Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC, beset by legal and regulatory hurdles that have pushed back the startup of its 303-mile, 2 million Dth/d natural gas conduit, has asked FERC for a two-year extension to bring the project online.

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Citing “unforeseen litigation and permitting delays” outside of the project’s control, MVP in a filing Tuesday with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission asked to extend the three-year deadline for completing construction stipulated in the project’s October 2017 certificate order.

Between direct challenges and “litigation associated with other infrastructure projects,” MVP has hit snags over approvals from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)...