Wants

ONEOK Partners LP said Monday it wants to build a 440-mile natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline that would extend from southern Oklahoma through the Barnett Shale in North Texas to the Texas Gulf Coast.

Connecticut’s outspoken attorney general wants FERC to release critical information about a proposed deepwater liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal to be located off the coast of Connecticut and Long Island, without first formally filing a request and signing a non-disclosure agreement with the agency.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) wants the nation’s leading energy executives to appear at a joint Senate hearing to answer questions about why energy prices have gotten so far out of hand. As energy companies turned in record profits last week, Republicans and Democrats alike began dusting off proposals to impose taxes on the windfall profits.

Sending a message it wants both aggressiveness and cost-effectiveness in a billion-dollar utility meter-change-out proposal, the California Public Utilities Commission Thursday granted Pacific Gas and Electric Co. $49 million in pre-start-up funds — despite a staff recommendation to slash the amount to $7 million — for its proposed five-year effort to transform all of its natural gas and electricity utility customers to advanced (“smart”) metering systems.

Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski has told the North Slope producers — BP, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips — that he wants a response this week to his contract terms for an agreement on the proposed construction of a gas pipeline from the North Slope to the Lower 48 states.

In separate filings submitted to FERC, Duke Power and MidAmerican Energy proposed to implement independent grid coordinator plans. For its part, Duke Power wants the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) to serve as its independent transmission coordinator, while MidAmerican plans to contract with a yet-to-be-determined independent transmission service coordinator (TSC).

The American Public Gas Association (APGA) wants the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to make a “full and public statement” about what happened on Nov. 24, when an erroneous natural gas storage report was inadvertently released and triggered a significant rise in futures prices, a spokeswoman for the group said Monday.

ChevronTexaco Corp., which wants to build an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving and regasification terminal about eight miles off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, last week gained approval for the project from Semarnat, Mexico’s environmental agency. The oil major still needs approval from other Mexican regulatory officials, including the Comision Reguladora de Energia, before construction may begin.

The chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell Group said Thursday that the London-based major wants to contribute some of its technology efforts toward sustainable development, because energy needs by 2050 “could be two to three times more than today.”