Infrastructure

Earlier reports of possible involvement of Southern California Edison Co. (SCE) equipment in the start of the Creek fire in Southern California were found to be inaccurate as the transmission line equipment in question belongs to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), and the city-run utility said that equipment did not spark or go down in the fire.

In the article titled “Edison Power Line Suspected in One SoCal Wildfire,” early reports were that the Creek fire began in the foothills north of Los Angeles after two homeowners spotted what was possibly a Southern California Edison Co. electric transmission line fall into the brush and spark. These earlier reports as to the start of the Creek fire in Southern California were found to be inaccurateas the transmission line equipment in question belongs to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and the city-run utility said that equipment did not spark or go down in the fire. The investigation is ongoing. NGI regrets the error.

New Jersey Resources Corp. (NJR) subsidiary Adelphia Gateway LLC has successfully completed a binding open season for a 250,000 Dth/d pipeline that would serve growing demand for natural gas in the Greater Philadelphia region.

Houston-based Tellurian Inc. said Monday it is developing a three-pipeline attack to expand natural gas supply alternatives in southwestern Louisiana that would not only give its Haynesville Shale production more access, but also link to a massive export project in the works.

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) on Wednesday launched the use of fiber optics to monitor segments of its largest high-pressure and transmission pipelines at least 12 inches in diameter.

An underserved portion of a Southern California beachfront community is the focus of a proposed power and energy program jointly sponsored by the California Energy Commission (CEC), University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas).

The ongoing shift away from coal and nuclear power generation and toward natural gas and renewables brings with it “a unique set of challenges and opportunities to maintain the system’s inertia and other essential reliability services,” according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).

The United States added three natural gas-directed rigs for the week ended Friday, but a decline in oil drilling saw the domestic count fall by one overall, according to data from Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI).

FERC on Friday cleared Rover Pipeline LLC to place three eastern Ohio supply laterals and associated compression into service, clearing the way for the 3.25 Bcf/d, 710-mile pipeline to offer up additional capacity to producers by the end of the year, as scheduled.