Sponsors

Reading the handwriting on the waves from state rejections last month of a similar project, the sponsors of the Clearwater Port liquefied natural gas (LNG) project off the Southern California coast late Tuesday offered to take stepped-up air emissions mitigation measures. They made the pledge to federal and state air quality regulators.

Once a basket case and white elephant abandoned by its private-sector sponsors, the massive Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota delivered $39.2 million in profits to the federal Department of Energy (DOE) earlier in May under a revenue-sharing agreement dating to 1988 when DOE bailed out the then money-losing venture. Now operated by Dakota Gasification Co. (DGC), a for-profit unit of a major Bismarck, ND, cooperative utility, the plant has returned nearly $1 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the form of revenues and unused tax credits.

Once a basket case and white elephant abandoned by its private-sector sponsors, the massive Great Plains Synfuels Plant in North Dakota delivered $39.2 million in profits to the federal Department of Energy (DOE) Monday under a revenue-sharing agreement dating to 1988 when DOE bailed out the then money-losing venture. Now operated by Dakota Gasification Co. (DGC), a for-profit unit of a major Bismarck, ND, cooperative utility, the plant has returned nearly $1 billion to the U.S. Treasury in the form of revenues and unused tax credits.

Canada’s northern pipeline sponsors did not answer the big question raised by the project’s recent mammoth cost increase, but they earlier disclosed where to look for clues. Can the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) be built for its new price tag of C$16.2 billion (US$13.7 billion)?

Canada’s northern pipeline sponsors did not answer the big question raised by the project’s recent mammoth cost increase, but they earlier disclosed where to look for clues. Can the Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP) be built for its new price tag of C$16.2 billion (US$13.7 billion)?

Spurned last month by a harbor commission board that refused to complete several years of environmental review work, the sponsors of the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Long Beach (CA) harbor Thursday asked a state Superior Court in Los Angeles to force the port to complete the job it took on jointly with FERC more than three years ago.

With its senior officers declaring they will win the fight, the sponsors of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Long Beach (CA) harbor fired shots in three different directions Thursday — in a state court, at city hall and in the FERC corridors in Washington, DC. In the end, Sound Energy Solutions (SES) expects to be vindicated before the Port of Long Beach Harbor Commission.

The Canaport LNG project in Saint John’s, NB, continues to move forward with an announcement Wednesday that project sponsors Repsol YPF and Irving Oil awarded the onshore and offshore engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts and issued the final notice to proceed with construction.

An engineering review has shaved about 4% off forecast costs of the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and reduced its environmental footprint, the sponsors have told Canada’s National Energy Board.