Transcontinental

Williams’ Transcontinental Gas Pipeline (Transco) filed to amend a previously granted FERC certificate for its $189 million Momentum expansion project. The pipeline wants to phase in and reduce the size of the expansion due to changes in the needs of two power generation customers in the Southeast.

Williams’ Transcontinental Gas Pipeline (Transco) filed to amend a previously granted FERC certificate for its $189 million Momentum expansion project. The pipeline wants to phase in and reduce the size of the expansion due to changes in the needs of two power generation customers in the Southeast.

FERC last week gave the green light for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line to spin off its South Texas mainline and lateral facilities to an unaffiliated Texas intrastate pipeline, Enbridge Pipelines LP.

FERC on Wednesday gave the green light for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line to spin off its South Texas mainline and lateral facilities to an unaffiliated Texas intrastate pipeline, Enbridge Pipelines LP.

A federal appeals court in Washington, DC has sent back for the second time a FERC decision rejecting Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.’s bid to charge shippers firm-to-the-wellhead (FTW) transportation rates similar to those enjoyed by its competitors.

Former Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line General Manager Gary D. Lauderdale has joined Houston-based consulting firm Lukens Energy Group as a managing director in the firm’s Strategy Advisory practice area. Lauderdale recently retired from Williams Companies after more than 30 years of service. At Lukens, Lauderdale will offer consulting services related to the overall commercial and operational management of natural gas companies, including issues related to corporate strategy, post-merger integration, corporate downsizing, business process improvement, contract negotiation and dispute resolution. Jay Lukens, president of Lukens Energy Group, said Lauderdale will be “a key player as Lukens Energy Group helps the industry consider ‘what’s next?’ The energy industry is at a precarious point in its evolution. With the melt-down of merchant energy, high natural gas prices and concerns about future energy supplies, many companies are uncertain as to where to go from here.”

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission did not overlook Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line and Northern Natural Gas when it was doling out the numerous project certificates and preliminary determinations (PD) on non-environmental issues Wednesday. The agency awarded Transco a PD for a looping and lateral project in New Jersey to serve local distribution and generation load, while it handed Northern Natural a certificate to proceed with construction in Nebraska to alleviate constraints on its system.

Williams’ affiliates Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line and Williams Field Services (WFS) manipulated the cost of gathering services by wielding their “collective market power” over the interstate gas transportation path through the spun-down North Padre Island (NPI) facilities and Transco’s IT-feeder system, according to an initial decision issued by Administrative Law Judge Lawrence Brenner.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff has given Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line the green light to begin construction of the remaining facilities of its Phase Two MarketLink and Leidy East projects to provide expanded natural gas service to traditional and power generation markets in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.