Eight out of nine major national and regional hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) service providers have agreed to submit “timely and complete information” to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conduct its study on hydrofracking and its impact on drinking water quality, the EPA said Tuesday. Halliburton, after failing to comply with the agency’s voluntary requests for information, has been subpoenaed.
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Most Service Companies Comply With EPA Hydrofracking Inquiry
Eight out of nine major national and regional hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) service providers have agreed to submit “timely and complete information” to help the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conduct its study on hydrofracking and its impact on drinking water quality, the EPA said Tuesday. Halliburton, after failing to comply with the agency’s voluntary requests for information, has been subpoenaed.
Talks Begin in Bid for Quicksilver
Fort Worth, TX-based Quicksilver Resources Inc. has entered into a confidentiality agreement with a group of investors that includes Quicksilver CEO Glenn Darden, Chairman Thomas Darden and the Darden family-controlled Quicksilver Energy LP. The group may seek to take Quicksilver private.
California First in Line for Federal Energy Funds
Eyeing up to $1 billion in federal stimulus package funding, California claimed Tuesday to be the first state to submit its application for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) State Energy Program (SEP) funding. The California Energy Commission (CEC) successfully completed the state’s SEP filing, which promises massive energy savings and more than 2,000 new jobs, according to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
NSTAR Proposes Winter Price Cut for Residential Customers
The decline in the price of natural gas has prompted NSTAR Gas to submit to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities a winter rate of $0.9799/therm, an 18% decrease from last year’s rate of $1.1949/therm, the company said Monday.
FERC Orders Gas Quality Filings to Comply with New Policy
FERC in separate orders Tuesday directed Columbia Gulf Transmission and Tennessee Gas Pipeline to submit revised tariff filings that comply with the agency’s new policy statement on natural gas quality issues that was issued in June. The orders also called for technical conferences to be held to discuss the proposed changes.
Transportation Notes
Williams Field Services (WFS) told its midstream customers that they would be able to submit all nominations to the GasKit system for all cycles Wednesday, according to a posting Tuesday on the Kern River bulletin board. In announcing the restoration of GasKit service, WFS said it will no longer accept faxed nominations. Unfortunately, the company went on, the data on GasKit reports will not be accurate for the gas days of Dec. 5 through Dec. 12. “We will update this data, including shipper imbalances, as soon as possible and will post a notice communicating when the data is reliable,” it said. Presumably this announcement related to last week’s flooding at Williams headquarters in Tulsa, which knocked out the EDI (electronic data interchange) server for WFS nominations at the Opal Plant, where there has been a dearth of trading recently. However, a Williams spokesman could not be reached for confirmation.
Alaska Commission to Revise Prudhoe Bay Gas Output Rate
A group of North Slope producers plans to submit a proposal to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) about sharing proprietary production data from the Prudhoe Bay reservoir. A final agreement on use of some of the data is expected to help the commission revise a rule on the rate of allowable natural gas production from Prudhoe, which in turn could pave the way for moving forward on the producers’ proposed $20 billion gas pipeline.
Alaska Commission to Revise Prudhoe Bay Gas Output Rate
Within the next two weeks, a group of North Slope producers plans to submit a proposal to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) about sharing proprietary production data from the Prudhoe Bay reservoir. A final agreement on use of some of the data is expected to help the commission revise a rule on the rate of allowable natural gas production from Prudhoe, which in turn could pave the way for moving forward on the producers’ proposed $20 billion gas pipeline.
Alaska Producers Submit Proposal to Build North Slope Gas Pipeline
Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski said Thursday that the state has received a proposal from Alaska’s three top natural gas producers — BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil — to build a long-line gas pipeline from the prolific North Slope region to the Lower 48 states.