Category: Natural gas

Kinder Morgan providing storage facilities for new methanol plant

Pipeline-and-energy storage king Kinder Morgan announced on Monday plans a new long-term contract with Methanex Corporation to store the company’s methanol at its Geismar, La terminal.  More »

Dominion moves ahead with Maryland gas export project

Some consumer advocates have opposed large-scale exportation of natural gas, saying it could increase prices for U.S. customers.  More »

Bahrain seeks more gas as it plans first LNG unit

Bahrain plans to boost output of natural gas by tapping deep reserves and build a terminal to import liquefied gas, the head of its state-owned energy investment holding company said.  More »

Anadarko’s plant nears completion

The Anadarko plant is part of a wave of midstream development in the region – the system of gathering facilities, pipelines and processing plants that carries oil and gas to market.  More »

Israel faces geopolitical tangle with natural gas

Recent discoveries of massive offshore natural gas deposits, set to begin flowing in the coming days, are turning into a mixed blessing for Israel.  More »

Quicksilver selling stake in Barnett Shale assets

Natural gas producer Quicksilver Resources Inc. is selling a 25 percent stake in its Barnett Shale oil and gas assets to a subsidiary of Tokyo Gas Co. for $485 million.  More »

Gas rig count declines to near 14-year low

The U.S. gas rig count has shrunk to almost a fourth of its peak in September 2008 as a glut of domestic supplies pushed prices of the fuel down to 10-year lows and drove energy producers toward more profitable oil and liquids-rich plays.  More »

Chevron signs a 20-year deal to ship LNG

A major Japanese electric company will buy 1 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year from a massive Chevron project in Australia, in a 20-year deal announced Thursday.  More »

Policy key to growing natural gas demand, new ANGA chief says

Martin Durbin, the newly tapped CEO for America’s Natural Gas Alliance, told FuelFix in a Wednesday interview that natural gas producers need to do more work in state legislatures and on Capitol Hill to advance policies that will grow demand for the fossil fuel.  More »

Natural gas pipeline construction plummets

New natural gas pipeline construction sagged in 2012, with the nation adding its lowest total of new pipeline mileage since 1997, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.  More »

PG&E exec: ‘No one ever thought it could happen to us’

Nick Stavropoulos, executive vice president of gas operations for Pacific Gas and Electric Co., offered a sobering reminder of the risks of carrying volatile hydrocarbons by pipeline through populated areas.  More »

Judge sides with Wyoming in fracking chemical suit

A judge in Casper has sided with the state of Wyoming and ruled against environmentalists who sought to obtain lists of the ingredients that go into hydraulic fracturing fluids.  More »