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FERC staff released a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the Rover Pipeline LLC project that found “adverse and significant” impacts and makes recommendations to mitigate them that it said should be included in any approval of the project.

FERC on Thursday reinforced its decision of last fall to allow Trunkline Gas Co. to convert a looped portion of its 770-mile natural gas line from the Gulf of Mexico to Michigan to use as an oil pipeline, saying the remaining loops were adequate to handle its firm gas service (see Daily GPI, Nov. 8, 2013).

FERC has authorized Trunkline Gas Co. LLC to deliver up to 1 Bcf/d of natural gas to the Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in Louisiana using a bi-directional system connected to Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Creole Trail Pipeline.

Over the objections of consumers, utilities, regulators and congressional lawmakers, FERC Thursday approved Trunkline Gas Co.’s request to abandon by sale 770 miles of a underutilized natural gas system serving Michigan to an affiliate for conversion to oil transmission service.

Trunkline LNG Export LLChas awardedTechnipthe front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the potential expansion of an existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Lake Charles, LA, to make it an LNG export facility (seeDaily GPI,Aug. 8). The project includes an LNG liquefaction plant with export capacity of up to 15 million tonnes per annum. The capacity could be achieved through up to three identical trains, with associated utilities and offsite facilities, as well as the reuse of the existing LNG offloading, storage and marine facilities.Air Productshas been selected to supply its C3MR liquefaction process technology for the FEED study. Technip’s operating center in Houston will execute the contract with support from the company’s center in Paris. It is scheduled for completion during the first half of 2014.

Lake Charles Exports LLC is conditionally authorized to export at a rate of up to 2 Bcf/d, bringing the potential total U.S. LNG exports to 5.6 Bcf/d.

Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. is planning to build production through the rest of this year from its substantial asset base in the Appalachian Basin after being knocked back early this year from a lack of pipeline capacity for natural gas liquids (NGL), CEO Gary Evans said Tuesday.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP (PVR) has begun service on a new 30-mile, 24-inch diameter trunkline serving Marcellus Shale producers in north-central Pennsylvania with 750 MMcf/d of capacity. The capacity gives producers shipping gas out of the Marcellus a way around constraints on Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s congested 300 Line.

Tennessee downgraded Friday the Balancing Alert OFO that it had declared specifically for three meters (see Daily GPI, Oct. 21) to an Action Alert OFO until further notice.