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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said last week it is awarding $14.8 million for projects that would improve natural gas and oil pipeline safety. The grants are designed to support “important pipeline safety training and educational programs, as well as the advancement of pipeline safety technologies,” officials said.…

The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) on Friday issued a final rule extending the suspension of LNG transports by rail car through June 2025, ensuring no shipments occur until a companion rulemaking is finalized.  In 2021, the Biden administration first suspended a Trump-era final rule authorizing liquefied natural gas rail…

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) denied a request by a unit of New Fortress Energy Inc. (NFE) to renew its special permit to transport LNG by rail, further closing the door for the company’s export plans in New Jersey. On Monday, the PHMSA denied the 2021 request from Energy Transport Solutions LLC,…

Freeport LNG Development LP is developing new testing protocols and expanding its staff at the export facility after a third-party review highlighted process failures and human error as possible factors in a summer explosion. The operator of the 2.38 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas export terminal on the upper Texas coast has been reviewing the cause…

Federal regulators have given Cheniere Energy Inc. approval to return a liquefied natural gas storage tank to service that’s been closed for over four years at its Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana.  Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) approved Cheniere’s request to place the 3.4…

Freeport LNG Development LP is still planning to meet its previous guidance of a partial restart of its liquefaction facility later this month, according to representatives with the company, while regulators await final documentation. The 2.38 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas export terminal on the upper Texas coast has been offline since a June explosion attributed…

A manufacturing defect, a degraded coating and an ineffective corrosion prevention system contributed to a fatal explosion and fire on Enbridge Inc.’s Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) natural gas pipeline near Danville, KY, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said last week. The August 2019 Tetco Line 15 rupture and subsequent fire caused one death and…

Natural gas futures were humming along most of Wednesday, with prices moving in and out of positive territory amid little change in the weather forecast or production data. In the last half hour of trading, however, the September Nymex exploded higher as details emerged regarding Freeport LNG’s potential return. At the close, the prompt month…

High pressures in a stretch of piping likely caused an explosion that knocked the Freeport liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal offline, according to federal regulators, who have proposed requirements that could ultimately delay a return to service. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said the cause of the June 8 incident is…