Pipeline & Gas Journal articles from February 2002

Pipeline & Gas Journal archives from February 2002

Lew Bullion joins staff of P&GJ. (Newsreel).(Pipeline & Gas Journal )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Oliver Klinger III, president of Oildom Publishing Company, has announced that veteran energy writer Lew Bullion has joined the staff of Pipeline & Gas Journal as its senior editor. Bullion has 31 years of energy industry communications...

No one thrilled with FERC affiliates proposal. (Newsreel).(Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Even natural gas producers, who have been prodding FERC, have some problems with the "affiliates" proposed rule issued Oct. 26. The proposal aims to offset any competitive advantages that a transmission company marketing affiliate might have...

HARC receives 5kW fuel cell system. (Newsreel).(Houston Advanced Research Center)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Since late last year, the Houston Advanced Research Center's (HARC) Fuel Cell Initiative Advisory Committee has been working on a plan to accelerate the commercialization of fuel cells in Texas. Already involved in a number of demonstration...

Duke Energy Field Services commissions gas processing plant. (Newsreel).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Duke Energy Field Services (DEFS) recently commissioned its new Platteville, CO natural gas processing plant. The plant, located northeast of Denver, has an initial capacity of 33 MMcf/d of natural gas, and is expandable to 50 MMcf/d with...

Editor's notebook.(the Enron collapse)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... I vividly recall my first lesson about the way some companies did business right after I moved down here in 1984. I was sitting in the office of the personnel lady at Brand X newspaper in Houston. Rather innocently, I asked if the newspaper had...

Shell to buy expansion capacity at Elba Island LNG terminal. (Newsreel).(Shell Gas & Power and El Paso's Southern LNG)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Shell Gas & Power and El Paso's Southern LNG, a FERC-regulated subsidiary, recently agreed that Shell will acquire all of the additional capacity offered by Southern LNG in its recently concluded open season to expand its Elba Island liquefied...

Residential choice at Nicor Gas gets final OK. (Newsreel).(Illinois Commerce Commission approval)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Nicor Gas Customer Select program, which lets customers choose their natural gas supplier, received final approval from the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) to move from the pilot stage to a permanent program. Customer Select becomes...

Methane loss reductions saved $102 million in 2000. (Newsreel).(EPA's Natural Gas STAR Program)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The EPA's Natural Gas STAR Program has announced results of emissions control efforts during 2000, saying the program's industry partners avoided $102 million worth of emissions in that year. The EPA said the program, founded in 1993, now has...

TEPPCO partners buys Chaparral, Quanah pipelines in West Texas. (Newsreel).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Texas Eastern Products Pipeline Company, LLC, the general partner of TEPPCO Partners, L.P., signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Chaparral and Quanah pipelines from Diamond-Koch II, L.P. and Diamond-Koch III, L.P. for about $130...

Dynegy takes over Northern Natural Gas. (Newsreel).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Enron and Dynegy have agreed that Dynegy will exercise its option and assume control of Enron's Northern Natural Gas (NNG) pipeline. Dynegy will extend Enron's right to repurchase the pipeline until June 30 and pay Enron about $23 million...

Natural gas usage to rise 50% in next 20 years. (Newsreel).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Use of natural gas will grow by 50 percent during the next 20 years, making the fuel one of the fastest growing forms of energy in the United States, according to a preliminary forecast published by the U.S. energy Information Administration....

Enron in Washington. (Government Guidelines).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The 40 people who used to work at Enron's Washington office have been axed, except for about four people, all of whom work on pipeline issues, and all of whom work out of their homes, or temporary offices. Enron's disappearing act may be...

Movement on pipeline safety. (Government Guidelines).(United States House laws)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... After a year of dragging its feet, the House will move quickly in 2002 to pass a pipeline safety bill. The two Republican chairmen of the two House committees with jurisdiction introduced a bill the day before Congress went out of session last...

