Energy On Thursday, Enbridge CEO Patrick Daniel told Reuters that the company "would prefer to supply natural gas to the Kitimat liquefied natural gas plant in British Columbia over any other export project in western Canada." That immediately raised a question in the northwest is Enbridge thinking of replacing the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline with […]
Energy The Jordan Cove Energy Project, often cited by energy industry experts as Kitimat's chief west coast rival as a liquified natural gas export project, sent a $50 filing fee to the United States Treasury on Friday, thus notifying the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that the company is seeking to export liquified natural gas […]
Energy LNG Links Post-earthquake Japan is said to be one of the main markets for liquified natural gas that will flow through the LNG terminals under construction and proposed for the port of Kitimat. Since the earthquake Japan has been making major purchases of LNG from both Qatar and Russia. The Doha, Qatar-based, Gulf Times […]
Energy The Hart Energy E&P (exploration and production) newsletter is reporting that an Overland, Kansas based company, Black & Veatch, a multi-billion dollar, employee-owned engineering firm founded in 1915, is beginning front end engineering (FEED) for the second proposed Kitimat liquified natural gas facility, BC LNG. Although no information appears on the Black & Veatch […]
The prospect of Kitimat becoming a major port for export of Liquified Natural Gas was bound eventually to spark interest in the media covering the energy sector. This week, photos of Kitimat mayor Joanne Monaghan turned up on as the lead on stories in Alberta Oil magazine and The Financial Post. In Alberta Oil's Export visions […]
Alberta Oil Three pipeline builders race to reach new markets Keystone, TMX and Gateway - radically different but equally controversial Pipelines have never been so popular. For years, the steel conduits followed unseen routes. They carried rivers of crude oil beneath city and town alike, rarely drawing so much as a passing thought from […]
Vancouver Sun Shell says it's looking at B.C. Coast for new LNG terminal Shell Canada says it is investigating the potential for a new liquid natural gas terminal to be located on the B.C. coast. Shell "is interested in, and currently exploring LNG opportunities along the B.C. coast," Stephen Doolan, of Shell's media relations department […]
Alberta Oil The case for co-operation Why Shawn Atleo and Pat Daniel should have lunch A great, though as-yet untapped, ally in the quest to deliver Alberta crude to the Far East could be Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo, who in the same Globe piece lamented the glacial pace of treaty negotiations […]
The headline from the subscription only LNG Intelligence website says More money is Canada-bound, but the proposed Kitimat, BC, liquefied natural gas export facility is not a "slam dunk," CEO Steve Farris said. (more as it comes available)
Energy Tribune Shale Gas, LNG & the Coming Impact of Wet Shale The first hint that the paradigm was not shifting so much as shattering was in 2009 when the planned Kitimat terminal in British Columbia was reborn as an export terminal. The gas would come from western Canada's Horn River and Montney shales. Pre-2009, […]