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 [...]
Rep. Marilyn Musgrave sent a letter Tuesday asking atomic energy regulators to consider water quality as they decide whether to allow uranium mining in Larimer and Weld counties.
Musgrave, R-Colo., said she’s heard from residents concerned about water quality as a Canadian company prepares to prospect for uranium near the town of Nunn.
Powertech Uranium Corp. last [...]
Alcoa Inc. announced that it has reviewed Alcan’s continuity agreement with the Government of Quebec which identifies the requirements that Alcoa must meet regarding Alcan’s future operations in the Province in order to maintain certain of Alcan’s hydroelectric and water rights. In a letter to Alcan’s Board of Directors, Alcoa outlined the many ways in [...]
British Gas lowered its residential electricity and gas prices on Thursday in the latest salvo of a price war.
British Gas parent, utility Centrica, said the business was cutting electricity prices by 6 percent and gas prices by 3 percent. Coupled with cuts earlier this year this would reduce the average annual dual fuel bill by [...]
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 [...]
HOUSTON – 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 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 [...]
Several Texas energy companies offered Thursday to build a string of wind, gas and coal-fired power plants and transmission lines across the Panhandle that could lessen the state’s future dependence on coal while supplying enough electricity for more than a million Texas homes.
More than 15 proposals were filed with the Public Utilities Commission to [...]
MainLine Management LLC, the general partner of Buckeye GP Holdings L.P., reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2006, as well as for the full year 2006. The Partnership’s net income for the fourth quarter of 2006 was $3.0 million, or $0.11 per LP unit, compared with net income of $1.4 million reported for [...]
Southeast Supply Header, LLC (SESH) has signed three additional shippers to long-term contracts, bringing total commitments to nearly 1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), the initial proposed capacity on the new natural gas pipeline system that is anticipated to be in service by summer 2008.
Southern Company, Tampa Electric Company and EOG Resources, Inc., [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received an application from Broadwater Energy for construction projects related to its plan for an offshore liquefied natural gas terminal in Long Island Sound.
The application is to construct the yoke mooring system that would be used to anchor the LNG barge in the middle of the Sound, in [...]
