Reservoir

The record-breaking drought gripping Texas has the state’s reservoir/aquifer managers eyeing water levels and issuing warnings. But lower water reserves apparently have not seriously affected oil and gas activities in the state, at least not yet.

With the booming U.S. industry players keeping a close eye out for the opening of global markets, India reported completing its first shale gas well Tuesday as some observers of the Indian energy space speculate that the nation may have its largest natural gas deposits locked in shale. U.S. oilfield services provider Schlumberger drilled India’s first well.

Gill Ranch Storage LLC (GRS), a subsidiary of NW Natural, has begun service from a new underground storage facility at Gill Ranch near Fresno, CA.

Natural gas hydrates, which could potentially lead to huge energy resources, occur at high saturations within reservoir-quality sands in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), according to reports unveiled Tuesday by the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

Natural gas hydrates, which could potentially lead to huge energy resources, occur at high saturations within reservoir-quality sands in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), according to reports unveiled Tuesday by the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

In a landmark discovery, high saturations of natural gas hydrates have been discovered within reservoir-quality sands in the Lower Tertiary of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) reported Thursday.

In a landmark discovery, high saturations of natural gas hydrates have been discovered within reservoir-quality sands in the Lower Tertiary of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) reported Thursday.

Inergy subsidiary Arlington Storage Co. LLC (ASC) has filed with FERC to develop and operate a depleted reservoir natural gas storage project in Steuben County, NY, known as the Thomas Corners project.

Saying its storage inventories are at or near reservoir guidelines, CIG declared a Strained Operating Condition (SOC) Thursday that will be in effect until further notice. “CIG’s ability to absorb imbalances caused by mismatches between scheduled receipts and deliveries or those imbalances arising from variations in actual gas flow from scheduled quantities is extremely limited,” the pipeline said. “This limitation includes capacity to handle storage injections in excess of each storage shipper’s Available Daily Injection Quantity (ADIQ) or inventory levels above Maximum Available Capacity (MAC).” Under the SOC, CIG said, injection rates in excess of ADIQ and/or inventory levels in excess of MAC are subject to unauthorized overrun charges.