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Black Hills Corp. and Great Plains Energy Inc. closed their asset purchase and merger of Aquila Inc. last Monday, the companies said. The closing was effective last Monday for legal, accounting and operational purposes.

Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC remains on schedule to complete the 182-mile-long, 30-inch diameter natural gas pipeline across New York’s Southern Tier and lower Hudson Valley by November, the company said. More than 90% of the pipeline is expected to be installed within or next to existing pipeline rights-of-way. Millennium, which would transport up to 525,400 Dth/d when it goes in service, is the centerpiece of a $1 billion investment in new energy infrastructure that includes new facilities by Empire Pipeline, Algonquin Gas Transmission and Iroquois Gas Transmission. The pipeline is anchored by National Grid, Consolidated Edison of New York, Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corp. and Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. Millennium is jointly owned by affiliates of NiSource Inc., National Grid and DTE Energy. Construction on the pipeline was begun last year with the installation of 12 miles of pipeline, mostly in New York’s Orange and Rockland counties (see NGI, May 12). Most of the mainline pipeline installation work, however, is scheduled to be completed this year to meet the targeted November in-service date. Some land restoration and environmental monitoring work is expected to extend into 2009 and beyond, Millennium said. More than 2,000 workers — many of them hired locally — were to be involved in the construction project. Houston-based U.S. Pipeline Inc. is the pipeline contractor, and Precision Pipeline LLC of Eau Claire, WI, is installing horizontal directional drill crossings below selected rivers, streams and roadways.

Energy Transfer Partners LP’s (ETP) Southeast Bossier 42-inch diameter gas pipeline project in East Texas is now complete and ready to serve producers in the gas-rich Barnett Shale, the company said. The $468 million project consists of more than 150 miles of pipeline from Farrar, TX, to Silsbee, TX.

With construction of their liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on Quintana Island in Brazoria County, TX, almost complete, backers of the Freeport LNG facility hosted a media day last Tuesday to tout the safety of their regasification facility.

With construction of their liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on Quintana Island in Brazoria County, TX, almost complete, backers of the Freeport LNG facility hosted a media day Tuesday to tout the safety of their regasification facility.

Transwestern said it would complete resolution of a force majeure event at Compressor Station 2 near Flagstaff, AZ (see Daily GPI, March 18) by Thursday evening and was accepting Timely cycle nominations for Friday’s gas day on its Thoreau/West system up to the normal capacity of 1,220,000 MMBtu/d.

Ingleside Energy Center LLC and San Patricio Pipeline LLC Thursday asked FERC for an extension until April 30, 2011 to complete construction on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Texas and its associated pipeline.

Ingleside Energy Center LLC and San Patricio Pipeline LLC last Thursday asked FERC for an extension until April 30, 2011 to complete construction on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Texas and its associated pipeline.

TransColorado expects to complete repairs sometime Thursday on an unspecified force majeure event that occurred Sunday at Whitewater Compressor Station in Mesa County, CO. Flows for the gas days of Sunday and Monday were not impacted, TransColorado said, but effective Tuesday until further notice, it will limit volumes through Segments 220 and 240 to 362,000 Dth/d and 412,000 Dth/d, respectively. “At this level of scheduled quantities, AOR/IT, secondary [and] primary FT quantities are at risk of not being fully scheduled,” the pipeline said, adding that as the repairs progress, additional scheduled quantities may become available on an intraday basis. TransColorado reminded customers that maintenance at Whitewater and Dolores compressor stations is still set for Wednesday and has an additional impact on those segments. Capacity for Wednesday’s gas day through Segment 220 will be limited to 350,000 Dth and capacity through Segment 240 will be limited to 400,000 Dth.