Skeptical

The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is skeptical of information pipeline operators have submitted to comply with a new state registry, the chairman of the agency told a Pittsburgh audience Friday.

Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said Wednesday it remains skeptical of plans for a more robust gas transportation fueling network that were approved by the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC). The regulators went against a staff recommendation, opening some of the network to individual consumers with compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles.

The natural gas industry is more bullish about the Utica Shale than ever before, but several geologists remain skeptical until more data is publicly available about the play.

The natural gas industry is more bullish about the Utica Shale than ever before, but several geologists remain skeptical until more data is publicly available about the play.

As U.S. gas production grows, local distribution utilities that once might have been skeptical about the strong supply outlook from shale plays now look like wallflowers lingering in the spot market, reluctant to strike long-term supply deals until there’s more clarity on price direction.

As U.S. gas production grows, local distribution utilities that once might have been skeptical about the strong supply outlook from shale plays now look like wallflowers lingering in the spot market, reluctant to strike long-term supply deals until there’s more clarity on price direction.

Even the once skeptical White House has come to agree that nationally and internationally “climate change must be one of the drivers of energy policy at every level,” California’s chief regulator, Michael Peevey, told a receptive audience Oct. 10 in San Francisco before the Business Council for Sustainable Energy’s 2007 conference.

At least one major independent power producer in California takes a skeptical view about the potential price and reliabiliity advantages that introduction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports on the West Coast will have on the wholesale gas and power sectors. NRG Energy Inc. thinks LNG will have minimal impact.

As much of the eastern half of the country continued to freeze, natural gas futures bulls on Tuesday were a little skeptical of making another run to the upside so soon after the March contract was rebuffed by the psychological $8 level in overnight trade on Sunday. On Tuesday, the prompt month traded within a $7.460 to $7.730 range before settling at $7.616, down 1.8 cents from Monday’s close.