Q&A

How Alliance Pipeline Is Taking Advantage Of Opportunities While Dealing With Changing Market Dynamics

Shortly after Alliance Pipeline celebrated its 10th anniversary, company President and CEO, Murray Birch, and Bob Blattler, Manager, Supply Development, took time to respond to P&GJ’s questions regarding the company’s recent milestone, safety strategy, training methods, near-term challenges and a move toward becoming a multi-service pipeline.

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Koch Well Prepared For Eagle Ford Activity

The Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas is not just hot, it’s sizzling these days. A number of oil companies last year discovered huge pools of oil and gas in the region, which stretches across 24 counties. Until the Bakken play in the upper Midwest takes hold, many experts are saying that not only was the Eagle Ford the hottest oil play in the U.S. for 2011, but it’s likely just getting started.

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Dave McCurdy Brings Strong Credentials To AGA

Talk about being the right person at the right place at the right time. For Dave McCurdy and the American Gas Association, it could hardly be a better match.

Now well into his first year as head of AGA, McCurdy, 61, has stepped into a situation filled with opportunity for the natural gas industry, including the nation’s steadily growing distribution sector.

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Energy Exec Offers Bright Outlook For U.S. Energy

Breitling Oil and Gas Corp. was founded in Irving, TX in October 2004 as an independent exploration company willing to invest in state-of-the-art petroleum development throughout the United States, in particular Texas and Oklahoma.

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INGAA’s Edwards Keeps Watch On Capitol Hill

There are few Washington insiders who know more about energy legislation that Martin Edwards, Vice President of Legislative Affairs for the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA).

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Spotlight Shines On Natural Gas As World’s Fastest-growing Fuel

In the past several years, few have doubted the growing importance of natural gas in the global supply picture. In this Q&A, Bill Colton, vice president, Corporate Strategic Planning, discusses the company’s global energy outlook through 2030, and the critical role that natural gas will play in meeting energy needs.

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A Strategy To Boost Client Outcomes By Harmonizing Disciplines

The automation side of the oil and gas business may seem one of the less glamorous parts of the industry, but without the proper controls in place, energy could not be delivered safely or efficiently anywhere in the world.

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Industry Veteran Offers Trove Of Knowledge In New Job

Les Goodman recently took his 39 years of increasingly detailed and rich utility engineering and management experience to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where he is a director in the firm’s Advisory Practice offering enterprise asset management services to gas utilities and power companies.

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What’s Ahead For Transporters And Marketers of CO-2?

Kinder Morgan’s R. Tim Bradley, president of carbon dioxide (CO-2), discusses the impact the company’s new 91-mile, 10-inch CO-2 distribution pipeline and complementary facilities will have on future enhanced oil recovery operations in the region and the company’s future plans.

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Extraordinarily Safe Operations Result From Unvarying Management Attention

You might expect the folks at Koch Pipeline Company, L.P. to be in feeling pretty good about themselves and their company these days, and with good reason. In April, the company won the API Pipeline Distinguished Environmental and Safety Award in recognition of its employees having worked all of 2010 with no minor or significant injuries.

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