Senate bill has financial incentives for Alaska pipeline. (Government Guidelines).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The energy bill which will come to the floor of the Senate sometime this winter has a provision which authorizes a federal guarantee for up to 80 percent of the value of any loan up to $10 billion obtained by the builders of an Alaskan natural...

Salt cavern gas storage and 300-mile pipeline planned in U.S. southwest. (Projects).(Desert Crossing Gas Storage and Transportation System LLC )(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... A salt cavern natural gas storage facility and 300-mile pipeline with strategic connections to the four major supply basins serving the western United States is planned by Desert Crossing Gas Storage and Transportation System LLC (DCGSTS). ...

Regulators give positive nod to interstate pipeline. (Projects).(In Connecticut and Long Island)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Islander East Pipeline Company L.L.C. won a positive preliminary determination from federal regulators to build, own and operate a 50- mile, 24-inch diameter interstate natural gas pipeline in Connecticut and on Long Island, NY. A companion...

FERC approves Eastchester expansion project. (Projects).(Iroquois Pipeline Operating Co. will build a gas pipe;ine extension from Long Island to New York)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Iroquois Pipeline Operating Company recently won FERC approval to construct a $170 million gas pipeline extension from Long Island to New York City. The Eastchester expansion is designed to transport 230 MMcf/d of gas from Western Canada to the...

Maritimes-Algonquin pipeline connection approved. (Projects).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the connection of the 650-mile Maritimes pipeline with the 1,000-mile Algonquin line to move gas from off the coast of eastern Canada to the U.S. northeast. The Phase III and HubLine...

Work begins on 714-km Tasmanian pipeline. (Projects).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Duke Energy International (DEI) has awarded a construction contract for the Five Mile Bluff to Port Latta portion of the Tasmanian Gas Pipeline to McConnell Dowell Constructors (Australia) Pty Ltd. McConnell Dowell--an international...

Gulfstream revises construction schedule. (Projects).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC is seeking permission from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to bring its on and offshore Gulfstream pipeline project on stream in two phases. Work on the Gulfstream pipeline began last summer when...

NIPSCO completes gas delivery stations in Indiana. (Projects).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO) recently completed three new natural gas delivery stations in Indiana. Combined, the three stations have the capacity to deliver a total of 1.145 Bcf/d through NIPSCO's system, or enough to serve...

FERC approves 70-mile NGPC pipeline project. (Projects).(Natural Gas Pipeline Company)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Kinder Morgan's subsidiary, Natural Gas Pipeline Company (NGPC), has federal regulatory approval to construct a 70-mile, 36-inch diameter pipeline from Joliet to McHenry County, IL. There will be 8,900 hp of compression added. Horizon will also...

3,200-km PNG gas pipeline project remains on hold. (Projects).(Santos Ltd. will pull out of the Papua New Guinea Gas Project)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Project delays resulting from the multi-national partners being unable to resolve issues has prompted Santos Ltd. to pull out of the planned 3,200-km Papua New Guinea (PNG) Gas Project. In a press released issued Jan. 2, Santos Ltd....

Millennium ready for construction. (Projects).(Millennium pipeline in New York)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... After four years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order in December authorizing the construction/operation of the Millennium pipeline, which will transport 700 MMcf/d of natural gas to meet New York's growing energy needs....

Royal Dutch/Shell, Petrochina sign pipeline pact. (International Highlights).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... PetroChina and Royal Dutch/Shell Group have signed a preliminary deal to lay a 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) natural gas trunkline from the west to the east of China. The agreement, signed Dec. 31 in Belling, included joint exploration and...

CMS sells interests in Equatorial Guinea to Marathon. (International Highlights).(CMS Energy Corp.)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... CMS Energy Corporation has closed with Marathon Oil Company on the previously announced sale of all of CMS' ownership interests in Equatorial Guinea, West Africa, for approximately $1 billion. Included in the sale are all of CMS Oil & Gas...

