Starts

The story “Construction Starts on California Gas Storage Field” (see Daily GPI, Jan. 13) misstated the length of a pipeline that will be built to connect the Gill Ranch natural gas storage facility currently under construction in the San Joaquin Valley of California to PG&E’s existing transmission backbone pipeline (No. 401) north of Panoche, CA. The actual length of the to-be-built pipeline is 25 miles. NGI regrets the error.

Preparing for operation after years of fits and starts, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has announced a nonbinding open season for shippers seeking firm capacity commencing as early as November 2008 on the company’s 182-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and the lower Hudson Valley.

Preparing for operation after years of fits and starts, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has announced a nonbinding open season for shippers seeking firm capacity commencing as early as November 2008 on the company’s 182-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and the lower Hudson Valley.

After years of fits and starts, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has begun construction of its 182-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and the lower Hudson Valley, the company said Friday.

After years of fits and starts, Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has begun construction of its 182-mile long, 30-inch diameter pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and the lower Hudson Valley, the company said Friday.

As California’s state legislature starts its final week Tuesday with several renewable energy and resource adequacy issues on its plate, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s revitalized proposal to reorganize the state’s energy bureaucracy into a cabinet-level energy department has been put off until next year’s second part of the current two-year session. The governor’s eleventh-hour attempt to push a proposal that was earlier in the year rejected as part of a new bill (AB 1165) was set aside by a legislative committee last week.

Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) Commissioner Kevin Wright would like to see state lawmakers adopt legislation that would give the ICC guidance as the state commission starts to consider an ambitious renewable portfolio standard (RPS) recently proposed by Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

FERC last week gave Cheyenne Plains Gas Pipeline Co., a subsidiary of El Paso Corp., the go-ahead to begin deliveries on its 380-mile mainline pipeline of natural gas from the prolific Rocky Mountain region to markets in the Midcontinent and the Midwest.

While stimulating research on substitutes and new processes, natural gas prices are not yet high enough to make Alberta oilsands developers blink. Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. is going ahead on the next bitumen mega-mine in northern Alberta, while acknowledging gas will be a major continuing expense.