Primed

Williams management said Thursday it is primed for continued growth from the Marcellus Shale because producers want more natural gas takeaway capacity and stalwart Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (Transco) is ready to deliver the goods.

Tulsa-based Williams continues to be primed for solid natural gas infrastructure expansions in North America, with the biggest still planned for the Marcellus Shale, CEO Alan Armstrong said Wednesday.

The Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas is “primed for growth,” thanks to a substantial foundation of gathering, transmission, processing and fractionation infrastructure in place, Bentek Energy LLC said in a report. And more projects are under way or in the works over the next few years.

The Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas is “primed for growth,” thanks to a substantial foundation of gathering, transmission, processing and fractionation infrastructure in place, Bentek Energy LLC said in a new report. And more projects are under way or in the works over the next few years.

With applicants and opponents both primed for a long debate, the draft environmental impact report on a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the Port of Long Beach, CA, will be released on Monday when the port oversight board is scheduled to meet, according to Tom Giles, the COO for Sound Energy Solutions (SES), a joint venture of Mitsubishi Corp. and ConocoPhillips that has proposed the terminal.

California’s private-sector utilities are primed to get back into the power generation sector, and pending rate cases, integrated resource planning and resolution of the state’s direct access program, all should be resolved this year by a combination of state regulatory and legislative actions, according to Carl Wood, the longest serving and most liberal commissioner of the five member California Public Utilities Commission.

The Pacific Northwest, historically a great corridor forshipping western Canadian natural gas to California’s burgeoningmarkets, is getting increasing attention for expansion ordevelopment of natural gas storage to fuel its own growth, whichhas averaged 5% annually in the 1990s. The region’s only twounderground storage facilities are in the midst of expansions, andenergy players within and outside the region are searching for newstorage prospects-under-and above-ground.