Infrastructure

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) is wasting no time challenging Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC’s Eastern System Upgrade (ESU) project, filing both at FERC for a rehearing authorizing the project and in federal court to appeal New York state permits.

At a recent hearing on an indoor soccer court at the foot of Cerro del Brujo, or Shaman’s Hill, in the southern Mexican state of Puebla, a district judge sided with an indigenous community and ordered construction suspended for a key natural gas pipeline underway by TransCanada Corp., further delaying much needed supply.

Mexico plans to announce by mid-December two tenders for liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply to ease potential shortages of natural gas, a senior official has told NGI.

Rover Pipeline LLC is ready to place three eastern Ohio supply laterals and associated compressor stations into service this month, the operator told FERC Friday.

Southern California Gas Co.reported a brief surge of elevated methane emissions occurred during maintenance work to upgrade two compressors at the Aliso Canyon underground storage facility. Operators noted an increase in methane levels on two fence-line monitors along the border of the 3,600-acre storage field and adjacent community. The Sempra Energy utility said it notified authorities; the leak was not considered a threat to health or safety.

Rover Pipeline LLC is ready to place three eastern Ohio supply laterals and associated compressor stations into service this month, the operator told FERC Friday.

Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (PNGTS) on Tuesday received FERC approval to increase its import-export capacity in Maine by 32 MMcf/d and capacity on the north segment by 42 MMcf/d.

A new eastern path will open for Canadian imports of shale gas from the United States — potentially straight to the national capital, Ottawa — as a result of a pipeline direction switch approved by the National Energy Board (NEB).

The U.S. rig count climbed again for the week ending Friday, this time driven by units returning to the patch in the Permian Basin and the Haynesville Shale, according to updated data from Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI).