Placing

Legislation placing some type of restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) will inevitably become U.S. law, and natural gas is likely to be the bridge — possibly a very long bridge — to the coming carbon-constrained economy, according a panel of industry experts.

Having gotten final FERC approval Wednesday (see Daily GPI, Dec. 29), El Paso said it was placing its Line 1903 Expansion Project in service effective Friday (Dec. 30). The project provides 502 MMcf/d of capacity utilizing the affiliated Mojave Pipeline system and a new lateral interconnecting El Paso’s northern and southern systems. The project also provides El Paso customers access to Rocky Mountain gas supplies via the Kern River interconnect at Daggett, CA. El Paso said it will offer shippers alternate access to markets and supply sources on Mojave “as soon as practical.”

Placing energy, or the lack thereof, at the core of “virtually every problem facing humanity,” Richard E. Smalley, director of the Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory at Rice University, said the country should be skeptical of the existing energy industry’s optimism that it can find a solution to the energy prosperity dilemma.

Placing energy, or the lack thereof, at the core of “virtually every problem facing humanity,” Richard E. Smalley, director of the Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory at Rice University, said the country should be skeptical of the existing energy industry’s optimism that it can find a solution to the energy prosperity dilemma.

Florida Gas Transmission (FGT), by placing “onerous” conditions on AES Ocean Express LLC in its pursuit of an interconnection with FGT’s system, is frustrating the company’s plans to construct a proposed Bahamas-to-Florida line to deliver regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the southern Florida market, AES Ocean Express said last week.

Florida Gas Transmission (FGT), by placing “onerous” conditions on AES Ocean Express LLC in its pursuit of an interconnection with FGT’s system, is frustrating the company’s plans to construct a proposed Bahamas-to-Florida line to deliver regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the southern Florida market, AES Ocean Express contends.

Following Moody’s Investors Service’s announcement that it was placing the credit ratings of NiSource Inc. and its subsidiaries under review for possible downgrade, NiSource CEO Gary L. Neale fired back with a release expressing his disappointment at the action.

Following Moody’s Investors Service’s announcement that it was placing the credit ratings of NiSource Inc. and its subsidiaries under review for possible downgrade, NiSource CEO Gary L. Neale fired back with a release expressing his disappointment at the action.

DTE Energy has made a non-binding bid in response to FirstEnergy Corp.’s placing a ‘for sale’ sign in front of four of its predominantly coal-fired power plants in Ohio, after a deal to sell those assets to NRG Energy Inc. collapsed over the summer, a spokesperson for DTE Energy told NGI last Wednesday.