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Cheniere Energy Inc. is continuing its marketing push for its Sabine Pass LNG expansion project with another long-term sales and purchase agreement (SPA) that builds on its partnership with one of China’s largest private natural gas buyers. Houston-based Cheniere disclosed Monday a more than 20-year, 1.8 million metric ton/year (mmty) SPA with ENN Natural Gas…

Industry and government experts said to ensure New England has the energy resources available to ensure reliability in the winter, more natural gas infrastructure and transmission for renewables must be built.  During the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s second New England Winter Gas-Electric Forum earlier this week, half of the discussions centered around the potential closure…

Freshly optimistic following recent legislative intervention to move its long-delayed natural gas project across the finish line, Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) is now turning its attention to its Southgate extension, a recent FERC filing shows. MVP last week asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a two-year extension of time to finish construction of…

Federal energy regulators have finalized rules targeting the bulk power system’s reliability against extreme weather events that pose an “unacceptable risk to life and economic harm.” Under the rule, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) would develop reliability standards for transmission organizations to prepare for extreme weather events “for the first time,” said FERC…

Repsol SA continues to push U.S. regulators for access to confidential documents filed by Venture Global LNG Inc. detailing the prolonged commissioning process at the Calcasieu Pass export terminal that has delayed commercial operations and the delivery of cargoes under long-term contracts. In April, Madrid-based Repsol filed a motion to participate in FERC’s ongoing oversight…

FERC staff said approval of a planned expansion of the Tres Palacios natural gas storage facility in Matagorda County, TX, would not significantly affect the quality of the human environment, with appropriate mitigating measures. In the Environmental Assessment (EA) issued earlier this month, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff assessed the potential environmental effects of the…

With one South Texas LNG export project set to be sanctioned by year’s end and a bevy of other ventures underway, Glenfarne Energy Transition LLC is finding its niche by tapping into the environmentally sensitive demands of potential overseas customers that want low-carbon energy. CEO Brendan Duval, who moved from Australia to the United States…

Federal regulators last week determined that electric utilities could recover cybersecurity investments when designing rate structures, but disregarded calls to extend the favor to natural gas pipelines.  The FERC ruling stems from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s (IIJA) direction for federal agencies to secure energy infrastructure against all physical and cyber threats (No. RM22-19-000). …

The Biden administration has publicly endorsed, at least tepidly, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a development that could augur well for the beleaguered natural gas conduit’s hopes of finally completing a drawn-out construction process. In a letter to FERC sent last Friday, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm expressed support for the 303-mile, 2 million Dth/d…