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DOE Urges Reopening Aliso Canyon While Opponents Question SoCal Summer Assessment
A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) official pressed last week for California regulators to reopen the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility while opponents on Monday continued to push for the 3,600-acre facility to be permanently closed.
Many Wells Still Awaiting Three-Pronged Test at Aliso Canyon
Owner/operator Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has indicated its shuttered 86 Bcf Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage field may reopen this year, but most of the 114 storage wells still await final testing, officials said.
FERC Back in Business After Power Outage
After two days of being in the dark, power was restored to the Washington, DC, headquarters of FERC, allowing it to reopen its doors Friday, the agency said.
Methanex to Restart Canadian Plant in 2011
Methanex Corp. said Wednesday it plans to reopen the doors next April at its now shuttered 470,000 ton/year methanol plant in Medicine Hat, AB.
NorthWestern-BBI Merger May Be Reopened By Montana PSC
A new proposal by Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI) has prompted the staff at the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) to recommend that the five regulators reopen the utility’s proposed acquisition of South Dakota-based NorthWestern Energy. In May the PSC voted 5-0 to reject the original BBI-NorthWestern marriage proposal (see Daily GPI, May 24).
Williams Calls on FTC to Lift Order Related to MAPCO Acquisition
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday said it received a petition from The Williams Cos. asking the agency to reopen and modify an order that required the company to provide pipeline capacity to Kinder Morgan Operating LP, an operator of propane terminals, and to any competing pipeline wishing to connect to Williams’ natural gas processing plants.
Elba Island LNG Terminal Calls Open Season, Plans Expansion
El Paso Corp.’s Southern LNG Inc. has announced an open season to expand its soon-to-reopen Elba Island liquefied natural gas receiving terminal near Savannah, GA by approximately 80%. Southern LNG wants to offer an additional 3.3 Bcf of storage capacity with a send-out rate of 360 MMcf/d, with a planned in-service date of 2005. The Elba Island facility, which has been inactive since 1982, is scheduled to begin receiving shipments this month, and its expansion plans follow on the heels of two other domestic LNG expansions already in the works.
Nymex First NY Exchange to Reopen
The New York Mercantile Exchange re-opened Friday for a two-hour Internet-based, eNymex Access trading session, making it the first New York exchange to resume trading, three and a half days after terrorists ripped the heart out of Wall Street with the destruction of the World Trade Center. Nymex, whose regular address is just a few hundred yards away from where the Trade Center used to be, ran Friday’s trading from an off-site location. It had suspended natural gas futures trading before the opening of the regular open-outcry session on Tuesday, after the first plane hit the Trade Center at 8:45 a.m. EDT.
Elba Island LNG Terminal Calls Open Season, Plans Expansion
El Paso Corp.’s Southern LNG Inc. has announced an open season to expand its soon-to-reopen Elba Island liquefied natural gas receiving terminal near Savannah, GA by approximately 80%. Southern LNG wants to offer an additional 3.3 Bcf of storage capacity with a send-out rate of 360 MMcf/d, with a planned in-service date of 2005. The Elba Island facility, which has been inactive since 1982, is scheduled to begin receiving shipments this month, and its expansion plans follow on the heels of two other domestic LNG expansions already in the works.