Calgary Herald.  Mexican authorities have awarded TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) another natural gas pipeline contract.  The Calgary-based company said Monday that it will invest about US$400 million in a 413-kilometre pipeline between El Oro and Mazatlan, near Mexico’s west coast.

Thoughts on Alaska Oil and Gas, by Brad Keithley.  Rare unanimity of opinion: Vote No on Bonding Proposition A | "Think about it. When have the editorial pages of the Anchorage Daily News and the Anchorage Daily Planet, not to mention Dermot Cole and the Anchorage Daily Planet, ever agreed on anything. The fact that they have on this issue is meaningful. The Fairbanks News Miner seals the deal. Vote No on Bonding Proposition A.

Alan Bailey (NGP Photo) of Petroleum News provided a thorough summary of the current Colleen Starring, Cook Inlet Storage, Enstar Natural Gas, Alaska, AGIA, ACES, RCA, CINGSA, Photo by Dave HarbourSouthcentral Alaska gas Alan Bailey, Petroleum News, Southcentral Alaska gas supply, Cook Inlet Gas, Alaska, Bakkan, ACES, AGIA, Photo by Dave Harboursupply outlook–and the outlook is daunting.  We predicted this situation in 2006 while there was a wonderful window of opportunity for securing all necessary firm gas supplies through 2016.  

As to the current status, Bailey quotes a number of experts in his article, including Enstar’s Colleen Starring (NGO Photo).  -dh

Enstar Natural Gas Co., the main Southcentral gas utility, now depends on CINGSA gas to meet its winter needs. Colleen Starring, president of Enstar, told the commission that with 91 million cubic feet per day of deliverability contracted with CINGSA, on top of the some 248 million cubic feet per day under contract with gas producers, Enstar anticipates having sufficient gas to meet demand during the coldest weather in the coming winter.  

 “With the addition of CINGSA … we’ll be able to meet all of the requirements,” Starring said.

But with a gas supply contract with Marathon ending on Dec. 31 and the guaranteed volume of supplies from a contract with Hilcorp lowering at the same time, Enstar is short of gas under contract in 2013.
 
“So in 2013 we’re about 4.5 to 5 billion cubic feet short of our overall volumetric requirements of right around 34.2 (bcf) … and then that gap continues to grow,” Starring said. “We have been in perpetual negotiation with any and all comers to replace that gas.”   (Read more)