natural gas pipelines

Executives at midstreamer Oneok Inc. said they are looking at the midpoint of this year to make a final investment decision (FID) on a pipeline that would transport gas from Texas to Mexico’s west coast. Chief commercial officer Kevin Burdick said “we’re still early in the process from the pipeline’s perspective. It would be an…

With its direction aimed at expanding the natural gas business, including deliveries to export LNG, Williams is looking to repeat the 2022 performance, when it delivered record results from its onshore and deepwater operations. CEO Alan Armstrong on Tuesday was joined by the executive team to deliver quarterly and year-end results. The results were paired…

Another major natural gas pipeline is slated for Mexico, this one for the Northwestern part of the country and the states of Sonora and Baja California. On Monday, Mexican utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Carso Energy and Sempra Infrastructure. Carso Energy is a subsidiary of Grupo Carso,…

TC Energy Corp. has again upwardly revised the expected cost of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) natural gas pipeline in Western Canada, citing challenges on multiple fronts. TC now expects the project to cost C$14.5 ($10.9 billion), up from C$11.2 billion ($8.4 billion) forecasted in its third-quarter 2022 earnings report. “The project continues to face material…

Mexico’s state power company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is aiming to bring online 1.5 GW of natural gas-fired power generation capacity on the Yucatán Peninsula by summer 2024, CEO Manuel Bartlett said Monday. The combined-cycle plants in Mérida and Valladolid would have capacities of 499 MW and 1,020 MW, respectively, and run primarily on…

Bolivian gas was once the beating heart of South America’s natural gas production, with powerhouse neighbors Argentina and Brazil relying on the landlocked country’s pipeline shipments to keep the lights on. But this is seen coming to an end. Bolivian gas production will decline more rapidly than expected, falling from 1.4 Bcf/d in 2022 to…

The past year marked a renewed sense of collaboration between Mexico’s state power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and private sector energy firms, resulting in the sanctioning of new natural gas infrastructure projects and agreements to advance stalled ones. Meanwhile, Mexico’s pipeline natural gas imports from the United States were down year/year during summer,…

As the United States works toward casting a wider net on the global natural gas market via exports, key domestic markets could be turned upside down in 2023 as midstream bottlenecks leave gas stranded in producing basins. LNG developers on the Gulf Coast are in a race to boost liquefied natural gas exports to capitalize…

Earlier than expected, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has released a draft version of an updated environmental review needed for the Mountain Valley Pipeline’s (MVP) proposed 3.5-mile crossing of the Jefferson National Forest along the Virginia-West Virginia border. Notice of the availability of the draft supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) was published in the Federal…