Partnership

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has joined the partnership of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Alberta Energy Company Ltd. in an exploration venture on more than three million acres of the foothills region. The three have already begun work in the first North Slope exploration plan focused on natural gas recovery, an area with reserves of 35 Tcf.

BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has joined the partnership ofAnadarko Petroleum Corp. and Alberta Energy Company Ltd. in anexploration venture on more than three million acres of thefoothills region. The three have already begun work in the firstNorth Slope exploration plan focused on natural gas recovery, anarea with reserves of 35 Tcf.

Through a new partnership with Alliant Energy IndustrialServices, the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency, representing 10municipal utilities in South Carolina, has taken its next step toprepare its members and customers for a competitive electricmarketplace.

Columbia Energy Group’s subsidiary Cove Point LNG Ltd.partnership said Friday it had completed its open season for firmLNG tanker discharging service at its terminal on the Marylandcoast.

Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater announced Friday thatthe Department of Transportation (DOT) has formed a partnershipwith Washington state — the site of a major pipeline-relatedexplosion a year ago — to allow its safety inspectors toparticipate in the inspections of interstate pipelines.

Through a partnership announced yesterday with Endesco, afor-profit subsidiary of the Institute of Gas Technology (IGT),NiSource Inc. subsidiary EnergyUSA said it is advancing plans tobecome a major provider of residential fuel cells in the emergingmarket for distributed generation technology.

Tenaska, Inc. and Diamond Generating Corp., a subsidiary ofMitsubishi, have formed Tenaska Diamond, LP, a new power generationpartnership. Through the new company, the partners will own fourdomestic power generating facilities totaling 3,500 MW of capacity.Tenaska and Diamond have also entered into a non-exclusive,strategic alliance agreement for future power generatingdevelopment.

PowerSpring.com, a newly-formed marketer-technology partnership,is rolling out a B2B website aimed at bringing price transparencyto citygates across the country, to tap the next level ofcost-conscious customers, commercial end users, according to JohnHarpole, PowerSpring executive vice president.

PowerSpring.com, a newly-formed marketer-technology partnership,is rolling out a B2B website aimed at bringing price transparencyto citygates across the country, to tap the next level ofcost-conscious customers, commercial end users, according to JohnHarpole, PowerSpring executive vice president.