Infrastructure

The devastation from Hurricane Harvey will be difficult to overcome, but the energy industry is making an effort to ease the pain by donating money and time to relief efforts along the Gulf Coast.

Physical natural gas for delivery Wednesday on average gained, but the next-day market was highly skewed. Most points were down a few cents and Texas, Louisiana, the Midcontinent and Midwest on average all posted losses. The NGI National Spot Gas Average, however, rose 1 cent to $2.70, primarily on the backs of outsized gains in southern California prompted by an ongoing heat wave.

Horrible Harvey, which stormed into South Texas as a Category 4 storm Friday night, is continuing to wreak havoc along the Gulf Coast, with catastrophic rainfall disrupting lives and shuttering the energy breadbasket of the United States. The storm was expected to continue battering the coast through much of the week, leaving the Houston-Galveston region swimming in more than four feet of accumulated rainfall.

FERC on Monday authorized partial path service for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co.’s (Transco) Atlantic Sunrise expansion project, bringing the 1.7 million Dth/d natural gas pipeline one step closer to completion.

FERC on Monday authorized partial path service for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co.’s (Transco) Atlantic Sunrise expansion project, bringing the 1.7 million Dth/d natural gas pipeline one step closer to completion.

Hurricane Harvey, a menacing Category 3 storm, was set to strike landfall Friday night with sustained winds of 125 mph, delivering a deluge backed by devastating winds and a massive storm surge to the Coastal Bend of Texas near Corpus Christi, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

*Part one of four. This series examines the effects New York state’s energy policies are having on Appalachian natural gas producers, consumers and the Northeast. It explores the political, operational and economic issues related to the state government’s position on natural gas. Part one explores Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s role in fermenting that position and what it’s meant for infrastructure projects trying to pass through the state.

Industry opponents won an opening skirmish Wednesday in the forthcoming battle over environmental approval of the Energy East plan for partial conversion of TransCanada Corp.’s natural gas Mainline to oil service.

National Fuel Gas Co. subsidiaries have filed a motion for expedited action with FERC, asking Commissioners to act quickly on a request they made earlier this year to bypass New York regulators and start construction on the beleaguered Northern Access expansion project.