Steps

What happens if the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) designates a national interest electric transmission corridor (NIETC) in the United States and nobody steps forward with a proposed transmission project? A DOE official last Tuesday said this scenario would be a “challenge,” noting the lack of “carrots and sticks” available to address such a situation, at least at the federal level. States and regions should start thinking about how they would respond to such an eventuality, said the DOE’s Poonum Agrawal.

FERC on Thursday took steps to spur and expedite repairs and the construction of new interstate natural gas pipelines in an effort to bolster deliveries of gas supplies this winter from the hurricane-battered Gulf Coast region.

Mexico’s President Vicente Fox this week announced a series of steps that he said will reduce the country’s energy costs as well as its dependence on foreign energy supplies. Among other things, Fox wants to change Mexico’s constitution to allow more private investment in natural gas exploration.

Marking one of the final steps in its effort to exit operations that detract from its core focus on unconventional natural gas and oil resources in North America, EnCana Corp. said Tuesday it is selling its shares in subsidiaries that have oil and pipeline interests in Ecuador to Andes Petroleum Co., a joint venture of Chinese petroleum companies, for US$1.42 billion in cash.

FERC last Wednesday refined a final rule issued earlier this year that outlines the open season steps potential sponsors must follow when allocating transportation capacity on a long-line system stretching from Alaska’s North Slope to markets in the Lower 48 states.

FERC on Wednesday refined a final rule issued earlier this year that identified the open season steps potential sponsors must follow when allocating transportation capacity on a long-line system stretching from Alaska’s North Slope to markets in the Lower 48 states.

Because North America’s appetite for natural gas shows no signs of letting up anytime soon, policy makers need to take swift steps to deal with pipeline capacity constraints, liquefied natural gas (LNG) siting problems, production bottlenecks and gas storage concerns, says a new trilateral report by senior energy officials from the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Because North America’s appetite for natural gas shows no signs of letting up anytime soon, policy makers need to take swift steps to deal with pipeline capacity constraints, liquefied natural gas (LNG) siting problems, production bottlenecks and gas storage concerns, says a new trilateral report by senior energy officials from the United States, Canada and Mexico.

FERC on Wednesday issued a final rule that lays out all the steps potential sponsors will have to go through to carry out open seasons for transportation capacity on proposed Alaska natural gas pipeline projects.