Sempra

Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. and its principal interstate supplier, El Paso Natural Gas Co., have a preliminary agreement on a new contract for 750 MMcf/d of capacity on El Paso’s system to take care of SoCalGas’ core customers, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last Tuesday by El Paso. SoCal’s offices were closed Thursday for the Christmas holiday, so the company could not confirm the details.

Sempra Energy’s Los Angeles-based gas utility Southern California Gas Co. Wednesday announced it is offering to list natural gas suppliers who market to its largest customers on the utility web site (www.socalgas.com). Suppliers interested in being listed should call: Mary Reid, SoCalGas transportation products advisor, 213-244-3898. As the nation’s largest gas utility distribution company, SoCalGas serves 18 million customers through 5.1 million meters in a service territory encompassing 23,000 miles in the southern half of California. The utility said the move was another effort to “provide exceptional customer service.”

Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. utility told state regulators Monday that it pulled in $31.3 million in the sale of 8 Bcf of added underground storage gas in its two-week open season that ended late last month (Nov. 26). The utility filed a terse “notice of sale” with the California Public Utilities Commission.

Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. utility sold all of eight “packages” of added underground storage gas in its two-week open season that ended Tuesday, a Los Angeles-based spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. The gas was formerly classified as cushion gas.

More than $500 million is at stake in a growing dispute between Sempra Energy’s San Diego Gas and Electric Co. utility and various political, regulatory and consumer leaders, resurfacing recently with the release of sworn testimony by an SDG&E executive.

In the story “Rush to LNG in Baja Raises Questions About Demand, Infrastructure” published on Thursday, March 7, in the 8th paragraph, note that Sempra’s proposed LNG terminal will be south of Rosarito and north of Ensenada.

One of Sempra Energy’s two major utilities, Los Angeles-based Southern California Gas Co., is being targeted for five years of back overtime pay in a “proposed class action lawsuit,” according to a filing last week in state superior court in Los Angeles on behalf of 500 hourly employees that two law firms seek to represent.

One of Sempra Energy’s two major utilities, Los Angeles-based Southern California Gas Co. is being targeted for five years of back overtime pay in a “proposed class action lawsuit,” according to two law firms filing the suit last week in state superior court in Los Angeles on behalf of 500 hourly employees they seek to represent.

Under political pressure to add gas transportation capacity in the state of California, Sempra subsidiary Southern California Gas announced additional plans to expand its intrastate pipeline system. The company said it will add another 6% of capacity to its previously announced project, bringing the proposed expansion to an 11% increase in capacity or about 200 MMcf/d.