Renewable energy

Seneca Resources Corporation has announced plans to complete the conversion of two of its Pennsylvania drilling rigs to cleaner-burning natural gas in an effort to displace the diesel fuel currently being used to power equipment at the well site.

Canadian oil company, Tourmaline Oil Corp. has announced that it will buy privately held oil and gas producer Huron Energy Corp to expand its Montney shale presence in British Columbia.

With construction of the 630 MW, integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) Edwardsport power plant in Indiana virtually complete, testing is under way to prepare for commercial operations next year, Duke Energy said.The plant has successfully produced electricity using natural gas, and the next phase is testing the coal-gasification equipment.

   The manufacturing division of Valtorc International, USA has been commissioned to manufacture and provide high performance automated ball valves to the Bechtel Corporation for use on a high security nuclear facility in the eastern United States.

FirstEnergy Corp. is studying natural gas pricing trends to determine if the company should convert its 1,710 MW Hatfields Ferry coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania to natural gas, according to Platts. The low NOx burners at the plant's three units are due to be replaced and the company is considering replacing them with technology that allows co-firing gas with coal, a spokesman was quoted as saying in the article.

Calpine Corporation has signed an agreement to supply electric generation capacity and power to American Electric Power Service Corporation.

 Control valve specialist Samson Controls has introduced enhanced versions of two of its established products: the Type 3291 valve and the Type 3730-6 positioner.The Type 3291 valve is suitable for use in severe operating conditions, such as those found in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries.

Valtorc International, USA manufacturing division has been commissioned to manufacture and provide manufacture and provide The Bechtel Corporation with Valtorc’s high performance automated ball valve series for use on a high security nuclear facility in the eastern United States of America.

Dominion has said it intends to pursue the sale of three fossil fuel-fired merchant power stations, one in Massachusetts and two in Illinois. One of the stations, Brayton Point Power Station, is a 1,536 MW power station in Somerset, MA with three coal-fired units and one unit fired by oil or natural gas.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP) has agreed to sell some of its Rocky Mountain natural-gas processing and pipeline assets to Tallgrass Energy Partners LP for approximately USD 1.8 billion as part of a deal with federal antitrust regulators to allow its recent acquisition of El Paso Corp.