Quebec

Lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly ratified two bills calling for a comprehensive study of hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking). Both bills now await the signature of Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue.

Results of core and petrophysical analyses from a well on Quebec’s Anticosti Island are “encouraging,” according to Corridor Resources Inc. and Petrolia Inc., which hold leases covering more than 1.5 million acres on the island.

The future of the Gros Cacouna liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Quebec has been cast into doubt by a decision by OAO Gazprom to cancel what would have been the terminal’s key source of LNG.

The future of the Gros Cacouna liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Quebec has been cast into doubt by a decision by OAO Gazprom to cancel what would have been the terminal’s key source of LNG.

CIG has taken one unit at Table Rock (WY) Compressor Station out of service through June 23, reducing station capacity from 30 MMcf/d to 8 MMcf/d.

As predicted by National Energy Board (NEB) member Jean-PaulTheoret in a winter speech to a Quebec lawyers’ conference, thefirst results of unleashing competition in the formerly stableCanadian natural gas pipeline community are “messy markets” andpotentially “messy outcomes.” That became clear in one of the firsttests of the NEB’s declared intentions to encourage growth of atrue market in transportation services by making flexibility andadaptability the watchwords for a new era of light-handedregulation.

A gas explosion tore apart TransQuebec & Maritimes (TQM)pipeline’s East Hereford, PQ, compressor station near theQuebec-New-Hampshire border last Thursday, injuring one person andcompletely destroying an instrumentation control building. The lossof gas compression at the border crossing is reducing firm gasflows by 10-20 MMcf/d into the Portland Natural Gas TransmissionSystem (PNGTS) in New England.