UAE, Qatar sign historic $3.5 billion gas agreement. (International Highlights).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Qatar and the Dolphin joint venture - linking the UAE Offsets Group and TotalFinaElf - signed a contract to produce Qatari gas for transmission across the Gulf to Abu Dhabi. The 25-year agreement establishes a project which could see Qatari gas...

Link through Algeria could bring Nigerian gas to Europe. (International Highlights).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Nigeria and Algeria have signed a memorandum of understanding, which could see Nigerian gas being exported to Europe by pipeline. The pipeline construction studies to be undertaken between the two countries will look at a route from southern...

Work on Ukraine-Poland pipeline may start soon. (International Highlights).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Construction work on the Polish stretch of a pipeline carrying Caspian Sea oil from Ukraine to Poland may start in six months' time provided the project's financing is secured on time. Construction of the pipeline from Brody near the...

Metso Automation to install 2 SCADA units in China. (International Highlights).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Metso Automation has won two major contracts for SCADA systems from the Lan-Cheng-Yu Project Department of PetroChina Company Ltd. The projects are the Lan-Cheng-Yu Liquid Products Pipeline and the LangFang National Control Center. Metso said...

Papua New Guinea-Queensland prospect improves. (International Highlights).(The Papua New Guinea to Queensland gas pipeline)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Delays and renegotiations over development of the Timor Sea's Greater Sunrise gas reserves may stall production for several years. These delays, in addition to new markets opening up in Queensland, have improved prospects for the rapid...

Changing market conditions concerns construction contractors. (Annual Contractor's Round Table).(Panel Discussion)
February 1, 2002... Q. How do you perceive the love-hate relationship that exists between gas utilities and contractors? What market segments will your company focus on in the near term to increase market share? Loftis: I think the love-hate relationship has...

Automation cuts operating costs by 25 percent on major gathering system. (Expansion Proves Profitable).(American Central Gas)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Competitive challenge. When American Central Gas initiated a large expansion of their gathering system in Panola County, Texas, they were faced with a major competitive challenge. Production in the giant gas field surrounding Carthage, Texas,...

Evolving middleware architecture heightens profit potential. (Potential Of SCADA).
February 1, 2002... Many industry analysts firmly believe that SCADA's greatest ROI potential lies in its ability to reduce system operating costs, increasing profit opportunities for internal and external customers. To achieve these objectives, corporations...

Kazakhstan manages its domestic pipeline network. (`New Silk Road').(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Second only to Russia as an oil producer among the former Soviet republics, Kazakhstan produces nearly 700,000 bpd, but could produce over 3 million bpd. One of the constraints restricting Kazakhstan's production potential is the lack of...

What's new in telecommunications/SCADA/measurement/specialty buildings. (Product & System Innovations).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Pipeline & Gas Journal's What's New editorial feature includes coverage of several companies exhibiting at this year's ENTELEC conference and exhibition. ENTELEC 2002 will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, April 7-10....

Dominion finds automation system well-suited for storage. (Reliability Improves).(receives programmable logic controllers from Schneider Electric)(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... When your company owns the world's largest natural gas storage system, and when you're responsible for delivering that energy to customers in six states, you have to appreciate reliability. As Dominion Transmission Inc. Automation and Control...

South African liquids network updated with process control solution. (Improving Efficiency, Cutting Cost).(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Petronet, South Africa's liquid petroleum and refined products distribution company, has achieved a 40 percent improvement in efficiency by automating its 1,864-mile (3,000-km) pipeline network that serves about 80 percent of the nation's...

Williams -- Texas Gas Transmission cuts operating costs with HMI/SCADA system. (SCADA Technology).(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2002... Williams cut operating costs for its Texas Gas Transmission pipeline by $5 million/year by installing a Citect HMI/SCADA system to monitor all pipeline operations. With the new human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data...

Mathey Dearman.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Pipe cutting, beveling and alignment equipment manufactured by Mathey Dearman is featured in a comprehensive 12-page product brochure. The brochure features pipe cutting and beveling machines, pipe alignment and reforming clamps, welding...

