Law360, New York (August 31, 2012, 1:58 PM ET) -- A host of energy heavyweights on Wednesday asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to deny Kinetica Energy Express LLC’s $32 million bid to buy Gulf of Mexico natural gas processing and transportation infrastructure from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., saying the deal threatens long-term Gulf gas production.
According to the protest, filed by three Anadarko Petroleum Corp. units, two BP PLC units, Apache Corp., Chevron USA Inc., ConocoPhillips Co. and ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Co., TGPC’s proposed sale by abandonment of the facilities — 1,362 miles...