Infrastructure

Rover Pipeline LLC has completed over half of the 49 horizontal directional drills (HDDs) needed for the 710-mile, 3.25 Bcf/d interstate natural gas pipeline, and soon expects FERC to reauthorize the remaining eight HDDs still held up by a moratorium issued in May, an Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) spokeswoman said this week.

Flows resume Monday into the United States from Alberta on the Keystone oil pipeline after an 11-day interruptionto repair a leak and start cleaning up a 5,000 bbl oil spill in northeastern South Dakota.

Global natural gas vehicle (NGV) supplier Landi Renzo SpA and California-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. said Monday they plan to combine their compressor manufacturing units to form a standalone company.

NextDecade Corp. said it is considering a plan to use two production trains for its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in South Texas, but it still plans to eventually have six trains running at the facility near the Mexican border.

A New Jersey Resources Corp. subsidiary has extended the binding open season to Dec. 8 for up to 250,000 Dth/d of firm transportation on an existing 84-mile pipeline in southeast Pennsylvania. Adelphia Gateway LLC extended the open season, launched in early November, in response to customer requests for a delivery interconnection with Columbia Gas Transmission (TCO) in Delaware County near the borough of Marcus Hook. For information contact David Johnson or Jack Herbert at openseason@adelphiagateway.com. The pipeline once delivered oil from a refinery, but a portion of the system now delivers natural gas. Adelphia wants to repurpose the remaining pipe to deliver more gas to the Philadelphia area.

A multi-billion dollar natural gas-to-liquids (GTL) project underway near Lake Charles, LA, since 2012 by Sasol Ltd. has been scuttled.

A federal court has ordered construction halted on an eight-mile stretch of the Nexus Gas Transmission pipeline in Northeast Ohio until it can review the project’s 401 Water Quality Certification that was issued by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA).

Houston-based Genesis Energy LP is holding an open season through Dec. 22 to test support for a 140-mile-long crude oil gathering system in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin (PRB).

UPS on Monday finalized its largest agreement to date for renewable natural gas (RNG) with Big Ox Energy for 10 million gallon equivalents/year through 2024.