Transmission

Dominion Energy closed out the holiday weekend with two bombshell announcements, disclosing Sunday that it is selling its natural gas transmission and storage assets to an affiliate of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in a transaction valued at $9.7 billion. It also has decided, along with joint-venture partner Duke Energy, to cancel the 600-mile, 1.5…

National Grid is turning to electricity from Canada to try to lower energy costs for consumers in New England, where natural gas pipeline constraints have raised concerns over reliability and caused price spikes during recent winters.

The Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said it will extend the public comment period for proposed rules governing natural gas transmission and gathering lines by another 30 days, but it was half of what the oil and gas industry had requested.

The Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said it will extend the public comment period for proposed rules governing natural gas transmission and gathering lines by another 30 days, but it was half of what the oil and gas industry had requested.

FERC has approved Dominion Transmission Inc.’s (DTI) Lebanon West II Project, which would carry gas from Pennsylvania to Lebanon, OH.

Sempra Energy’s two California utilities plan to file with California regulators by the end of this month to proceed with a new natural gas transmission pipeline link in the heart of San Diego County and the center of the population at the southern end of the state.

County road workers punctured a 12-inch diameter Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) transmission pipeline last Friday, injuring up to 14 people and closing north-south state Highway 99 in California’s Central Valley near Fresno. The incident was caused by an excavator and was not the fault of the company, according to officials.

County road workers punctured a 12-inch diameter Pacific Gas and Electric Co. transmission pipeline last Friday, injuring up to 14 people…

Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) is planning two pipeline projects at a combined cost of $1.75 billion that would carry up to 1.5 Bcf/d of gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales to markets on Columbia Gas Transmission and Columbia Gulf Transmission.