Westex Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A 20-page brochure is offered by Westex Inc. on the company's INDURA Ultra Soft[R] flame-resistant fabrics. New flash fire exposure test data is presented along with tests results for electric arc exposures and how these relate to the new NFPA...

Detcon Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Detcon recently introduced the Model 880 Network Control System to serve as a host monitoring and control system for serial networks of gas detection and other devices. The 880 monitors 80 or more devices, displaying device status, programmable...

Reed Manufacturing Company.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Reed's ratchet shears and scissor shears for plastic are featured in a new brochure, along with more of the company's extensive plastic pipe tools for professions. Find the right plastic pipe/tubing cutter among the growing line of shears. All...

Industrial Scientific Corporation.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Industrial Scientific is offering a low-cost combustible gas leak detector. The new pocket-sized instrument is designed to provide a go/no-go indication of leaking natural gas (methane) in a variety of applications. For applications that demand...

Trinity Fitting Group Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Trinity Fitting Group that produces specialty butt weld fittings for gas transmission and distribution systems, compressor and pumping stations, power generation and LNG facilities offers a two-page data sheet. Detailed information is...

Girard Industries.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Girard Industries, a leading manufacturer of pipeline cleaning pigs and spheres for more than 30 years, recently began manufacturing a new sphere for use in 30-inch pipelines and meter provers. The new sphere will have an actual outside...

Dow Plastics.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Dow Plastics recently introduced a new line of Dow high-density polyethylene (HDPE) resins that offer outstanding performance attributes for pressure pipe applications. Using Dow HDPE resins, pipe producers can meet or exceed all existing...

Pferd Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Many surface cleaning, preparation and roughing tasks formerly performed by grinding tools or power brushes can be better handled with the new Policlean family of non-woven synthetic fabric cleaning wheels from Pferd. Designed to work on...

McGuffy Industries.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A new eight-page brochure from McGuffy Industries outlines their products and services offered to operators, packagers and large rotating equipment users in the pipeline, power and process industries. Gas turbine, steam turbine and general...

C&C Technologies.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... C&C Technologies, Inc. reported an outstanding year of accomplishment for its HUGIN 3000 AUV. Since beginning commercial operations in January 2001 for BP, C&C has completed over 5,500 miles of AUV survey lines. The projects completed with the...

Wellogix Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Wellogix has upgraded its online service with the addition of five new tools to its workflow enhancement software: a Collaboration Manager to improve communication during the specification of complex products and services; advanced Technical...

Krautkramer Ultrasonic Systems.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Krautkramer Ultrasonic Systems is offering a software development kit (SDK) designed to reduce the labor and cost of integrating third-party software programs with Krautkramer instrument data records. The SDK is a complete documentation kit...

Fischer Technology.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A new eight-page catalog from Fischer Technology describes all the features and advantages of the FISCHER-SCOPE[R] H100C measuring system with breakthrough technology for measuring microhardness and evaluating material properties. The catalog...

iPek Special-TV Gesmhb & Co. KG.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... The Power Spot lamp from iPEK is expected to find application in the pipeline sector. Developers say this special lamp with a Xenon-light and powered by batteries can illuminate large pipes. The lamp, made from stainless steel and aluminium, is...

Lovejoy Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A new 24-page catalog from Lovejoy details elastomeric curved jaw couplings recently introduced in a wide selection of sizes, styles and mounting for all types of industrial machinery. Metric data tables cross-reference coupling sizes,...

Cummins Power Generation.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... New 30kW and 60 kW microturbines from Cummins Power Generation are being introduced as the first products in a new turbine generator line to complement its diesel and natural gas reciprocating engine powered generators. Applications suitable...

Hoffer Flow Controls Inc.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... A two-page data sheet from Hoffer Flow Controls describes the company's insertion flowmeters for leak detection in pipelines. Typically accuracies of 1% may be reached with the HP insertion and can approach + 0.25 percent depending on the type...

