08.19.2008 | By Johnathan Rickman
A federal appeals court has upheld a finding by FERC that the planned expansion of Dominion's Cove Point liquefied natural gas facility in Maryland will not increase leakage in Washington Gas & Light Co.'s distribution system because the problem is due to...
08.14.2008 | By Johnathan Rickman
In an order U.S. regulators deemed "practical" and in the public interest, FERC last week approved Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Inc.'s request to acquire existing oil wells and all mineral rights and leases--through eminent domain if...
08.14.2008
Citing a "critical, immediate need for capacity" to allow more natural gas from the booming Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and other Appalachian reserves to flow to market, NiSource Inc. unit Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. and...
08.07.2008
Venezuela's state-owned oil and natural gas company and Russia's OAO Gazprom last week signed a cooperative agreement enlisting Gazprom's Latin American subsidiary in certifying the reserves of a southeast Venezuelan oil tract that Gazprom says is...
08.06.2008
David Collyer, currently the president of Shell Canada Ltd., has been appointed the new president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canada's top oil and natural gas trade group. The appointment, announced by the Canadian Association of...
08.05.2008
In what Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin referred to as an "historic" event in her state's history, Alaskan lawmakers last week advanced TransCanada Corp.'s proposal to build a 1,715- mile natural gas pipeline designed to deliver Alaska gas from Prudhoe Bay...
08.05.2008
TECO Energy announced Monday that it is forming a new subsidiary to develop and own a high-volume Florida intrastate natural gas pipeline that would connect to the interstate Florida Gas. Transmission and Southern Natural gas pipelines and help distribute gas...
08.04.2008 | By Chris Holly
Moving to break the political logjam that has blocked energy legislation in the Senate, a bipartisan group of 10 senators Friday unveiled an $84 billion compromise plan aimed at reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil, including a proposal to lift...
08.04.2008
James Hoecker, a former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is joining Husch Blackwell Sanders' Washington, D.C., office as a senior counsel focusing primarily on emerging markets in the...
07.31.2008 | By Johnathan Rickman
In yet another move by the Bush administration to pressure Democrats to lift a congressional ban on drilling in many U.S. offshore areas, the Interior Department announced Wednesday it was launching development of a new five-year Outer Continental Shelf...
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