Category Archives: Natural gas

Philadelphia city council blocks deal to sell municipal gas utility to UIL

The Philadelphia City Council this week told Mayor Michael Nutter it would not vote on his plan to sell the city-owned Philadelphia Gas Works to Connecticut-based UIL Holdings Corp., saying the deal would not adequately protect against job cuts at the…

 

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Jordan Cove LNG names Spomer CEO

Calgary-based Veresen Inc. has named Betsy Spomer, a former executive at BP and Amoco with substantial experience with liquefied natural gas operations, to be president and chief executive officer of the company’s Jordan Cove LNG export project in…

 

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Michigan landfill backtracks on plan to take hotter drilling waste

While Michigan regulators review state limits for accepting slightly radioactive waste produced in oil and gas drilling operations in the nearby Marcellus and Utica shale formations, the operator of the state’s only landfill that accepts the drilling…

 

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TransCanada wades into new oil sands pipe fight with Energy East launch

In the face of significant opposition from affected natural gas distributors, greens and provincial leaders in Ontario and Quebec, TransCanada Inc. filed its application with Canada’s National Energy Board Thursday for approval of its massive Energy…

 

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Ferus opens Alberta LNG fuel plant; Fortis expands BC facility

Use of liquefied natural gas for transportation and in oil and gas production took a major step forward in western Canada in late October, as Ferus Natural Gas Fuels Inc. announced the opening of its 50,000 gallon per day liquefaction plant in Alberta and…

 

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Pennsylvania legislature to review state carbon cut plan

In what appears to be the first such action by a state in response to the controversial regulation, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett last week signed legislation authorizing either chamber of the legislature to veto—temporarily—the state’s…

 

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CFTC to clarify position on contracts with ‘volumetric optionality’

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Tim Massad said Monday the agency will meet November 3 to consider changes aimed at “fine-tuning” its new derivative regulations to address concerns by energy companies and other non-financial…

 

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U.S. appellate court lifts CSAPR stay

In a move that puts the long-delayed program back in play, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit late Thursday granted an Environmental Protection Agency request to lift a three-year-old freeze on implementing a regional pollution…

 

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New research sees high methane leak rates in Bakken, Eagle Ford

In findings that suggest regional leakage rates of the heat-trapping gas are much higher than federal estimates, a new analysis concludes that methane emissions from two of the nation’s fastest-growing oil and gas production regions—the Bakken and…

 

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British Columbia lowers LNG tax rate to woo export projects

Under intense pressure from potential investors and a rapidly weakening market outlook for liquefied natural gas exports from the west coast of Canada, the government of British Columbia last week slashed its proposed tax rate on LNG production to 3.5…

 

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