Pipelines

FERC Tuesday approved Equitrans LP’s request to abandon by sale its Sunrise Pipeline facilities that are currently under construction to a newly created affiliate, Sunrise Pipeline LLC, which was formed by Equitrans owner EQT Corp.

DCP Midstream LLC is promoting a number of Midcontinent-focused projects currently under way that combined represent an investment of $2 billion. Among them is infrastructure development to provide natural gas liquids (NGL) takeaway capacity to Mont Belvieu, TX.

NiSource Midstream Services (NMS) is in “advanced discussions with a producer counterparty” about a potential joint venture (JV) to focus on gathering, processing and transporting in eastern Ohio’s Utica Shale, NiSource Inc. officials said Tuesday.

While she joined the majority at FERC last week in voting out a certificate to build facilities to liquefy and export natural gas, Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur on Monday cautioned industry about rushing to invest in liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities, questioning how long the U.S. will maintain its technology advantage in the development of the shale gas that is driving the trend towards exports.

Environmental regulators in British Columbia (BC) have approved a request by Pacific Trail Pipelines LP (PTP) for an expansion to the Kitimat to Summit Lake (KSL) Looping Project, a proposed pipeline to transport natural gas from the Horn River Basin in Western Canada to the Pacific coast.

Environmental regulators in British Columbia (BC) have approved a request by Pacific Trail Pipelines LP (PTP) for an expansion to the Kitimat to Summit Lake (KSL) Looping Project, a proposed pipeline to transport natural gas from the Horn River Basin in Western Canada to the Pacific coast.

The midstream services unit of NiSource Gas Transmission and Storage (NGT&S) plans to develop a wet and dry gas gathering system to serve the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio.

Enbridge Inc.’s board of directors said Patrick D. Daniel, president and CEO, will retire by the end of 2012. Al Monaco, currently president of gas pipelines, green energy and international, was promoted to the board of directors and is assuming the role of president. The Calgary-based energy transportation firm said Daniel will continue as CEO and a member of the board until his retirement. Daniel joined Enbridge in 1982, became executive vice president in 1988 and assumed the CEO role in 2001. Monaco joined Enbridge in 1995 and has held senior management roles at the corporate level, as well as leadership of the gas transportation, gas distribution and green energy businesses. He also helped Enbridge’s major projects division, which has been responsible for designing and constructing all of the company’s major energy infrastructure projects.

Inergy subsidiary Central New York Oil & Gas Co. LLC (CYNOG) is ready to move forward with construction of the MARC I Hub Line project in northeastern Pennsylvania — a project that is expected to give northern markets greater access to Marcellus Shale gas — following a FERC order this week granting the project a certificate of public convenience and necessity.