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FERC staff has issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC’s (TGP) Southwest Louisiana Supply Project, which would provide transportation from various supply basins in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Louisiana to Cameron Interstate Pipeline, which connects directly to the Cameron LNG Terminal in Louisiana, now under construction.

Louisiana’s Vermilion Parish is now the sixth coastal parish in the state suing the oil and natural gas industry for alleged damages to coastal wetlands.

Cameron Parish, LA, has filed 11 lawsuits against about 200 oil/natural gas companies alleging liability for damage to Louisiana coastal wetlands. Similar lawsuits by Jefferson Parish are pending; however, Plaquemines Parish has dropped its lawsuits (see Daily GPI,Nov. 13, 2015). “This has become a pattern in our state,” said Don Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil & Gas Association. “File large-scale egregious lawsuits that try to strain as many dollars as possible off the backs of the hardworking men and women of the oil and gas industry.”

The parish council in Plaquemines, LA, has withdrawn lawsuits filed against numerous oil and gas companies over alleged damages to coastal wetlands.

The U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers has granted the wetlands permit that Helis Oil & Gas needed to drill a vertical exploratory well in rural St. Tammany Parish, LA.

The U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers has granted the wetlands permit that Helis Oil & Gas needed to drill a vertical exploratory well in rural St. Tammany Parish, LA.

An explosion early Tuesday morning on the Florida Gas Transmission (FGT) pipeline in Washington Parish, LA, 80 miles north of New Orleans destroyed a mobile home and caused the evacuation of 55 area residents. Gas supplies moving on the west-to-east pipeline were rerouted, operator Energy Transfer Partners said. No injuries were reported

Two people have now died as a result of Thursday morning’s explosion at the Williams Geismar, LA, olefins plant in Ascension Parish.

Cheniere Energy Inc. unit Sabine Pass Liquefaction LLC has applied to the U.S. Department of Energy to export additional volumes from its planned terminal in Cameron Parish, LA. Sabine Pass is seeking authorization to export to both free trade agreement (FTA) and non-FTA countries the equivalent of 101 Bcf per year in support of a contract it struck last December with Total Gas & Power North America Inc. (see Daily GPI, Dec. 18, 2012). The term of the 20-year agreement begins upon the first commercial delivery for the project’s fifth train and has an extension option of up to 10 years. However, Sabine Pass said it is not obligated to serve the Total contract from train five and may use whatever capacity is available at the facility. Recently, Sabine Pass and related companies filed at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to set in motion the approval process for the project’s fifth and sixth trains (see Daily GPI, March 7).