natural gas pipelines

Seven years after it was announced, the PennEast Pipeline has been canceled following repeated regulatory and legal setbacks that have increasingly complicated other natural gas infrastructure projects across the country.  PennEast scrapped the project on Monday following what it said was “extensive evaluation and discussion” among its five member companies. The project battled landowners, environmental…

Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) and Southwestern Energy Co. have clinched an agreement to move certified natural gas supply to the Northeast beginning in November. Kinder Morgan Inc. subsidiary TGP, through its existing system, would transport Southwestern’s  Appalachia supply that is certified as responsibly sourced gas (RSG). Certified gas is produced and transported by companies whose…

PennEast Pipeline Co. is for now dropping its years-long efforts to condemn state-owned land in New Jersey until it has more clarity on the beleaguered project’s timeline.  The state notified a federal appeals court this week that the company has agreed to voluntarily dismiss condemnation proceedings for the pipeline. Environmental groups, including the New Jersey…

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP is boosting its footprint in Louisiana with the acquisition of natural gas pipeline assets from Varibus LLC. The Houston-based midstreamer said last week its newly formed subsidiary Boardwalk Louisiana Gas Transmission LLC acquired the assets for an undisclosed sum earlier this month. Details on the transaction were scarce, but Boardwalk said…

Mexico’s Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) will build alternate natural gas pipeline branches in an effort to get stalled projects in the country moving. Speaking at a press conference earlier this month, CFE Internacional and CFEnergía head Miguel Reyes said new routes would be developed for the Guaymas-El Oro pipeline and the Tuxpan-Tula line. The…

A C$355.5 million ($284.4 million) Alberta natural gas pipeline project has survived the adoption of increasingly ambitious greenhouse gas reduction policy targets in Canada and the United States. Shipper contracts still support the capacity addition, according to Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL) as the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) began hearings on its West Path 2023…

FERC on Tuesday issued a temporary certificate of public convenience and necessity to Spire STL Pipeline LLC, keeping the 65-mile, 400,000 Dth/d Midwest natural gas conduit in service for now following a court order vacating the project’s federal authorization. Three of the four sitting members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission opted to support the…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (DC) Circuit on Tuesday rebuffed a request filed by Spire STL Pipeline LLC to reconsider an earlier decision that vacated the Midwest natural gas conduit’s FERC certificate. The circuit court denied a petition for panel rehearing filed by Spire and its affiliate Spire Missouri Inc.,…

Dry natural gas production from shale formations in the Appalachian Basin continues to be hot and is breaking records. According to a note from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), production in the region reached 32.5 Bcf/d in December and averaged 31.9 Bcf/d during the first half of 2021. Researchers said it was “the highest average…