Talks

Trinidad and Tobago, the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the United States, is in negotiations with Freeport-McMoRan Energy on a possible ownership stake in Freeport’s Main Pass Energy Hub LNG regasification project offshore Louisiana, Trinidad Energy Minister Eric Williams announced last week.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week urged FERC to move forward expeditiously with resolving cases pending at the federal agency related to refunds due to the state from electricity overcharges during California’s electricity crisis in 2000-2001.

Trinidad and Tobago, the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the United States, is in negotiations with Freeport-McMoRan Energy on a possible ownership stake in Freeport’s Main Pass Energy Hub LNG regasification project offshore Louisiana, Trinidad Energy Minister Eric Williams announced on Tuesday, according to a report from Reuters.

An Alaskan oil and gas official said last week that the state would welcome MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. back to the table to construct a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to the Lower 48. The Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary last month withdrew its application to build a $6.3 billion pipeline because it said the state did not agree to allow an exclusive five-year development period (see NGI, March 29).

An Alaskan oil and gas official said Tuesday that the state would welcome MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. back to the table to construct a natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to the Lower 48. The Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary last month withdrew its application to build a $6.3 billion pipeline because it said the state did not agree to allow an exclusive five-year development period (see Daily GPI, March 26).

Taking the view that its approved liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals awaiting construction in Louisiana and North Baja can access gas supplies literally anywhere in the world, Sempra Energy has talked with “everyone in the world that has stranded supplies and would like to look at the United States as a marketplace,” according to Don Felsinger, who heads Sempra’s global business unit.

Taking the view that its approved liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals awaiting construction in Louisiana and North Baja can access gas supplies literally anywhere in the world, Sempra Energy has talked with “everyone in the world that has stranded supplies and would like to look at the United States as a marketplace,” according to Don Felsinger, who heads Sempra’s global business unit.

President Bush took steps to jump-start stalled negotiations on the omnibus energy bill at a White House meeting with Republican and Democratic leaders Wednesday.

If the controversial price supports for Alaska gas production fail to make it into the broad energy bill being negotiated, “there will be nothing of significance in the bill that addresses the supply-demand needs” of natural gas customers in the United States, said an official for Alaska producer ConocoPhillips Thursday.