Seal

AT&T recently asked a unit of Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. to convert 463 Ford vans to run on compressed natural gas (CNG). The converted fleet vehicles are to be delivered in the second quarter.

Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said Friday it has agreed to acquire Dallas, TX-based BAF Technologies Inc., a U.S. provider of natural gas vehicle systems and conversions. Clean Energy is a supplier of natural gas and gas-related infrastructure to the transportation sector — both compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The City of Los Angeles has signed a 10-year deal with Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. for supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel a fleet of 340 sanitation trucks.

For the skeptics, it can now be said that a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant can be built in California, although the one that is under construction by Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is for liquefaction of pipeline gas, is located far from any population center in the middle of the Mojave Desert and the liquid fuel will be used in heavy vehicle transportation.

Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp., the Equatorial Guinea government and the national oil company of Equatorial Guinea, Compania Nacional de Petroleos de Guinea Ecuatorial (GEPetrol), said last Tuesday they have finalized all the agreements for the companies’ Equatorial Guinea liquefied natural gas (LNG) project that would target deliveries to Lake Charles, LA.

Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp., the Equatorial Guinea government and the national oil company of Equatorial Guinea, Compania Nacional de Petroleos de Guinea Ecuatorial (GEPetrol), said Tuesday they have finalized all the agreements for the companies’ Equatorial Guinea liquefied natural gas (LNG) project that would target deliveries to Lake Charles, LA.

In addition to the shock surrounding the latest on the unraveling of market-maker Enron, natural gas traders and market watchers were rocked again Wednesday by another in a string of bearish reports by the American Gas Association. The group announced that 12 Bcf was injected into underground storage facilities for the week ending Nov. 23, bringing gas levels to a record 3,144 Bcf. In a fitting twist, December natural gas futures spiraled lower on the news, surpassing previous lows reached early in 1999, just weeks after storage levels had crested a new peak (at that time) of 3,127 Bcf.

Coming to completion right on schedule, Houston-based Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Co. LLC, general partner of TEPPCO Partners LP, reported that it has finalized its acquisition of the Jonah Gas Gathering Co. from Green River Pipeline LLC and McMurry Oil Co., both wholly owned subsidiaries of Alberta Energy Co. Ltd. (AEC). TEPPCO said the estimated $360 million deal marks its entry into the natural gas gathering business.

Coming to completion right on schedule, Houston-based Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Co. LLC, general partner of TEPPCO Partners LP, reported that it has finalized its acquisition of the Jonah Gas Gathering Co. from Green River Pipeline LLC and McMurry Oil Co., both wholly owned subsidiaries of Alberta Energy Co. Ltd. (AEC). TEPPCO said the estimated $360 million deal marks its entry into the natural gas gathering business.