Sunrise

FERC issued an updated schedule Thursday for its environmental review of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline expansion planned by Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco).

FERC filed a request for comments Thursday on a pair of route variations for the Atlantic Sunrise expansion proposed by Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco), raising speculation in the market that the project could be delayed.

A coalition of environmental groups on Monday asked FERC to redo its draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Marcellus-to-Southeast Atlantic Sunrise expansion, a project of Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco).

FERC staff has issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Atlantic Sunrise project of Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco).

FERC staff has issued a favorable draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Atlantic Sunrise project of Williams Partners’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco).

FERC should weigh Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. LLC’s (Transco) Virginia Southside Expansion Project II and its Atlantic Sunrise Project simultaneously as they both involve work at the same existing compressor station in Virginia, environmentalists told the Commission in a motion to intervene out of time.

Natural gas consumers served by Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. LLC (Transco) in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic could have saved $2.6 billion from 2012 to 2014 if the pipeline’s proposed Atlantic Sunrise project had been in service, according to researchers at The Pennsylvania State University.

The Marcellus Shale has been great, and Pennsylvanians don’t mind too much the associated pipeline development, but tight coordination of multiple projects is necessary, and better communication with communities would be appreciated, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett told FERC last week in comments on the Williams Transco Atlantic Sunrise pipeline project.