Shipped

Americans like their natural gas molecules to be homegrown, and most of them prefer that they be kept at home instead of shipped abroad as liquefied natural gas (LNG), a recent poll by the University of Texas at Austin (UT) found.

Dow Chemical Co. has taken the next step forward to build a planned world-class ethylene facility in Freeport, TX, and is seeking a federal air emissions permit for the proposed plant.

Industry investment in infrastructure and more emphasis on infill developmental wells are helping to contain North Dakota’s wellhead flaring of natural gas in the oil/liquids-rich Bakken Shale formation, a state official said.

The Texas State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH), which was created to referee contested cases, will hold a hearing July 12 in Gainesville, TX, on EOG Resources Inc.’s application for an air permit to build a plant to process sand to be used primarily to hydraulically fracture (frack) oil and natural gas wells.

ConocoPhillips said Wednesday the first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Qatargas 3 (QG3) joint venture, in which it has a 30% stake, was shipped last Thursday (Nov. 25) from Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, bound for the Canaport LNG Terminal in Saint John, NB.

Officials at the Golden Pass LNG terminal in Sabine Pass, TX, expect the terminal’s first commissioning cargo to arrive during October.

Ras Laffan Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Co., the joint venture of the Qatar national petroleum company and ExxonMobil Corp., shipped its first LNG cargo to South America with a spot sale to Chile’s BG LNG Trading LLC, according to press reports.

Not all of the Rocky Mountain natural gas to be shipped by Rockies Express Pipeline to eastern markets is likely to reach its intended destination due to the growing appetite for gas in the Midwest, said an executive for Nexen Marketing USA Inc. at GasMart 2007 last Thursday.

Not all of the Rocky Mountain natural gas to be shipped by Rockies Express Pipeline to eastern markets is likely to reach its intended destination due to the expanding demand in the Midwest, said an executive for Nexen Marketing USA Inc. at GasMart 2007 Thursday.