Infrastructure

Mexican competition authorities have cleared a $500 million deal by Sempra Energy’s local subsidiary to increase its stake in the Los Ramones II Norte natural gas pipeline, the company said last week.

Basis differentials at the Waha Hub, situated at the heart of the Permian Basin, could “blow out materially” over the next year or two, and Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) is poised to take advantage, management said.

Dozens of groups and individuals filed rehearings requests this week challenging FERC’s certificate orders approving the Atlantic Coast (ACP) and Mountain Valley (MVP) pipelines.

The Sacramento, CA-based Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Coalition now boasts more than 100 members nationally with the addition of Duke Energy and Southwest Gas Corp. Southwest Gas provides natural gas utility services to more than two million customers in Nevada, Arizona and California, and Duke supplies gas utility services to more than 1.5 million customers in the Carolinas, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. The companies join other RNG supporters that include utilities, energy/environmental organizations and universities.

The complex dispute over a trio of natural gas pipelines in the Southeast, including Sabal Trail, took another turn after environmental groups and landowners opposed to the pipelines urged a federal appeals court to reject a FERC request that the court reverse a decision to vacate project permits.

Houston-based Cheniere Energy Inc. saw its revenues nearly triple and the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export business boom in 3Q2017, with progress made at both the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi facilities, despite the impacts of Hurricane Harvey, CEO Jack Fusco said Tuesday.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said it would prosecute anyone responsible for damaging the nation’s oil and natural gas pipelines, three weeks after 84 House lawmakers posed a series of questions in a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions over destruction by demonstrators.

Mexican competition authorities have cleared a $500 million deal by Sempra Energy’s local subsidiary to increase its stake in the Los Ramones II Norte natural gas pipeline, the company said last week.

A high-horsepower (HHP) natural gas engine for compression applications by a Caterpillar Corp. unit was but one of the offerings unveiled at the High Horsepower Summit that ended on Thursday in Jacksonville, FL.