Natural gas

South Hook Terminal will diversify the world’s energy portfolio and strengthen energy security in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe

LEATHERHEAD, United Kingdom -- May 12 marks the official inauguration of the South Hook3 Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) receiving terminal at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The ceremony takes place today in the presence of HM The Queen of the United Kingdom and His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar, as well as other members of both royal families.

The South Hook terminal represents a technological milestone as a part of the Qatargas 2 LNG value chain project that will make additional supplies of cleaner-burning natural gas available to the UK and the rest of Europe.    » read more »

April 28, 2009 -- SANTA FE – New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson applauded the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal’s unanimous decision today to require the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to take a hard look at the potential adverse impacts from oil and gas drilling on Otero Mesa.

“This is a major boost in our fight to protect one of New Mexico’s most ecologically valuable and unique places,” Governor Bill Richardson said. “I am pleased that the courts share our steadfast position that the public must have a voice in decisions affecting oil and gas leasing on Otero Mesa."

The Tenth Circuit Court upheld a previous ruling in federal district court that the BLM could not issue a new lease without further National Environmental Policy Act requirements.    » read more »

April 17, 2009 -- WASHINGTON—Six energy companies, in three settlements, have agreed to install pollution control equipment at a cost of over $6 million to comply with the Clean Air Act at their natural gas producing facilities in the Uinta Basin, near Vernal, Utah, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The facilities are located on the Uintah & Ouray Indian Reservation.    » read more »

Hayward, California – April 17, 2009 – Calpine Corporation (NYSE:CPN) and GE (NYSE: GE) unit GE Energy Financial Services announced today that the California Public Utilities Commission has approved an amended Power Purchase Agreement for a state-of-the-art combined-cycle natural gas power plant, Russell City Energy Center, to be built in Hayward.

The agreement calls for Russell City Energy Company, LLC -- owned 65 percent by a Calpine Corporation affiliate and 35 percent by a GE Energy Financial Services affiliate – to sell its full 600-megawatt output to Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). In addition, PG&E will supply natural gas to the plant for the entire ten-year term of the contract, which is expected to begin in mid-year 2012.    » read more »

April 13, 2009 -- United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today notified New York Governor David A. Paterson that the Secretary of Commerce has sustained New York’s objections to the application by Broadwater Energy LLC and Broadwater Pipeline LLC to construct a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit for imported Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Long Island Sound.    » read more »

WESTMINSTER -- Colorado Governor Bill Ritter today thanked Westminster-based Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association for its leadership in advancing Colorado's New Energy Economy and developing the state's solar, wind and natural-gas resources.

"Since I've been governor, you've always demonstrated a desire to move ahead," Gov. Ritter told an audience of more than 200 Tri-State officials and rural electric co-op leaders at Tri-State's annual board meeting.    » read more »

March 25, 2009 -- Washington, D.C.- The biggest public lands bill in decades cleared its final hurdle today, when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass it. The Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 safeguards millions of acres of new wilderness, protects hundreds of miles of rivers, expands trails, and keeps critical habitat in Wyoming safe from oil and gas leasing.    » read more »

March 19, 2009 -- WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today addressed the American Petroleum Institute’s board of directors. Below is the full text of his remarks as prepared:

Thank you, Larry, for that introduction. It is a pleasure to be with you today.

I also want to thank Jack Gerard, for helping bring this event together.

I am here today because you are important partners in America’s energy future. You and the men and women who work in the oil and gas industry help fuel our cars, heat our homes, and power our businesses. Oil and natural gas are, and will remain for many years to come, a cornerstone of our nation’s energy base.    » read more »

March 16, 2009 -- DENVER, CO – The Department of the Interior will hold more than 40 major lease sales for oil and natural gas development on public lands this year, which are predicted to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for American taxpayers as well as billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas to help meet the nation’s energy needs, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said today.

Salazar is also establishing the development of renewable and alternative energy sources on U.S. public lands as a Departmental priority and as a component of a comprehensive national energy strategy that will help the U.S. reduce its dependence on foreign oil.    » read more »

GE’s ‘6F’ Natural Gas Engines Increase Output up to 10% and Electrical Efficiency up to 1% in Pilot CHP Plants in the Netherlands

JENBACH, AUSTRIA -- March 16, 2009 -- GE Energy is introducing a next-generation, ultra-efficient Jenbacher ‘Type 6’ gas engine to help European Union (EU) member states comply with a directive to install new industrial, commercial and residential cogeneration systems that boost energy efficiency while reducing local fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.    » read more »

Makes Largest Commitment to Compressed Natural Gas to Date by a U.S. Company; Part of 10-Year Commitment to Spend up to $565 Million on Alternative-Fuel Vehicles

Dallas, Texas, March 11, 2009 -- Through an initiative that highlights the growing demand for cleaner domestic vehicles, AT&T* today announced plans to invest up to $565 million as part of a long-term strategy to deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles over the next 10 years. AT&T expects to spend an estimated $350 million to purchase about 8,000 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles and approximately $215 million to begin replacing its passenger cars with alternative-fuel models.    » read more »

March 5, 2009 -- WASHINGTON – Two citizens of the United Kingdom have been charged in an indictment unsealed today in the United States for their alleged participation in a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division announced. The EPC contracts to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on Bonny Island, Nigeria, were valued at more than $6 billion.    » read more »

March 05, 2009 -- NEW YORK -- Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) today announced plans to invest at record levels -- between $25 billion and $30 billion annually over the next five years -- to meet expected long-term growth in world energy demand.

“The global economy is currently experiencing a downturn, but at ExxonMobil we are focused on the long term,” Rex Tillerson, chairman and chief executive officer, said at an annual briefing for investment analysts at the New York Stock Exchange.    » read more »

February 11, 2009 -- “Ensuring reliable access to Eurasia’s energy at a reasonable price is among the most crucial strategic imperatives for Europe and, by extension, for Europe’s allies in the United States,” finds a new Council Special Report, Eurasian Energy Security. The report, authored by Jeffrey Mankoff, adjunct fellow for Russia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), addresses Europe’s overreliance on Russia as an energy supplier and proposes solutions to mitigate and eventually free Europe from its vulnerability in the energy sphere.    » read more »

Feb. 4, 2009 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Land Management would withdraw leases that were offered on 77 parcels of U.S. public land near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dinosaur National Monument, and Nine Mile Canyon. The leases on these 77 parcels are the subject of litigation in U.S. District Court.    » read more »