Infrastructure

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.

After more than a month of retrenchment, the domestic rig count bounced back for the week ended Friday on growth in oil-focused activity in the U.S. onshore, according to data from Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI).

Regulatory setbacks that have plagued the Mariner East (ME) 2 pipeline since last year have delayed the in-service date to 2Q2018, Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) said this month.

Shell Chemical Appalachia LLChas transitioned from the early works phase to the main works phase of its multi-billion dollar ethane cracker projectin western Pennsylvania. About 900 workers are on-site for the next phase of the project, when crews will begin erecting major equipment and the 200 structures at the facility. Shell has been focused on site-preparation at the 400-acre site in Beaver County where a zinc smelting plant once operated and has so far moved more than seven million cubic yards of earth, improved roadways, built a power substation, water treatment plant, rail lines and docks along the Ohio River, according to the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance. The facility is expected to be operational in the early 2020s.