Pipeline

A long awaited petrochemical project is set to begin operations in the Appalachian Basin in 2022, and a second major investment in the region could get the green light this year.

The 2 Bcf/d Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project has received a key water quality certification (WQC) from West Virginia, but environmental groups have filed yet another lawsuit against the approval.  The pipeline would move Appalachian natural gas to the southeast via a 303-mile route through West Virginia and Virginia.  The Sierra Club and other environmental…

A Massuchusetts appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit challenging one of the approvals of the Weymouth natural gas compressor station along the Atlantic Bridge Project, which transports Appalachia supply into Canada. A three-judge panel agreed with the Supreme Judicial Court judge’s ruling that the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (FRRACS) could not seek…

Although investment in Mexico’s energy sector has slowed, the country’s demand for U.S. natural gas continues to rise, and its gas infrastructure continues to grow, albeit in fits and starts. NGI’s Mexico GPI has compiled a list of five pending projects to watch in 2022:

FERC plans to fine Energy Transfer Partners LP and subsidiary Rover Pipeline LLC $40 million over alleged violations during work on a 2017 horizontal directional drill (HDD) at the Tuscarawas River in Stark County, OH. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission handed down a show cause order during last week’s monthly meeting, formalizing its intent to…

A Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) panel late last week voted to deny an air permit for a compressor station needed to extend the Equitrans Midstream Partners LP-led Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) into North Carolina. Going against DEQ’s recommendation, the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board voted 6-1 to deny a draft minor new source…

Oil and refined products flows resumed Sunday through Trans Mountain Pipeline after a three-week suspension of deliveries as a safety precaution during floods in southern British Columbia. “The restart comes following completion of all necessary assessments, repairs, and construction of protective earthworks needed for the pipeline to be returned to service,” said the Calgary firm.…

The Heartland Greenway carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) pipeline, a 1,300-mile system that would traverse five Midwestern states, has snagged a top Iowa fertilizer company as a customer, according to Navigator CO2 Ventures LLC. Under the agreement with Dutch fertilizer giant OCI NV, Navigator would transport and sequester up to 1.13 million metric tons/year (mmty)…

Mexican state power utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) said Thursday it is developing a $4.5 billion project with energy ministry Sener and Sistrangas pipeline grid operator Centro Nacional de Control del Gas Natural (Cenagas) to expand natural gas access on the Yucatán Peninsula. A CFE spokesperson told NGI’s Mexico GPI that the project in…