Regulatory

Wyoming’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (OGCC) on Tuesday approved revisions to the state’s wellhead natural gas flaring rules, gaining some praise and caution from environmental groups.

The Alberta government recently posted a C$500 million (US$350 million) reward for natural gas producers to co-operate with additions to petrochemical complexes in the province.

FERC staff on Friday released a favorable environmental assessment (EA) of the natural gas liquefaction and export project proposed for the existing Elba Island liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Chatham County, GA.

The backers of two separate liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals in Nova Scotia have received approvals for their facilities to source gas from the United States in order to be liquefied at their respective facilities and exported to non-free trade agreement (FTA) countries.

California regulators set new emergency requirements for natural gas and oil storage operations in the state — including requirements for testing, inspections and monitoring of all wells — in response to an emergency declaration by Gov. Jerry Brown over the Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) Aliso Canyon storage well leak earlier this year.

The U.S. Department of Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) revealed more details of its proposed rules governing flaring and venting of associated natural gas on public and tribal lands in the Federal Register on Monday.

FERC has given American Midstream LLC permission to begin construction of the Natchez Pipeline, which will replace the 90-year-old Midla pipeline system in Louisiana and Mississippi.

A group of state lawmakers in the lower house California Assembly on Wednesday unveiled an effort to change the state’s constitution to shut down the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), an institution that has come under increased political and consumer criticism in the past two years.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released proposed regulations covering methane emissions and efforts to mitigate them, particularly in light of the three-month-old natural gas storage well leak in Southern California (see Daily GPI,Jan. 29).