Nexus

NEXUS Gas Transmission LLC said in draft environmental resource reports filed with FERC last week that it is opposed to a request from a northeast Ohio city to reroute about 100 miles of the natural gas pipeline running through the state.

More than two years after they announced the project, backers of the NEXUS Gas Transmission system have submitted their application for pre-filing review at FERC.

Spectra Energy has been busy building out infrastructure in the Northeast, where capacity is needed to get Marcellus and Utica gas to market. However, the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions are ripe for billions of dollars of investment as well, said Spectra’s Bill Yardley, president of the U.S. transmission and storage business.

DTE Pipeline Co. began Tuesday began operation of its Bluestone Gathering pipeline system in Susquehanna County, PA. The southern portion of the pipeline connects gas production of Southwestern Energy to the Tennessee Gas Pipeline in Lenox Township, PA (see Shale Daily, July 6, 2011). The pipeline has a capacity of 275 million cubic feet per day. The remaining 32 miles of pipeline will interconnect with the Millennium Pipeline in Sanford, NY and should be completed in January, DTE said. Bluestone Gathering is being developed as the Bluestone Pipeline Co. of Pennsylvania LLC, Bluestone Gas Corp. of New York Inc. and Susquehanna Gathering Co. I LLC, all of which are subsidiaries of DTE Pipeline, an affiliate of DTE Energy. Bluestone is DTE’s first natural gas gathering project outside Michigan. DTE Pipeline also is a 40% owner of the Vector Pipeline, 26.25% owner of the Millennium Pipeline and 33% owner of the recently announced Nexus Gas Transmission System.

DTE Energy, Enbridge Inc. and Spectra Energy Corp. last week agreed to develop the Nexus Gas Transmission (NGT) system to move growing supplies of Ohio Utica Shale gas to markets in the U.S. Midwest, including Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada.

DTE Energy, Enbridge Inc. and Spectra Energy Corp. have agreed to develop the NEXUS Gas Transmission (NGT) system to move growing supplies of Ohio Utica shale gas to markets in the U.S. Midwest, including Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada.

Based on “the urgency of the situation caused by the nexus between the upcoming storage injection season and the lack of clarity in Commission policy,” Constellation Energy Commodities Group Inc. has submitted an emergency request for expedited action on FERC’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to remove the price cap on short-term releases of transportation capacity and provide a partial exemption for capacity released under asset management arrangements (AMA).

Based on “the urgency of the situation caused by the nexus between the upcoming storage injection season and the lack of clarity in Commission policy,” Constellation Energy Commodities Group Inc. has submitted an emergency request for expedited action on FERC’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to remove the price cap on short-term releases of transportation capacity and provide a partial exemption for capacity released under asset management arrangements (AMA).

On a day when the Aug. 14 blackout dominated Capitol Hill, a major interstate natural gas pipeline group last Wednesday urged the top energy lawmakers in the Senate and House not to overlook the importance of natural gas as they move to conference on a comprehensive energy bill, particularly its role in producing electricity.