Orleans

Federal prosecutors in New Orleans have charged a former Helmerich & Payne Inc. (H&P) drilling manager for making false statements last year to the Department of Interior’s Office of Inspector General regarding a key safety device on a Gulf of Mexico drilling rig.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has vacated FERC orders requiring major intrastate pipelines to post operational information on their websites, saying the agency had exceeded the scope of its authority.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has vacated a FERC order requiring major intrastate pipelines to post operational information on their websites, saying the agency had exceeded the scope of its authority.

Gulf South has made a couple of small changes in the scheduling of meter outages during in-line inspection pigging on Index 287 in the New Orleans area that began Tuesday and will continue through Aug. 25 (see Daily GPI, July 26). See the bulletin board for details.

New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. said Friday its subsidiaries in Mississippi and Arkansas have agreed to purchase two combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plants from divisions of Houston-based KGen Power Corp. The company also said it had completed its purchase of a third CCGT facility in Louisiana from Acadia Power Partners LLC.

BP America Inc. President Lamar McKay last week told an audience of financial analysts in New Orleans that his career began in the Crescent City. While he said it was a pleasure to be back for the Howard Weil Energy Conference, McKay emphasized that neither he nor BP had forgotten how Louisiana’s shores were fouled last summer by oil from the company’s blown-out Macondo well.

Schlumberger Ltd. CEO Andrew Gould last week repeated an old adage and added something new to it, telling an industry audience in New Orleans, “if you want to find oil, you have to drill. And if you want to produce unconventional gases or oils, it is even truer.”

Schlumberger Ltd. CEO Andrew Gould repeated an old adage and added something new to it on Monday, telling an industry audience in New Orleans, “if you want to find oil, you have to drill. And if you want to produce unconventional gases or oils, it is even truer.”

The U.S. Coast Guard responded Wednesday to a rig fire in Bayou Perot, about 20 miles south of New Orleans in inland waters. Three people were reported injured on the rig, which was working on an inactive natural gas well.