Ruby Pipeline Shipper Receives Favorable California Regulatory Decision
El Paso Corporation announced the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has given final approval to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to proceed with an agreement announced last year to obtain 375,000 dekatherms per day of capacity on the Ruby Pipeline for the delivery of natural gas to PG&E’s gas and electric customers. The unanimous CPUC approval of this important “anchor”...
Sun Cal Energy Inc. Provides Update on a Third Deep Development Well on Its Hobart Prospect in Washita, County, Oklahoma
Sun Cal Energy Inc., an energy exploration company focused in the Southern San Joaquin Valley of California, the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma, the Breton Sound of Louisiana and the Green River Basin of Wyoming is pleased to update its shareholders that Range Production Company filed applications and obtained spacing and pooling orders for a third well on Sun Cal Energy Inc.’s Hobart Prospect in Oklahoma. Filed...
Nation’s First Application for a Revolutionary Hydrogen Fuel Electric Generating Facility With Carbon Capture and Sequestration to Be Filed Before the California Energy Commission
Hydrogen Energy International LLC, a joint venture of BP Alternative Energy and Rio Tinto, announced plans to file an AFC (Application for Certification) before the California Energy Commission on Thursday, July 31, 2008, for a proposed hydrogen fuel production facility and power plant in Kern County, California. The filing initiates a comprehensive regulatory review process and, upon approval, grants...
El Paso Corporation Announces Expansion of Raton Basin Pipeline
El Paso Corporation announced an expansion of the Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG) natural gas pipeline transmission system that serves the Raton Basin. CIG’s Raton Expansion will provide approximately 130 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of incremental firm capacity from the Las Animas County, Colo., area of the growing Raton Basin northward along the Front Range of Colorado to the Cheyenne...
Solar Thermal Electric Hybrid Power Plant
Solar MW Energy Inc. and affiliate Ecosystem Solar Electric Corp. has commenced the development of another “jewel” near Barstow’s Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, Southern California. A nominal in the aggregate of 59.4 megawatt (MW) solar thermal electric hybrid, utility-scale merchant power plant, to be sited on green field land parcel, privately owned by the developer, at the...
Arctic takes brunt in dirty fight over oil
THE world’s largest untapped oil reserves – in the Canadian Arctic – have become the new front line in the battle between environmentalists and the energy industry. Shell, a self-styled “green” energy company, is to invest billions of dollars in exploiting the Athabasca tar sands. Environmentalists say the tar sands are the world’s dirtiest oil deposits and that...
With Coal Plans Cut Back, Texas Faces Energy Gap
Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind power producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases. And now Texas faces a big hole in its electricity production, since...
Tidelands Oil & Gas Corporation Names Terry Mitchell Vice President of Liquefied Natural Gas Subsidiary
Tidelands Oil & Gas Corporation, a midstream oil and gas project development company, announced the appointment of Terry Mitchell as the new Vice President of Esperanza Energy LLC, reporting directly to James B. Smith, Tidelands’ President and Chief Executive Officer. Esperanza Energy LLC is a 100% wholly owned subsidiary of Tidelands focused exclusively on developing a Liquefied Natural...
Foothills Resources, Inc. Commences Natural Gas Production From Vicenus 1-3 Well in California
Foothills Resources, Inc. announced that commercial production has started from the Foothills California Vicenus 1-3 well in the Grizzly Bluff natural gas field in Humboldt County, California. The well was placed on production on January 15, 2007 and has been producing at daily rates between 30,000 and 180,000 cubic feet of gas and 20 barrels of formation water. The Vicenus 1-3 well reached total depth...
Duke Energy faces rising costs of coal
Westar Energy knew its coal-fired plant was in trouble. The Kansas company wanted to build a $1 billion, 800-megawatt power plant, but construction costs kept rising as global demand for steel and other materials skyrocketed. Soon $1 billion became at least $1.4 billion — costs ultimately passed to consumers. Faced with sobering numbers, the utility in January shelved the project. “We didn’t...
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