Chesapeake Energy Corp. founder Aubrey McClendon, who was forced to retire as CEO on April 1, has leased office space in Oklahoma City and lured two executives to what appears to be the start of at least one new company.
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Texas-to-California Proposal Appears to Be Picacho Pipeline Revival
In a plan that sounds similar to the shelved Picacho Pipeline proposal, Casper, WY-based Western Energy LLC said it plans to construct a $2.6 billion, 1 Bcf/d natural gas pipeline that would run from the Waha Hub in West Texas through New Mexico and Arizona, ending at the Colorado River.
Texas-to-California Pipe Proposal Appears to Be Picacho Pipeline Revival
In a plan that sounds similar to the shelved Picacho Pipeline proposal, Casper, WY-based Western Energy LLC said this week it plans to construct a $2.6 billion, 1 Bcf/d natural gas pipeline that would run from the Waha Hub in West Texas through New Mexico and Arizona and ending at the Colorado River.
CA State Lawmaker Sounds Alarm on Natural Gas in Future
The California state legislature’s chief advocate for a return to tightly regulated energy utilities absent retail customer choice programs told a legislative committee session Wednesday that natural gas could prove the next serious energy problem for the nation’s most populous state — perhaps as early as this fall or the coming winter. Increasing reliance on gas derivatives is at the heart of the problem, according to the legislator.
Washington State Sounds Off on Power Prices
Governors of nine western states announced last week an emergency energy conservation strategy to avert a California-type energy crisis and to mitigate future higher energy prices.
Washington State Sounds Off on Power Prices
Conservation and off-peak power usage have become the rallyingcries from government and utility officials in the western statesfacing power shortages, as they seek to avert a California-typecrisis.
Schumer Sounds Energy Alarm, Calls For Task Force
President Clinton’s decision yesterday ordering the Departmentof Energy to trade crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reservefor two million barrels of heating oil stored in the Northeast asprotection against fuel shortages this winter may not be enough tocalm down Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY).
CMS’ McCormick Sounds Reliability Warning
CMS Energy’s Chairman William T. McCormick Jr. cited “asignificant lack of adequate transmission capacity,” and noincentives to build more, as threats to the reliability of thenation’s power delivery system in a deregulated environment.
CMS’ McCormick Sounds Reliability Warning
CMS Energy’s Chairman William T. McCormick Jr. cited “asignificant lack of adequate transmission capacity,” and noincentives to build more, as threats to the reliability of thenation’s power delivery system in a deregulated environment.
E Is Everywhere in Energy Industry
The phrase “if you build it, they will come” sounds too ancientto describe the nascent e-commerce scene. Perhaps it’s moreappropriate to ask, “if everyone builds something, will they knowwhere to go?” The months ahead will see no dearth of online tradingoptions for energy and related properties, products and services asplayers scramble to create new sites or get on board existing ones.Among this week’s happenings: