The Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage field, the state’s largest, may have to be shut 
down, the president of the California Public Utilities Commission said. His agency has approved gas and electric power conservation efforts aimed at avoiding power outages.
A four-month leak from the 3,600-acre facility operated by Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), which was halted in February, has resulted in problems that the state’s energy utilities will have to deal with for an extended period of time, said CPUC President Michael Picker.
aimed at preventing incidents such as the 2010 Deep Horizon blowout and mitigating any spills that do occur. The final rule amends regulations issued in April of last year.
restore operations at its Torrance refinery, which had been operating at about 20% capacity following an explosion there in February of last year.
The California Energy Commission approved $4.3 million in grants for projects to increase the efficiency of natural gas technology used in industrial, agriculture and water processes, and more than $40 million in other energy-efficiency projects.
to be added in the oil, natural gas and petrochemical industries by 2035, according to a new report from the American Petroleum Institute.