Materials

Continuing schedule delays — exacerbated by a ruling by the Department of Transportation Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHSMA) that ended the use of a key vapor gas dispersion model — have prompted Crown Landing LLC to ask FERC for a one-year extension to revise a permit application for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Delaware River in Gloucester County, NJ.

Continuing schedule delays — exacerbated by a ruling by the Department of Transportation Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHSMA) that ended the use of a key vapor gas dispersion model — have prompted Crown Landing LLC to ask FERC for a one-year extension to revise a permit application for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the Delaware River in Gloucester County, NJ.

A “world-class” ethane cracker and ethylene derivatives facility, fed by shale gas reserves, is being evaluated by Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP for siting in the Gulf Coast region.

Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, has requested all of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) documents related to its investigation of water well contamination in North Texas by Range Resources Corp.

Following the deadly pipeline explosion in Allentown, PA, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) Friday called on the head of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to beef up the oversight of the interstate gas pipelines that feed into Pennsylvania’s intrastate distribution infrastructure.

Manufacturing and materials required to build a proposed liquefaction and export plant at the existing Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Cameron Parish, LA, would cost more than $1.6 billion, Cheniere Energy subsidiary Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC said in a draft resource report filed with FERC.

The Pipelines Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has authorized increases in the maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) from 0.72 to 0.8 design on portions of the Midcontinent Express (MEP) and Rockies Express (REX) pipelines and on all of the Kinder Morgan Louisiana Pipeline. Additionally, Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP’s Texas Gas Transmission LLC subsidiary received authorization to operate its Fayetteville and Greenville laterals at standard operating pressures (0.72).

The Pipelines Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has authorized increases in the maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) from 0.72 to 0.8 design on portions of the Midcontinent Express (MEP) and Rockies Express (REX) pipelines and on all of the Kinder Morgan Louisiana Pipeline.

Enbridge Energy Partners LP and Atmos Pipeline and Storage LLC are holding an open season through 5 p.m. CDT Sept. 17 to solicit firm transportation for Barnett Intrastate Gas (BIG) Pipeline, which, as proposed, would carry up to 1 Bcf/d and connect Atmos’ Line X in Johnson County, TX, to Enbridge’s Double D and Clarity pipes at Bethel, TX, in Anderson County. BIG Pipeline would bridge the two companies’ systems and offer shippers access to gas supplies from the Waha, Barnett Shale, Bossier Sands and Anadarko Basin producing regions, they said. Delivery points would include market options at Enbridge’s Carthage Hub in Panola County for Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (NGPL), Texas Gas Transmission, Gulf South, Tennessee Gas Pipeline, CenterPoint and Texas Eastern Transmission. Delivery points also would be offered at Enbridge’s Southeast Texas Hub in Orange County through NGPL, Kinder Morgan Tejas, Gulf South, Kinder Morgan Texas, Trunkline Gas, Florida Gas and Entergy. For information, contact Enbridge’s Mark DeRusse at (713) 821-6195 or mark.derusse@enbridge.com; or Steve Marsh (713) 821-2084 or steve.marsh@enbridge.com; or Atmos’ Vic DeVincenzo at (214) 206-2510 or vic.devincenzo@atmosenergy.com.