Selection

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of two unconventional natural gas research and development projects for cost-shared funding. DOE will provide about $694,000 to University of Texas at Austin for R&D on a 3-D hydraulic fracture modeling project that will be tested by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. in the Carthage field in East Texas. It also will provide about $500,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a 4-D seismic R&D project to be demonstrated by EnCana Corp. in the Jonah Field in Wyoming.

FERC Chairman Joseph Kelliher on Thursday applauded President Bush’s selection of Philip D. Moeller and Jon Wellinghoff to fill the vacancies at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Jury selection started Monday in a California Superior Court in San Diego County regarding a class action lawsuit against Sempra Energy and its two major utility affiliates, alleging that they conspired with others back in the pre-western energy crisis late 1990s to drive up wholesale natural gas prices at the California-Arizona border.

Jury selection began Monday in the upcoming trial of five former Enron Corp. executives who are accused of lying to make the company’s fledgling broadband business appear successful. The former Enron Broadband Systems (EBS) employees face 170 counts of conspiracy, wire and securities fraud, insider trading and money laundering.

Southern Co. Chairman Allen Franklin announced last week the selection of C. Philip Saunders as President and CEO of the newly formed Southern Co. Gas, which will spearhead the acquisition of the Georgia customers currently being served by The New Power Co., ensuring a smooth transition for those customers to Southern Co. Gas.

Southern Co. Chairman Allen Franklin announced Monday the selection of C. Philip Saunders as President and CEO of the newly formed Southern Co. Gas, which will spearhead the acquisition of the Georgia customers currently being served by The New Power Co., ensuring a smooth transition for those customers to Southern Co. Gas.

Southern Co. Chairman Allen Franklin announced Monday the selection of C. Philip Saunders as President and CEO of the newly formed Southern Co. Gas, which will spearhead the acquisition of the Georgia customers currently being served by The New Power Co., ensuring a smooth transition for those customers to Southern Co. Gas.

A federal bankruptcy judge in New York last week endorsed Enron Corp.’s selection of bankruptcy specialist Stephen F. Cooper as acting CEO of the embattled company, after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) abandoned its opposition to his appointment.

The Web site www.energyOn.com of Englewood, CO, has expanded itsservice territory to include gas service for business andresidential consumers in Maryland. The site currently offers aselection of competitive energy suppliers and products forconsumers in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, California,the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland. The site alsorecently expanded the Pennsylvania market to include York County.