Voracious

ICE Acquires ChemConnect’s NGL, Chemical Commodity Trading Business

Continuing to display its voracious appetite for acquisitions and mergers, Atlanta-based IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) — an electronic energy marketplace and soft commodity exchange — said Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Houston-based ChemConnect Inc.’s commodity trading business.

June 5, 2007

Calpine, Bechtel Plan 600 MW San Francisco Plant

Under an ongoing partnering agreement, Calpine Corp., the voracious San Jose, CA-based power plant developer, and a part of the venerable San Francisco-based international infrastructure builder, Bechtel, applied to the California Energy Commission to build and operate a 600 MW natural gas-fired power plant in the East San Francisco Bay town of Hayward.

May 28, 2001

Calpine, Bechtel Plan 600 MW San Francisco Plant

Under an ongoing partnering agreement, Calpine Corp., the voracious San Jose, CA-based power plant developer, and a part of the venerable San Francisco-based international infrastructure builder, Bechtel, applied to the California Energy Commission Wednesday to build and operate a 600 MW natural gas-fired power plant in the East San Francisco Bay town of Hayward.

May 25, 2001

Mix of Supplies Insulates Calpine

Calpine Corp., the San Jose, CA-based merchant power plantdeveloper, maintains a voracious appetite for natural gas that itexpects to reach 6 to 7 Bcf/d in the next five years, but it isunfazed by the current price spike and supply tightness headinginto winter. A diversified portfolio approach that aims for up to aquarter of its supplies coming from its own reserves makes Calpineofficials shrug off worries about future gas markets.

September 27, 2000