Virginia

FERC staff expects to issue an environmental assessment (EA) next month for Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s (TCO) proposed Buckeye XPress Project in Ohio and West Virginia, which would add another 275 MMcf/d of natural gas capacity to the interstate pipeline system.

Southwestern Energy Co. increased year/year production by 5% to 946 Bcfe in 2018, even after divesting its Fayetteville Shale assets and becoming a pure-player focused on the Appalachian Basin, where it continues to extend laterals in a big way and see success in different intervals such as the Upper Devonian Shale.

Dominion Energy on Friday again pushed back the service date and increased its cost estimates for the embattled Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) as the legal morass confronting the project continues to grow thicker.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide this week whether it will hear a case challenging the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the constitutionality of parts of the Natural Gas Act (NGA).

Construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is still on hold after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit refused to narrow its order staying the implementation of key federal authorizations that forced the project to stop work early last month.

Virginia’s State Air Pollution Control Board on Tuesday unanimously approved a permit for Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC’s (ACP) proposed Buckingham Compressor Station, a favorable decision for a project that found itself mired in legal and regulatory setbacks in 2018.

Virginia’s State Water Control Board (SWCB) plans to hold a hearing to decide whether to revoke Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s (MVP) state-issued water quality permit, creating even more regulatory uncertainty for a project that has faced numerous setbacks.

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring and the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) have filed a lawsuit against Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) for alleged environmental violations that occurred during construction in various counties.

A highly anticipated opinion issued late Tuesday substantiating the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s decision last month to vacate the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Nationwide Permit (NWP) 12 isn’t expected to have an impact on the project’s latest timeline, a spokesperson said.