Timetable

Two polls show New Yorkers remain evenly split on the issue of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), but one poll shows opponents of the practice could cause more political damage to Gov. Andrew Cuomo if it ultimately is approved.

Officials in the Town — not the City — of Rochester, NY, are considering a ban on natural gas extraction.

A coalition of New York landowners who support natural gas development came to the state capital on Wednesday to meet elected officials backing their cause and to deliver them a six-point landowners’ “declaration of rights.”

Although Norse Energy Corp. ASA has put most of its leasehold in New York up for sale, the company said it hopes to continue doing business in the state — especially through a joint venture (JV) — and is currently in negotiations with several interested parties over its assets.

The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is “indispensable to the world’s energy future,” but BP plc has no timetable about when it may be returning to the deepwater, a top executive said last week.

The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is “indispensable to the world’s energy future,” but BP plc has no timetable about when it may be returning to the deepwater, a top executive said Tuesday.

California officials are openly unhappy with the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) projected 18-month timetable for the investigation of last Thursday’s natural gas pipeline explosion, which killed at least four and left several people still unaccounted for. Officials are pushing Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and their own investigators to accelerate inspections and investigations that will eventually include all of PG&E’s pipelines in the state.

The latest entrant in the competition to site a liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in Oregon has big plans and a five-year timetable for siting a tolling facility at the mouth of the Columbia River with potential sources of LNG being literally worldwide, according to one of the two principal executives running Oregon LNG, Mohammed Alrai, senior vice president, who spoke to NGI last Friday.

One of the uncertainties plaguing state energy planners, the retirement of aging electric generation plants, is the subject of a new study by the California Energy Commission (CEC) that is slated to be completed this summer in time for inclusion in the state’s 2004 updated integrated energy resource plan due to the state legislature this fall. A workshop was held in Sacramento Wednesday to set some of the parameters for the study of what is estimated to be between 5,000 and 10,000 MW that could retire by 2009.