The U.S. Coast Guard earlier this week extended its ban on tanker shipments to include a Distrigas liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker into Boston Harbor, saying that the ship will be denied entry until it has provided an “approved safety and security plan and all response agencies are confident that appropriate safety and security measures are in place.”
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Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC reported late last week that it has received the first shipment of pipe at Port Manatee, FL, for construction of its 753-mile natural gas pipeline system. More than 18,000 tons of 36-inch diameter steel pipe (23 miles) were delivered to the port where they will be unloaded and moved to the concrete coating facility located at the port. The pipe, purchased from Berg Steel Pipe Corp. (see Daily GPI, March 17, 2000) in Panama City, FL, arrived by ship from Dunkirk, France, after being manufactured by Berg’s parent company, Europipe. The company said seven more shipments of pipe are scheduled to arrive at Port Manatee by ship during the next two months. Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC is a joint interstate natural gas pipeline development of Williams and Duke Energy approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Feb. 22, 2001. The project will extend from Mississippi and Alabama across the Gulf of Mexico to Florida. The company said the project has an initial in-service date of June 2002. Construction of the $1.6 billion pipeline project began June 1. More information about the Gulfstream Natural Gas System is available by visiting the project Web site at www.gulfstreamgas.com.
June 11, 2001
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