Wake

Under more public scrutiny in the wake of the devastating failure of a high-pressure transmission pipeline segment in San Bruno, CA, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has made public its maintenance/inspection prioritization, but it gives no sense of how it has been identifying and dealing with high-risk portions of the 6,438 miles of transmission pipelines in its system.

In the wake of the NorthernStar Natural Gas bankruptcy filing and abandonment of its FERC-permitted Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in northwest Oregon, industry observers see the proposed Palomar natural gas pipeline, which had a potential connection with Bradwood, as perhaps the next gas project domino to fall in the Pacific Northwest. However, Palomar officials told NGI last Wednesday that the project is still alive, but “slowed” in its permitting.

In the wake of the NorthernStar Natural Gas bankruptcy filing and abandonment of its FERC-permitted Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in northwest Oregon, industry observers see the proposed Palomar natural gas pipeline, which had a potential connection with Bradwood, as perhaps the next gas project domino to fall in the Pacific Northwest. However, Palomar officials told NGI last Wednesday that the project is still alive, but “slowed” in its permitting.

EOG Resources, which had been ordered to suspend all of its natural gas well drilling activities in Pennsylvania in the wake of a June 3 blowout at a company well in Clearfield County, PA, has been given a green light to resume hydraulic fracturing activities in the state.

EOG Resources, which had been ordered to suspend all of its natural gas well drilling activities in Pennsylvania in the wake of a June 3 blowout at a company well in Clearfield County, PA, has been given a green light to resume hydraulic fracturing activities in the state.

In the wake of a liquidation bankruptcy filing by Houston-based NorthernStar Natural Gas and the demise of its Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) project along the Columbia River in Oregon, executives at two remaining LNG projects in the state told NGI earlier in May that the free-spending Texas company had a problematic site and took a questionable approach to trying to get it permitted.

In the wake of a liquidation bankruptcy filing by Houston-based NorthernStar Natural Gas and the demise of its Bradwood Landing liquefied natural gas (LNG) project along the Columbia River in Oregon (see Daily GPI, May 12; May 6), executives at two remaining LNG projects in the state told NGI Friday that the free-spending Texas company had a problematic site and took a questionable approach to trying to get it permitted.

Although the energy infrastructure remained intact, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last Tuesday declared a state of emergency for Humboldt County in the wake of the 6.5-magnitude earthquake offshore Eureka, CA, Jan. 9. Schwarzenegger cited damage along the Northern California coast, including utilities and 175 structures.

Although the energy infrastructure remains intact, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday declared a state of emergency for Humboldt County in the wake of the 6.5-magnitude earthquake offshore Eureka, CA, last Saturday. Schwarzenegger cited damage along the Northern California coast, including utilities and 175 structures.