Columbia

The same day it OK’d the startup of Atlantic Sunrise, FERC authorized service on another Appalachian takeaway expansion aimed at serving the East Coast, Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s WB XPress Project.

A construction restoration project is underway in the greater Lawrence area of Massachusetts as Columbia Gas of Massachusetts aims to restart natural gas service to customers by mid-November.

Patricia M. French has been appointed as a FERC administrative law judge (ALJ), according to Chairman Kevin McIntyre. French has been an ALJ with the Social Security Administration’s Office of Disability Adjudication and Review since October 2016, and was an energy regulatory salaried shareholder in Bernstein Shur Sawyer & Nelson LLC’s energy and environmental practice group before that. French also served as chief compliance officer and division counsel for Columbia Pipeline Group and is a past vice president, assistant general counsel and chief compliance officer for Kern River Gas Transmission Co. She is a graduate of the Boston University School of Law and a member of the bars of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First and District of Columbia Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for New Hampshire, Utah, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maine.

Columbia Gas of Massachusetts is aiming to have natural gas service restored to all residential and commercial customers by Nov. 19 and has begun the “massive replacement program” of the utility’s distribution system following a series of explosions on Sept. 13 in Merrimack Valley near Boston.

Shell Canada Ltd. courted favor in environmentally sensitive British Columbia (BC) on Thursday by surrendering about 50,000 square kilometers (19,300 square miles) of offshore drilling rights to the federal government.

Columbia Gas of Massachusetts on Sunday said it would “completely replace” the natural gas distribution system in the Merrimack Valley after a series of explosions and fires last Thursday killed one man and damaged or destroyed around 80 structures.

Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s (TCO) Leach XPress pipeline was still out of service on Thursday, a week after an explosion and fire in Marshall County, WV, knocked out volumes and forced the company to issue a force majeure.

There was no more clarity on Friday about when service might be restored on Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s (TCO) Leach XPress line after an early morning explosion near Moundsville, WV, on Thursday forced the operator to cut capacity to zero, which is stirring up the Appalachian spot market.

There was no more clarity on Friday about when service might be restored on Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s (TCO) Leach XPress line after an early morning explosion near Moundsville, WV, on Thursday forced the operator to cut capacity to zero, which is stirring up the Appalachian spot market.