Infrastructure

Texas Eastern Transmission LP (Tetco) has filed for a FERC certificate for its proposed Texas-Louisiana Markets Project, a 157,500 Dth/d expansion targeting increased electric and industrial demand along the Gulf Coast.

Efforts to coordinate its natural gas and electricity efforts continue at PJM and will have positive impacts this winter and beyond, according to David Souder, director of operations planning for the grid operator.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan denied a petition by Constitution Pipeline LLC to rehear its lawsuit against regulators in New York State over their refusal to issue a crucial water permit for the embattled natural gas pipeline project, which would serve the Marcellus Shale.

Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC has again requested that FERC issue a notice to proceed (NTP) with construction of the company’s Valley Lateral Project as soon as possible, saying in its filing that the natural gas-fired power plant the pipeline would serve in New York is relying on the project to meet its February commissioning date.

With its fire-related operations under investigationby state regulators, San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) has turned loose a squadron of drones to conduct aerial surveys and gather information on the condition of its infrastructure in the midst of the worst series of wildfires ever in Northern California.

North American onshore activity began to moderate during the third quarter as customers became wary of commodity prices, and the outlook into 2018 has diminished, two of the world’s largest oilfield services (OFS) operators said Friday in separate conference calls.

Driven by declines in the Permian Basin and Haynesville Shale, the U.S. rig count fell by 15 for the week ended Friday, nearly doubling the already steep eight-rig loss from the week before, according to data from Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI).

Newly formed RH energytrans LLC has filed at FERC for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct a 60-mile pipeline that would deliver natural gas from northwest Pennsylvania to northeast Ohio.

FERC on Friday authorized Rover Pipeline LLC to resume horizontal directional drilling (HDD) at two additional locations where work had been stopped following an April drilling fluids spill near the Tuscarawas River in Ohio.