Peabody Engineering.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Peabody Engineering, a division of Hamworthy Combustion Engineering Group, recently entered into an agreement with Gas Technology Institute (GTI) to develop a multi-fuel ultra-low N[O.sub.x] burner, based on the patented GTI Forced Internal...

Officials of the American Gas Association (AGA).(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Officials of the American Gas Association (AGA) say they find a proposal by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to govern interactions among employees of companies affiliated with interstate natural gas and electric transmission...

Willbros Engineers Inc.(Lonnie Hamilton promoted to vice president of business development)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Willbros Engineers Inc., Tulsa, OK, an operating unit of the Willbros Group Inc., has promoted Lonnie Hamilton to vice president of business development. Hamilton has over 23 years of business and project development experience in the oil and...

ONDEO Nalco Energy Services L.P. (ONES).(Mark L. Bosanko, new president)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Mark L. Bosanko has been named group vice president and president of ONDEO Nalco Energy Services L.P. (ONES). He assumed the position previously held by Jack A. Shubert, who has been promoted to group vice president and president of ONDEO...

Perfection Corporation.(Jim Hansen, new regional sales manager)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Perfection Corporation, Madison, OH, has named Jim Hansen regional sales manager for gas products. In this position, he is responsible for the sale of the company's gas distribution products in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States.

Ziff Energy Group.(Kenneth R. Becker, new vice president)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Ziff Energy Group has appointed Kenneth R. Becker as vice president, offshore. In this capacity Becker will be responsible for managing and expanding Ziff Energy's offshore benchmarking studies and consulting services worldwide. In addition to...

Williams' Gas Pipeline Division.(Doug Whisenant, new president and CEO)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Doug Whisenant has been promoted to president and CEO of Williams' Gas Pipeline Division. Prior to accepting his new position, Whisenant was senior vice president and general manager of the company's gas pipelines in the western United States...

Semco Energy Inc.(John E. Schneider, new CFO)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... John E. Schneider is the new CFO of Semco Energy Inc. Schneider had been executive vice president and COO of Semco Energy Gas Company, the Michigan division of the company's natural gas distribution utility, since February 2001.

AnTech Ltd.(Clair Brown hires Clair Brown as development engineer)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Clair Brown has been named development engineer of the special engineering projects department at UK-based AnTech Ltd. In her new position, Brown will serve as project engineer spearheading the development of COLT, AnTech's suite of...

Landmark Graphics Corp.(to jointly market GeoProbeO and SGI Reality Center)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Landmark Graphics Corp., a wholly owned business unit of Halliburton Company and Silicon Graphics (SGI), recently finalized an agreement to jointly market GeoProbeO software and SGI[R] Reality Center[TM] facilities. The GeoProbe software was...

PG&E Corporation's PG&E Gas Transmission Northwest Corporation (GTN).(40 years of operation)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... PORTLAND, OR-based PG&E Corporation's PG&E Gas Transmission Northwest Corporation (GTN) recently celebrated 40 years of operation. "For four decades, GTN has provided unparalleled service to energy consumers across the west, growing to meet new...

Pegasus International (UK) Ltd.(engineering contract with Talisman)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Pegasus International (UK) Ltd. (formerly Mentor Project Engineering Ltd.) has been awarded a contract to provide detail design engineering for Talisman's Kildrummy field. Located in the UK North Sea, the field will be developed as a subsea...

Meetings: upcoming events.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... February 18-21, NACE Northern Western Area Conference, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Phone: (780) 468-7604; Fax: (780) 469-5910. February 19-21, Energy Trading in the New Economy Conference & Exposition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Web:...

Production gains unseen as gas demands falls 5%. (From the burner tip...: a close-up look at the natural gas business).(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2002... Everyone always thinks a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes a picture can be downright misleading! Figure 1 is a graph showing U.S. production of natural gas (dry gas production) and the active drilling rig count (gas rigs only) for...