Planners

Natural gas wholesale prices, along with those of other fossil fuels, are a major factor that continues to bedevil planners at the Northwest Power and Conservation Council as they attempt to finalize the organization’s sixth Power Plan, according to report on the draft plan given to council representatives at their monthly meeting Wednesday in Sun Valley, ID.

Emphasizing state energy planners’ current concerns about generation in the southern half of the state, the California Energy Commission (CEC) in less than a week hurried along four separate generation projects, including repowering and peaking facilities. Three of the actions came last Wednesday at the power plant-siting panel’s regular business meeting in Sacramento.

Libya has identified itself as fertile and welcoming soil for a budding strategy among Canadian producers of replacing their deteriorating fields by developing liquefied natural gas (LNG) abroad for tanker shipments back to North America.

Libya has identified itself as fertile and welcoming soil for a budding strategy among Canadian producers of replacing their deteriorating fields by developing liquefied natural gas (LNG) abroad for tanker shipments back to North America.

A June 2000 internal presentation by Royal Dutch/Shell Group planners apparently warned about overly optimistic proven and probable oil and gas reserves, according to a report in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal.

A June 2000 internal presentation by Royal Dutch/Shell Group planners apparently warned about overly optimistic proven and probable oil and gas reserves, according to a report in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal.

While getting more attention in recent projections from state energy planners, one of California’s most vociferous independent oil/gas producers is eyeing the long shot possibility it might be able to purchase some of the smaller properties that ChevronTexaco is considering selling among its vast producing properties in the state’s sprawling central valley.

Despite extensive negotiations and concessions by project planners, the U. S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) has protested the construction of an underwater Bahamas to Florida LNG pipeline proposed by AES Ocean Express LLC. According to the center, the proposed line would run through the Navy’s south Florida test range compromising “the mission, operations, maintenance, safety and security at the [testing facility]; thereby adversely impacting unique surface and submarine warfare testing which are essential to the Navy and the security of the Nation and the Fleet.”

As pipeline planners head north into regions where the population is primarily — and sometimes exclusively — aboriginal, Canada’s National Energy Board is laying out a formula for turning touchy relations into business relationships: Make deals, not regulations.