Nebraska’s legislature passed legislation on Apr. 11 allowing the state’s Department of Environmental Quality to study a new proposed route for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline.It was nice to note that 44-5 is more than two-thirds.
LB 1161 passed by 44 to 5 votes, more than the two-thirds required, and suspends portions of an earlier pipeline siting law enacted late last year.
Mm ba ba de[Seriously: if this bill was simply to allow a government agency to conduct a new study, how long is this whole process going to take? If it's not a sham study, it has to take at least a year to do a comprehensive study. And 5 voted against it, even though TransCanada is going to end up paying for it.]
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Why don't we give it one more chance?
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure - that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
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The region will have lost almost half of its refining capacity in six months by July, according to data compiled by Bloomberg based on Energy Department statistics. Requests to send gasoline on Colonial Pipeline Co.’s link from the Gulf Coast to the eastern U.S. have exceeded capacity since August, company data show.From :CNNMoney:
And that could drive up gas prices, though the impact should be temporary -- eventually, refiners in the Gulf Coast, Europe or Newfoundland would seek to take advantage of the higher prices by shipping gas to needed areas. [Comment: superficial reporting -- how do they plan to get that gasoline there -- in the earlier story, gasoline requests have exceeded capacity since August, 2011.]From WesternFreePress.com: More refineries could close.
As employees of a Denver-based drilling company vigorously sprayed down oil-glazed equipment on a rig northwest of South Heart on Thursday, a concerned landowner sat quietly in a nearby pick-up and gazed at the discolored chunk of his land blanketed by an oil spill that took place the previous afternoon.At least one person concerned of the potential global effects -- the Heart River, into the Missouri, to the Mississippi , and then to the Gulf.
“I’m kind of concerned there about water contamination,” O’Bach said. “This will eventually drain into the Heart River.”We're talking maybe two bbls, most of which was sopped up by soil and vegetation.
Commission representatives estimated the spill contained one barrel of oil and one barrel of water, Rasmussen said.Thirty years of fertilizer run-off into the Heart River certainly dwarfs whatever oil might end up in Heart River.
“You have droplets of oil,” he added.
As companies have flocked to tap resources there, heavy equipment has overwhelmed roads while workers have filled up available housing. The problem is more acute in North Dakota than Montana, said Mark Williams, senior vice president of exploration and development at Whiting Petroleum Corp.Much more to the story at the link. I don't know how long the link will remain intact.
There are close to 220 drilling rigs in the Williston Basin. "We could easily double the number of rigs, purely based on resources," Williams said.
However, he guessed growth could be capped at 300 rigs in the next few years until infrastructure can catch up.
Now, fast forward:Natural gas companies have been placing enormous bets on the wells they are drilling, saying they will deliver big profits and provide a vast new source of energy for the United States.But the gas may not be as easy and cheap to extract from shale formations deep underground as the companies are saying, according to hundreds of industry e-mails and internal documents and an analysis of data from thousands of wells.
In the e-mails, energy executives, industry lawyers, state geologists and market analysts voice skepticism about lofty forecasts and question whether companies are intentionally, and even illegally, overstating the productivity of their wells and the size of their reserves. Many of these e-mails also suggest a view that is in stark contrast to more bullish public comments made by the industry, in much the same way that insiders have raised doubts about previous financial bubbles.
US natural gas reserves reached record levels in 2011 as producers found and produced more gas than was consumed, the American Gas Association said. Quantities estimated to exist as a result of drilling and completing wells reached 300 tcf, AGA said in its preliminary findings.The American Gas Association estimates US natural gas reserves reached 300 tcf in 2011.
“This ‘on-the-shelf’ inventory is the foundation, along with growing national resource estimates, that may point to as much as a 100-year gas supply in America,” AGA Pres. Dave McCurdy said on Apr. 4. “This abundance is helping to reduce prices and increase stability for our customers and also ensuring that that natural gas is America’s domestic, clean foundation fuel for now and into the future.”
The combination of reserves information and resource assessments places that future supply at 2,100 tcf or greater, according to AGA. This represents about 100 years’ of supply at current gas production rates of 22-23 tcf/year, it said.
With the prospect of domestic natural gas prices remaining low and disconnected from global oil and gas prices for foreseeable future, U.S-based manufacturers of plastics, fertilizers and other products that use natural gas as a feedstock such as Dow Chemicals, Westlake Chemical Corp., Potash, and CF Industries are set to benefit from cheap U.S. natural gas as opposed to European and Asian competitors who do not.Comments in the article regarding Valero in San Antonio are particularly interesting.
As the Bay State continues to lag behind the national average for equal women's earnings, a group of female state legislators is pressing a bill concerning equalizing pay for women in comparable jobs as men.I remember thirty to forty years ago, the argument regarding unequal pay between the sexes had more to do with the types of jobs each held, for example, policeman vs teacher.
The Bakken Crude Express Pipeline, Oneok's first foray into oil, would be able to handle as much as 200,000 barrels per day and would combine with five other proposals to offer the region the ability to ship 900,000 barrels per day.The EPP D-J pipeline to Texas, expected to be completed by the end of 2013, would initially have a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day, expandable to 230,000 barrels per day.
7:30AM Enterprise Products, Anadarko (APC) and DCP Midstream (DPM) to jointly develop new NGL Pipeline to serve colorado's Denver-Julesburg Basin: Enterprise Products Partners, Anadarko Petroleum, and DCP Midstream, announce an agreement to design and construct a new natural gas liquids pipeline that will originate in the Denver-Julesburg Basin in Weld County, Colorado and extend approximately 435 miles to Skellytown, Texas. Each party will hold a one-third interest.Political comment deleted.
6:48AM Royal Dutch Shell taking proactive measures as Gulf of Mexico sheen has been spotted: On April 11, Shell notified the National Response Center of a light sheen in the central portion of the Gulf of Mexico, between the Mars and Ursa production area. Shell has no current indication that the sheen originates from wells in either the Mars or Ursa projects. However, out of prudent caution, Shell has activated the Louisiana Responder, a Marine Spill Response Corporation vessel. At this time, the source of this sheen is unknown.Connect that dot with the problems going on off-shore Brazil and a theme is starting to develop: development of off-shore oil in western hemisphere is not going to be easy.
Producers of dry gas are in trouble. They are receiving a lot less money in the door than was budgeted, because nobody did a budget based on sub-$2.00 gas. Those that had substantial unhedged volumes will need to borrow money, sell assets and scramble to make ends meet.On April 9, I blogged:
April 9, 2012: Chesapeake raises $2.6 billion in cash; sells some non-core assets, including Oklahoma acreage to XTO.Interesting.
April 9, 2012: Chesapeake removed its hedges for 2012 and 2013 at at time when natural gas was around $4, and just before natural gas plummeted to ten-year low, around $2.00. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.