natural gas

Enterprise Products Partners LP is planning to construct a cryogenic natural gas processing plant and associated midstream infrastructure in Eddy County, NM to serve growing production in the Permian Basin’s Delaware sub-basin.

FERC late Monday authorized Dominion Cove Point LNG LP to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Calvert County, MD and related facilities in Virginia, the first East Coast LNG project to receive the green light. The proposal, mitigated with 79 conditions, is in the public interest, federal authorities said.

Oil and natural gas systems represented the second largest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States last year, but methane emissions actually fell 1% because of an increase in natural gas drilling, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

As negotiations take place between the United States and the European Union (EU) over a proposed free trade agreement, a pair of U.S. lawmakers are urging their representative to oppose Europe’s push to include language they claim would lead to “automatic and unrestricted exports” of American natural gas and crude oil to the EU.

Tenaska NG Fuels LLC (TNG Fuels) and Waller Marine Inc. have agreed to develop and operate Louisiana’s first natural gas liquefaction and fueling facility along the New Orleans-Baton Rouge corridor of the Mississippi River with access to the Gulf of Mexico, the companies said Tuesday.

The Liberal government of Nova Scotia followed through on a promise to continue a moratorium on high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) on Tuesday, after introducing an amendment to the province’s Petroleum Resources Act.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) has issued a cease operations order to Antero Resources Corp. after an incident that occurred on Sept. 24 in northern West Virginia, when the company inadvertently breached a producing well while drilling another on the same pad.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP has reached a long-term transportation agreement with NOVA Chemicals Corp. to transport ethane and ethane-propane mixtures from the Utica Shale through its previously announced Utica To Ontario Pipeline Access (UTOPIA) project.

Gas for next-day delivery rose at nearly all market points in Tuesday’s trading with the Northeast posting double-digit gains, and more widespread gains of a few pennies were seen in the Mid-Atlantic, Marcellus, and Appalachia areas. Other Producing regions were also solidly in the black. Overall the market added an average of 6 cents to $3.79.