Infrastructure

Williams CEO Alan Armstrong on Thursday downplayed Williams Partners LP’s gathering contract exposure to troubled producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. and said Chesapeake has been paying its bills.

Engineers from California’s Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) on Thursday confirmed that the nearly four-month-old leaking natural gas storage well in Southern California has now been permanently sealed.

Utah officials have reviewed proposed changes to Magnum Gas Storage LLC’s plans to construct, own and operate a natural gas storage facility and a major pipeline header system in western Utah, and the state supports the project, according to documents filed at FERC.

A bipartisan group of governors from 17 states on Tuesday announced the formation of a clean energy accord that they see as a multi-state economic development tool.

On Monday, Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) began a multi-day process of permanently sealing the leaking natural gas storage well at its Aliso Canyon facility in far north-suburban Los Angeles.

Environmental activists on Tuesday stormed the San Francisco headquarters of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to demand that a dozen natural gas storage facilities in the state be closed in the wake of a four-month-old storage well leak in Southern California (see Daily GPI,Feb. 16).

Officials with Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC (ACP) said Friday that they have developed an alternative route through the Monongahela and George Washington national forests in Virginia and West Virginia after their previous route was rejected by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).

Renewable natural gas (RNG) sales for Newport Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. more than doubled last year as part of its fueling options in the natural gas vehicle (NGV) sector.

Chicago-based Invenergy LLC wants to develop another natural gas-fired power plant in Pennsylvania and is gauging interest for a facility about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh.