Pipe

After a seven-month pause to finish a Minnesota environmental review, Enbridge Inc. regained a path to construction Monday for its contested Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project across Western Canada and the northern United States.

After a seven-month pause to finish a Minnesota environmental review, Enbridge Inc. regained a path to construction Monday for its contested Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project across Western Canada and the northern United States.

Less than two weeks after the Trump administration rejected Plains All American Pipeline LP’s request for an exemption to a tariff on imported steel it already purchased for a pipeline in the booming Permian Basin, the COO urged House lawmakers to work to improve the exemption request process.

Attorneys representing landowners opposed to the Dalton Expansion Project have asked FERC to block the project, alleging Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. (Transco) ran afoul of a directive by the Trump administration requiring domestically produced iron and steel in pipelines.

The Liberal government in Ottawa opened doors Tuesday to growth by Canada’s biggest natural gas consumers, Alberta oilsands plants, by approving 970,000 b/d of capacity additions for export pipelines to the United States and overseas.

The Christmas weekend brought mixed news for Southern California Gas Co.’s (SoCalGas) efforts to contain a two-month-old natural gas well leak at its Aliso Canyon underground storage field 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) on Tuesday released reports by separate third-party engineering/metallurgical consulting firms that concluded excavation equipment from a road-building project caused the rupture and resulting fatal fire in the utility’s 12-inch diameter natural gas transmission pipeline (Line 118B) near Fresno, CA, last April.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) on Tuesday released reports by separate third-party engineering/metallurgical consulting firms that concluded excavation equipment from a road-building project caused the rupture and resulting fatal fire in the utility's 12-inch diameter natural gas transmission pipeline (Line 118B) near Fresno, CA, last April.

Canadian government officials have started investigations of the imports of oil/gas industry pipe from up to nine nations, echoing efforts by the U.S. Commerce Department to thwart “dumping” of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) for pipe priced below cost to get a foothold on robust North American markets (see Daily GPI, July 15).