Southeast

Driven by coal-to-gas switching, natural gas demand growth in the Southeast is poised to “change the structure” of the region’s “market as we know it today,” according to Anupam Das, who manages market analytics for Juno Beach, FL-based wholesale electricity developer NextEra Energy Resources LLC.

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (Transco) has filed an application at FERC to build and operate its Leidy Southeast expansion, which would supply an additional 525,000 Dth/d of capacity from its Leidy line in Pennsylvania as far south as Choctaw County, AL.

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (Transco) has filed an application at FERC to build and operate its Leidy Southeast expansion, which would supply an additional 525,000 Dth/d of capacity from its Leidy line in Pennsylvania as far south as Choctaw County, AL.

EnerJex Resources Inc. has agreed to acquire privately held Black Raven Energy Inc., a Denver-based company with more than 75,000 net acres leased in the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin.

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (Transco) was to start up service over the weekend on the first pipeline loop of its major Northeast Supply Link expansion, one of the key links in sending new gas out of the Marcellus Shale.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC (TGP) has signed a binding, 20-year firm transportation precedent agreement with Mitsubishi Corp. of Japanto ship 600,000 Dth/d of natural gas earmarked for the proposed Cameron LNG liquefaction facility in Hackberry, LA, which is slated to begin liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports in the second half of 2017. Mitsubishi will serve as the foundation shipper for TGP’s Southwest Louisiana Supply Project, which is designed to provide transportation from various supply basins in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Louisiana to Cameron Interstate Pipeline, which connects directly to the Cameron LNG Terminal. Kinder does not own Cameron Interstate Pipeline or the Cameron LNG facility. Sempra Energy, Mitsubishi and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. recently signed 20-year tolling capacity and joint venture agreements for the terminal (see Daily GPI, May 17). “TGP’s unique footprint, connecting key conventional and shale supply areas from the South Texas Eagle Ford to the Utica and Marcellus in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and access to the Haynesville Shale supply area and the Perryville Hub in Louisiana, makes our Southwest Louisiana Supply Project an ideal fit to serve the future supply needs of Mitsubishi Corp. and the planned Cameron LNG complex,” said TGP President Kimberly Watson.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has updated several maps and data charts for the Utica Shale and Point Pleasant formation, including one map showing the weight of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) that could be used by operators to decide where to drill in the future.

Five salvage experts boarded the grounded drilling unit Kulluk Wednesday morning on the southeast shoreline of Sitkalidak Island, AK, to conduct a structural assessment to be used in salvage plans being developed by the Kulluk Tow Incident Unified Command.

A year-long study has concluded that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in an urban oilfield in the Los Angeles area will not harm the environment.