natural gas pipelines

Sen. Pat Toomey last week introduced a bill that would create “regulatory certainty” for all U.S. pipeline construction, including the long-delayed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). The Republican Senator representing Pennsylvania’s 15th District introduced the bill to limit regulatory and litigation delays as a result of “outdated laws,” the Senator said. Such laws would include the…

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow, in which NGI’s Patrick Rau, director of Strategy & Research, offers his expert insight into the infrastructure projects underway to accommodate rapid natural gas growth from the Haynesville Shale in Louisiana. The new capacity is moving south to the Gulf Coast, mostly…

Europe’s newest natural gas pipeline entered full service this week, bringing Poland one step closer to eliminating its reliance on Russian supplies.  The Baltic Pipe, which connects systems in Denmark, Norway and Poland, entered partial service Oct. 1. The 350 Bcf line began full operation on Wednesday. “By constructing the new gas pipeline, we are…

TC Energy Corp. is forecasting substantial earnings and volume growth from its Mexico natural gas pipeline network over the coming years, executives said Tuesday. “[T]he energy fundamentals in Mexico strongly support the need for additional gas supplies to meet growing demand across the industrial heartland in central Mexico, as well as in southern Mexico and…

Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has signed yet another deal with a private sector firm to increase natural gas transport in the country. This time it’s with French company Engie SA. The two firms will work together to expand capacity on the 483-mile, 250 MMcf/d Mayakan pipeline, in the Yucatán Peninsula. The Engie trunkline…

Natural gas imports from Canada to the western United States have increased by 4.1% so far this year versus the same period in 2021, according to new analysis by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The border-crossing points at Sumas, WA, and Eastport, ID, “principally supply metropolitan areas in the Pacific Northwest and California, where…

Iron Horse Midstream is adding another natural gas cryogenic processing plant at its 120-acre complex in Grady County, OK, in the heart of the Anadarko Basin. The Dallas-based firm said the 200 MMcf/d plant would boost natural gas processing capacity in the SCOOP/STACK (South Central Oklahoma Oil Province and Sooner Trend of the Anadarko Basin,…

TC Energy Corp. is strengthening its commercial ties with Mexico’s largest natural gas consumer and working toward the completion of multiple pipeline projects in the country. The consumer is state power company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), whose demand averages about 4 Bcf/d, nearly all of which comes from the United States. In a call…

Top Mexican officials were in Texas this week laying out their new strategy for natural gas. Speaking on Wednesday at LDC Forums’ annual US-Mexico Natural Gas Forum in San Antonio, CFEnergía head Miguel Reyes said Mexican utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and international firms would now work together to solve natural gas problems. CFEnergía…