Permits

Inergy LP subsidiary Central New York Oil And Gas Co. LLC has secured the binding agreements it needs in order to apply for permits to construct its MARC I Hub Line Project in Pennsylvania, the company said. The project is one of two complementary efforts the company has in the works that would serve Marcellus Shale production.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has scheduled a meeting in May with natural gas and oil companies that hold permits to drill in the Marcellus Shale to discuss what steps the industry will be required to take to prevent gas from mitigating from wells and polluting the state’s natural resources.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has scheduled a meeting in May with natural gas and oil companies that hold permits to drill in the Marcellus Shale to discuss what steps the industry will be required to take to prevent gas from mitigating from wells and polluting the state’s natural resources.

Calgary-based Canadian Superior Energy Inc. said it is on track to file by the third quarter of 2010 applications for federal and state permits for the Liberty Natural Gas Transmission Project, which would include a liquefied natural gas (LNG) offshore receipt turret and associated pipeline. The turret would be located in federal waters offshore New Jersey (see NGI, May 26, 2008). Oversight of Liberty would be conducted by Excalibur Energy (USA) Inc., which is a joint venture of Canadian Superior and Global LNG Inc. “The company believes market conditions for importing LNG into the New York metropolitan area remain favorable and the Liberty LNG project’s choice of environmentally favorable technology continues to receive strong local support. The Liberty LNG project anticipates first gas imports into the region by year-end 2013,” the company said.

Calgary-based Canadian Superior Energy Inc. said Monday it is on track to file by the third quarter of 2010 applications for federal and state permits for the Liberty Natural Gas Transmission Project, which would include a liquefied natural gas (LNG) offshore receipt turret and associated pipeline.

A proposal adopt an ordinance to temporarily suspend natural gas drilling permits in Flower Mound, TX, which is in the Barnett Shale region, was denied Thursday night by the town council in a 3-2 vote.

Assuming environmental clearances and local land-use permits are obtained this summer, California’s latest natural gas storage project, slated for an industrial area in the southeast corner of Sacramento, can be developed in six to nine months and be operating as a 7.5 Bcf capacity facility by the summer of 2010, the head of the privately funded project told NGI Friday.

Assuming environmental clearances and local land-use permits are obtained this summer, California’s latest natural gas storage project, slated for an industrial area in the southeast corner of Sacramento, can be developed in six to nine months and be operating as a 7.5 Bcf capacity facility by the summer of 2010, the head of the privately funded project told NGI Friday.

Producers that operate in Colorado apparently were on a mission to secure drilling permits under the state’s “old” natural gas and oil rules, with a record number of permit applications filed in March, according to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC). New rules to drill on state lands took effect Wednesday; the federal lands drilling revisions are to take effect in May.