Transportation

JBBR Pipeline LLC is holding an open season for a new 20-inch diameter crude oil pipeline, measuring approximately four miles in length, in Illinois.

Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) is holding a binding open season for transportation service on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline (ETCOP).

Plans by Puget Sound Energy (PSE) to develop a $275 million liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and transportation facility at the Port of Tacoma south of Seattle moved ahead with the recent approval of a lease by the port’s governing board. Construction is slated to begin next year and be completed by the end of 2018.

The Colorado Energy Office, which has a goal of diversifying the state’s energy use for transportation, is preparing to issue a request for applications (RFA) for partial funding of compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations that are co-located with electric vehicle (EV) charging sites and/or propane fueling locations.

Bitter cold temperatures, high demand, dwindling supplies and high prices have all combined to create a “perfect storm” propane shortage, leaving suppliers scrambling and prompting nearly two dozen states and the federal government to take steps to ease the crisis.

California-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. reported Thursday that customers increased natural gas vehicle (NGV) orders by 70% this year compared with 2012, and the public transit sector helped lead the way.

North American efforts to use more natural gas for transportation got a boost Tuesday on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border with announcements of separate joint venture projects.

The push for more natural gas use in transportation through infrastructure and equipment advances shifted into high gear with more evidence that the transition is expanding on a global basis.

Omaha, NB-based independent energy provider Tenaska said Thursday it is launching a marketing/development company, Tenaska NG Fuels LLC (TNG Fuels), to provide natural gas for the transportation and industrial sectors, both compressed natural (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG).