Mexico Considers Overseas Investment to Ensure LNG Supply
Posted on Oct 26, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Liquefaction, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Mexico Considers Overseas Investment to Ensure LNG Supply
Reuters reports that Juan Granados Zuniga, an executive with Mexico’s Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), said that Mexico may consider investing in overseas gas wells and liquefaction projects to ensure future LNG supplies. “That’s in the long term…[p]lanning in Mexico takes a long time,” Granado Zuniga noted. CFE expects to build an LNG import...
Rhode Island Governor Praises Coast Guard Decision on Weaver’s Cove
Posted on Oct 26, 2007 in Regas Terminals & Capacity, State and Local Issues | Comments Off on Rhode Island Governor Praises Coast Guard Decision on Weaver’s Cove
Gov. Donald Carcieri (R-R.I.) has released a statement praising the recent U.S. Coast Guard decision to deny waterway suitability to the Weaver’s Cove LNG regasification project. Gov. Carcieri said, “While I understand that Rhode Island must find new sources of affordable energy, bringing liquefied natural gas up Narragansett Bay is not the...
Daily Letters to the Editor
Posted on Oct 25, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity, Technology | Comments Off on Daily Letters to the Editor
Powell River Peak (British Columbia, Canada) (opposed to WestPac LNG)Press-Register (Mobile, Ala.) (Bienville LNG)
Gazprom Selects StatoilHydro as Second Partner in Shtokman Project Development
Posted on Oct 25, 2007 in Liquefaction, Markets and Competition, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Gazprom Selects StatoilHydro as Second Partner in Shtokman Project Development
Russian gas company Gazprom announced this morning that it has selected Norwegian firm StatoilHydro to join French firm Total in co-owning the company developing and operating the Shtokman gas field. According to Bloomberg, StatoilHydro, which will own 24% of the operating company, previously had offered part of its capacity at Cove Point LNG in Maryland as part of the Shtokman...
Op-Ed: WestPac LNG Encourages Public Input
Posted on Oct 25, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Op-Ed: WestPac LNG Encourages Public Input
In an op-ed carried by the Powell River Peak (British Columbia, Canada), WestPac LNG president Mark Butler encourages members of the public to contact the company with concerns about the proposed terminal. He says that WestPac LNG is “absolutely committed to public consultation and [a] meaningful fact-based dialogue” regarding the project. Butler’s piece responds to...
Rabaska LNG Terminal Approved by Provincial Government
Posted on Oct 25, 2007 in Canada & Mexico, Regas Terminals & Capacity | Comments Off on Rabaska LNG Terminal Approved by Provincial Government
The Globe and Mail reports that the Rabaska LNG terminal proposed for a site near Quebec City has been approved by the provincial government of Quebec. The approval overrules a recent decision by the province’s Commission de protection du territoire agricole (agriculture commission) to oppose the project. Rabaska is the second LNG terminal approved by the province in recent...