In what will be the final lease sale under the existing five-year Outer Continental Shelf plan, Interior Department last Thursday said it would make available to producers in June all unleased areas in the Central Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, including 7,276 blocks on about 38.6 million acres.
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Both Upgraded and New Pipelines Needed, PG&E CEO Says
The U.S. shale gas boom has put pressure on the natural gas industry nationally to upgrade and build new pipeline capacity to service what are anticipated to be growing markets for gas-fired electric generation and use of gas as a transportation fuel, the CEO at Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) Tony Earley said Monday in advance of the PG&E annual shareholders meeting in San Francisco.
May 15, 2012
NRDC Report Calls For Frack Water Restrictions
Focusing on the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) on Wednesday made a pitch for more rules to cover the handling of wastewater produced in hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with the release of a new NRDC report.
May 11, 2012
Wyoming Governor Eyes Pipe Corridors to Facilitate EOR
Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead on Tuesday kicked off what he hopes will be a public discussion on the establishment of a network of carbon dioxide (CO2) pipeline corridors that ultimately could be used to site all other types of energy pipelines, including natural gas, oil and liquids.
May 2, 2012
U.S. LNG Import Terminals Mostly Idle, Consultant Finds
In what can only be called a sign of the times for North American imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), consultancy Pan EurAsian Enterprises Inc. said Monday it is no longer going to bother tracking daily sendout from nearly a dozen terminals. “There is a lot else going on in the world of global LNG that should be getting more of our attention,” the firm told clients in a note.
May 1, 2012
Sierra Club Files ‘Public Interest’ Protest Against LNG Export
The Sierra Club is making a last ditch effort to derail exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass LNG, and what it claims will be the consequent expansion of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) well stimulation activities should exports go forward.
April 23, 2012
Colorado County Board Criticizes BLM Oil Shale Plan
As part of what is supposed to be a three-state, multi-county action eventually, Garfield County commissioners in Colorado approved a joint resolution Monday that is highly critical of federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) scaled-back plans for oil shale development.
April 11, 2012
Environmental Groups File Fracking Complaint with Wyoming Court
A consortium of environmental groups has filed a petition with a Wyoming district court, seeking to require the state Oil and Gas Conservation Commissions to disclose information about specific chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of oil and natural gas wells that are being kept confidential for proprietary business reasons.
March 28, 2012
California Grid Likely Gassy This Summer
With 2,220 MW of nuclear power still out of service and snow pack levels at historic lows, California’s electric grid operator unveiled what it hopes is a stable summer electricity supply-demand assessment for review by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) Board of Governors.
March 22, 2012
Chesapeake, Partners Join Utica Midstream Buildout
Chesapeake Energy Corp., through affiliates of Chesapeake Midstream Development LP (CMD), is partnering with M3 Midstream LLC (Momentum) and EV Energy Partners LP to develop what it claimed will be the largest integrated midstream service complex in eastern Ohio to serve Utica Shale production.
March 16, 2012
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