Explosion

Even as natural gas pipeline operators take action to balance system capacity with an oversupply of natural gas flooding the market, prices at the SoCal Citygate have consistently held a substantial premium to values at nearby delivery locations, prompting the question, why? Spot prices at SoCal Citygate averaged less than $1.00/MMBtu above the Henry Hub…

Freeport LNG Development LP said Friday that it now expects to restart its export terminal on the upper Texas coast sometime around the end of the year, pushing back a previous estimate for mid-December issued last month by roughly two weeks. Spokesperson Heather Browne said the company received several key regulatory approvals Thursday that “allow…

A manufacturing defect, a degraded coating and an ineffective corrosion prevention system contributed to a fatal explosion and fire on Enbridge Inc.’s Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) natural gas pipeline near Danville, KY, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said last week. The August 2019 Tetco Line 15 rupture and subsequent fire caused one death and…

Energy Transfer LP on Thursday shut in a 0.2 Bcf/d capacity, 24-inch diameter natural gas transmission line, which moves supply from the Permian Basin, after a fire was reported before noon in a rural area of Fort Bend County, near Houston. A company spokesperson confirmed to NGI that the fire occurred around 11:15 a.m. CT,…

Representatives with the liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Texas that suffered an explosion last week, Freeport LNG, said early Tuesday that the company does not expect the export facility to be fully repaired for months.  The company is now targeting late 2022 for a return to full service instead of the initial guidance of…

The Freeport liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Texas is expected to be offline for at least three weeks after an explosion rocked the facility Wednesday morning, dealing a blow to a global gas market already short on supplies. State and federal agencies, including the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, are aiding Freeport…

Mexican state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) had restored 71,000 b/d of the roughly 421,000 b/d of oil production knocked offline by a fatal offshore platform fire as of Tuesday evening, according to CEO Octavio Romero Oropeza. In a video message posted late Tuesday night, Romero said Pemex expected to restore an additional 110,000 b/d…

Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) said Monday the segment of the El Paso Natural Gas Pipeline that experienced a pipeline failure and subsequent fire over the weekend, killing two people, had been extinguished. The blast occurred at around 5:45 a.m. MT Sunday on Line 2000, near Coolidge, AZ. Two people died in the blast, and one…

The charitable arm of NiSource Inc., whose Massachusetts subsidiary was blamed for a series of natural gas pipeline explosions in 2018, is providing $10 million to support nonprofits in the three communities impacted by the tragedy. The NiSource Charitable Foundation, the parent company of Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, said the grants for up to $250,000…