Coast

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has told FERC that it still has several concerns regarding the route of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), specifically its plans to traverse the Monongahela and George Washington national forests.

Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) on Tuesday announced it would extend the binding open season for its Utica Marcellus Texas Pipeline (UMTP), which would carry Appalachian natural gas liquids (NGL) to the Texas Gulf Coast.

A dozen senators — 11 Democrats and one left-leaning independent, led by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) — representing eight East Coast states, are urging the Obama administration to shelve plans to open Atlantic Ocean waters to natural gas and oil drilling, which they say would unnecessarily endanger their states’ economic well being.

While divulging more details on its cost and location, privately held developer Florida East Coast Industries (FECI) on Wednesday won approval from the local zoning commission for its plans to build a $250 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility in Titusville, FL.

The British Columbia (BC) government has set out to appease environmental and native critics by banning a possibility that no one in the industry has raised: converting to oil service pipelines that were originally built for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals.

Australian Oil Co. Ltd. (AOC) is leading a newly formed joint venture (JV) pursuing the development of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on the U.S. West Coast, the Sacramento Basin-focused oil and gas producer said this week.

Backers of a combined liquefied natural gas (LNG) export and connecting major transmission pipeline project along the Oregon coast hailed the release of FERC’s draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) on Friday, calling it “another important milestone.”

The abundant supply of natural gas liquids (NGL) in the Gulf Coast region has prompted LyondellBasell to build a world-scale propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) plant on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Investors are banking on increasing U.S. onshore condensate supplies as an impetus to push for exports, but by 2015, startups in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) may back out even more waterborne crude imports than incremental tight oil supplies, Barclays Capital analysts said Friday.