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A midstream subsidiary of the Energy Corporation of America (ECA) has applied with FERC requesting jurisdiction for an existing natural gas gathering system in northwestern Pennsylvania to serve a power plant in the region.

A settlement has been reached in a simmering dispute between Wisconsin’s two major private-sector utility ownership groups over a proposed natural gas-fired 650 MW generation plant slated for Beloit, WI.

At about 10 a.m. CST Thursday a fire broke out at the 300 MMcf/d Ramsey Natural Gas Processing Plant in the Delaware Basin near Orla, TX. The plant is owned by Western Gas Partners LP, a unit of Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

With a collapse of plans for a highly promoted multi-billion-dollar fertilizer plant in the state, North Dakota-based MDU Resources Group’s pipeline unit on Wednesday pulled its application at FERC for a 96-mile, 20-inch diameter natural gas pipeline that would have served the proposed plant.

Dallas-based private equity firm Panda Power Funds LP has secured $835 million in private financing to begin work on one of the nation’s largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in central Pennsylvania.

Calgary-based AltaGas Ltd.’s U.S. unit has agreed to buy three natural gas-fired power plants in central California’s San Joaquin Valley — with a combined capacity of 523 MW — for $642 million.

FERC has started its environmental assessment (EA) of the Demicks Lake natural gas pipeline project (see Daily GPI,May 14), which is tied to a proposed gas processing plant of the same name that has been suspended in the Williston Basin.

Just months after it secured $899 million in financing, Switzerland’s Advanced Power AG has begun construction on a 700 MW natural gas-fired power plant in the heart of Ohio’s Utica Shale (see Daily GPI, April 8).

Natural gas is the cornerstone of Duke Energy's newly announced plan to retire its Asheville, NC, coal-fired power plant within five years and modernize its power generation and transmission system in western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina.