Postponed

The Fort Worth, TX, city council proceeded with most of a new gas drilling ordinance for the city limits on Dec. 9 but postponed decisions on setbacks for multiple well sites and the definition of a “public building” for its Tuesday (Dec. 16) meeting.

Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has postponed closing the record in the case involving the Weaver’s Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project for an additional 60 days to receive more information on the company’s consistency appeal under the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA).

Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has postponed closing the record in the case involving the Weaver’s Cove liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project for an additional 60 days to receive more information on the company’s consistency appeal under the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA).

At hearings in the territorial capital of Yellowknife, the Mackenzie Gas Project’s (MGP) senior partner, Imperial Oil, told the National Energy Board completion of the project could be postponed for a year until 2012. Despite another delay in the arctic pipeline project, natural gas supplies are growing on the “near frontier” of northeastern British Columbia, which is already connected to North American markets.

In a startling departure from its hard-line stance, Kerr-McGee Corp. on Friday said it postponed its lawsuit against the Interior Department over royalty relief for deepwater oil and natural gas leases to participate in mediation of the dispute with the agency.

Tennessee postponed for a second time the installation of a pig launcher and receiver on the 334A-100 Line north of New York City, which will cause a suspension of physical flow at the Con Ed White Plains meter. The project, which had been rescheduled for May 16-30 earlier this month (see Daily GPI, May 10), is now set for May 23-June 6, Tennessee said.

Southern California Gas postponed the second phase of work scheduled in the San Joaquin Valley on Line 225. That ended Wednesday afternoon a large reduction in capacity at the Wheeler Ridge delivery point into SoCalGas due to this maintenance, which had previously been scheduled to run through Friday (see Daily GPI, March 1). The second phase of the project has not yet been rescheduled, a SoCalGas spokeswoman said.

Maintenance on Laguna Station’s #3 unit, previously scheduled for March 7-9, has been postponed to April, El Paso said. The ongoing force majeure involving repair of the #2 unit at Belen Station will continue until further notice, reducing San Juan Crossover capacity by 35 MMcf/d from a base capacity of 650 MMcf/d, the pipeline added.

WGL Holdings Inc., parent company of gas utility Washington Gas Light, said Wednesday that it has postponed the release of its quarterly financial report because it discovered inaccuracies in prior financials regarding subsidiary Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. (WGEServices), its energy marketing subsidiary. The company said earnings for the market unit may have been understated in certain prior periods.