Pipe

FERC Friday issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s (Transco) and Florida Gas Transmission’s (FGT) joint proposal to connect the Mobile Bay Lateral with a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal being developed in Pascagoula, MS. A related upstream pipeline project of FGT’s got a favorable review as well.

Affiliated pipelines Texas Eastern, Algonquin and Maritimes & Northeast said Friday they were lifting restrictions on creation of due-pipe imbalances and payback of due-shipper imbalances.

Affiliated pipelines Texas Eastern, Algonquin and Maritimes & Northeast said Friday they were lifting restrictions on creation of due-pipe imbalances and payback of due-shipper imbalances.

FERC last Thursday upheld a prior order that approved, over the strong objections of Washington Gas Light (WGL), Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s (Transco) proposal to construct two bidirectional interconnections to receive regasified liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the proposed Elba Express pipeline system.

A unit of Williams Cos. Inc. said Friday it has executed precedent agreements for a proposed Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. (Transco) expansion to provide an additional 142,000 Dth of incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to serve growing markets in the Mid-Atlantic region by November 2012.

A unit of Williams Cos. Inc. said Friday it has executed precedent agreements for a proposed Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. (Transco) expansion to provide an additional 142,000 Dth of incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to serve growing markets in the Mid-Atlantic region by November 2012.

Over the next few years much of the gas industry is expected to be heading for the hills of Appalachia with projects to process and pipe natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. Analysts at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. (TPH) think that from 2009 to 2013 more than $10 billion will be spent on gas infrastructure in the region.

Over the next few years much of the gas industry is expected to be heading for the hills of Appalachia with projects to process and pipe natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. Analysts at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities Inc. (TPH) think that from 2009 to 2013 more than $10 billion will be spent on gas infrastructure in the region.

Pipeline customers who failed to get lower rates on Panhandle Eastern Pipe Lines’ Southwest Gas Storage service by filing their own Natural Gas Act (NGA) Section 5 complaint [RP07-34] several years ago, nevertheless may have laid the groundwork and inspired the strategy for FERC’s surprise action last week, calling for formal investigations of three pipelines for possible over-recovery in their rates (see related story).