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Staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for Texas Eastern Transmission LP’s (Tetco) proposed Idle Line 1 Abandonment project [CP17-6]. FERC staff concluded that, with appropriate mitigating measures, the project would not significantly affect the quality of the human environment. Tetco is seeking authorization to abandon in place and by removal 165 miles of Line 1 pipeline that runs from Fayette County, OH, to Greene County, PA, that were placed into idle service in 1989, including three segments of 24-inch diameter pipeline, associated lateral lines 10-L and 10-M, metering and regulating facilities and other aboveground facilities. FERC will accept comments on the EA through May 22.

U.S. Lower 48 liquefied natural gas (LNG) first-mover Cheniere Energy has been positioning itself for the next wave of demand, securing additional acreage at existing terminal sites and planning for a “mid-scale” liquefaction project, analysts following the company were told Wednesday.

A unit of BP plc has ramped up a natural gas compression project onshore Trinidad, one of seven major upstream projects the super major expects to bring online in 2017.

FERC on Friday issued a final environmental impact statement (FEIS) for the PennEast Pipeline, bringing the project one step closer to approval.

Staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will prepare an environmental assessment (EA) of the Pomelo Connector Pipeline Project and the South Texas Expansion Project, separate but related projects of Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Tetco) intended to support natural gas exports to Mexico. Comments on the projects [CP15-499] are due at the Commission by May 8. The 30-inch diameter Pomelo would run from Tetco’s Petronila Station in Nueces County, TX, to its Valley Crossing interconnect near Agua Dulce. Valley Crossing Pipeline LLC, originally a unit of Spectra Energy since merged with Enbridge Inc., has proposed a Texas pipeline and U.S.-Mexico border crossing to serve power generation and other gas demand in Mexico as well as in Texas [CP17-19].

FERC granted approval this week for Williams Partners LP’s Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco) to begin service on its Dalton Expansion Project.

A leaner and more cost competitive industry in the deepwater has emerged as the energy industry gets back to work, with the most compelling projects worldwide closer to competing with U.S. tight oil plays, according to Wood Mackenzie.

Resources Energy Inc. (REI), an affiliate of Japan’s Energy Resources Inc., has abandoned a plant for a small-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Port MacKenzie in Southcentral Alaska because of global market conditions for LNG.

The U.S. State Department issued TransCanada Corp. a presidential permit for its controversial Keystone XL (KXL) oil pipeline on Friday, reversing a decision made about 500 days earlier that the $8 billion project was not in the nation’s interest.