Infrastructure

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) resumed natural gas injection operations at its Aliso Canyon storage facility near Los Angeles on July 31, and summer heat, as well as a pipeline maintenance project, soon could necessitate withdrawals, the Sempra Energy utility said.

The first liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from Sempra Energy’s Cameron, LA, facility have been pushed to 2019 because of issues related to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), executives said Friday.

Enterprise Products Partners LP’s management team said it believes higher rigs counts in the Permian Basin, as well as the Haynesville and Eagle Ford shales, will inexorably lead to higher oil and natural gas volumes flowing through its systems, beginning in the second half of the year.

In a flurry of votes taken after weeks of delays, the U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed new commissioners to FERC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and a new Deputy Secretary of Energy, all of them previously nominated by President Trump.

Driven by declines in the offshore Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the United States dropped four rigs during the week ended Aug. 4, according to data released by Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI).

The Cove Point liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the Chesapeake Bay in Lusby, MD, is 95% complete, remains on-time and on-budget, with a commercial in-service date expected later this year, according to Dominion Energy Inc.

Driven by declines in the offshore Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the United States dropped four rigs during the week ending Friday, according to data released by Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI).

DTE Energy Co. said this week it would move forward with a 1,100 MW natural gas-fired power plant after filing a certificate of necessity with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) for the nearly $1 billion project.

The Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) Coalition in a public hearing last week urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow increased production for its members.