimated volume was a robust 124,967.
Tetco Proposes Independence Project Substitute
The battle over who will get to build new pipeline capacity tothe prized Northeast gas market has reached a feverish pitch, withsponsors dreaming up ways to knock out their competitors’ projects.ANR Pipeline and National Fuel Gas Supply Corp., sponsors of theproposed Independence Pipeline, recently proposed a plan that couldwipe out a large part of Columbia Gas Transmission’s MillenniumPipeline project. And Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) has joinedthe ranks, devising a proposal that could obviate the need forIndependence altogether and part of an associated project.
Coastal Buys Utah Midstream Assets
Complementing its integrated operations in Northeast Utah andwestern Colorado, Coastal Field Services, Coastal’s midstreamdivision, bought the Bluebell and Altonah gathering systems andprocessing plants located in the Duchesne and Uintah counties ofUtah. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Industry Briefs
The Coastal Corporation has announced that its Coastal Powersubsidiary will build a 265 MW gas-fired power plant northeast ofDenver. Fulton Cogeneration Associates, L.P., an affiliate ofCoastal Power, will own and operate the plant and has entered intoa power purchase agreement with Public Service Company of Coloradobeginning in May of 2000. Construction of the facility will beginthis summer near Brush, CO. Colorado Interstate Gas Company, also asubsidiary of The Coastal Corporation, will build a pipeline fromits Young and Fort Morgan natural gas storage fields to transportnatural gas to the plant.
Midwest Pipeline Picture Shaping Up as Vector Takes Checkered Flag
FERC sent one major Midwest-to-Northeast pipeline project backto the drawing board last week but gave another competing project afinal green light. The $447 million Vector Pipeline emergedvictorious, receiving FERC’s final approval and a presidentialpermit in a draft order, while the $400 million TriState Pipelinewas told it must redesign the pipeline-lease portion of itsproposal to get FERC’s rubber stamp.