Construction

Enterprise Products Partners LP on Thursday pulled the trigger to build a second propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant at its Mont Belvieu complex in Texas, in partnership with petrochemical giant LyondellBasell Industries NV.

The Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion plans to resume a year after an appellate court verdict required a second project review and approval by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) and federal cabinet.

The value of construction contracts for Canada’s first entry into global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade has reached C$4.7 billion ($3.5 billion) after LNG Canada announced initial work awards for its terminal underway on the west coast.

After roughly two years of delays, Energy Transfer LP (ET) said partial service began last Saturday on the Mariner East (ME) 2 pipeline.

Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) on Thursday reaffirmed that it’s on track to meet a targeted late 2019 in-service date, announcing that it now expects to have 70% of the project finished by the end of this year.

More legal fronts opened last week for the Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley (MVP) pipelines in what’s become a saga for the Appalachian shale gas takeaway projects that continue to face rising costs and delays.

Preliminary work that stops short of physical construction can continue on the hotly contested Keystone XL pipeline project while a court-ordered additional environmental assessment proceeds, Montana District Judge Brian Morris ruled on Thursday.

Sunoco Pipeline LP is fighting another emergency petition filed by seven Pennsylvania residents with the state Public Utility Commission (PUC) to stop operations on the entire Mariner East (ME) system.

Work on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) has again been delayed after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Monday stayed federal authorizations that could continue to slow a project that would move 1.5 Bcf/d of natural gas from Appalachian shale fields.