Infrastructure

Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) has indefinitely suspended construction of its $1 billion Palmetto Pipeline after the Georgia General Assembly passed a moratorium on eminent domain, but the legislation is unlikely to impact natural gas projects in the state.

Shippers are protesting the proposed abandonment by sale of TC Offshore LLC’s Grand Chenier System for reversal to serve a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal proposed for the Gulf of Mexico by Avocet LNG LLC.

The market for renewable natural gas (RNG) as a transportation fuel is growing, with new interest in Southern California and Scandinavia.

A unit of San Diego-based Sempra Energy has agreed to sell its 25% stake in the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) to Tallgrass Development LP for $440 million in cash, which would hand Tallgrass a three-quarter stake in the massive natural gas system.

Natural gas leaks across metropolitan Boston are more serious than past studies by the industry have shown, according to the lead author of a new report.

Texas Gas Transmission LLC has received FERC approval for its Northern Supply Access Project, which would carry natural gas from the northern end of its system to Midwestern and southern markets.

Domestic production of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL) — ethane, propane, butanes and natural gasoline — is increasing, with more than 95% of the projected near-term increase expected to come from natural gas processing plants as opposed to petroleum refineries, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Tuesday.

FERC said it will not order a halt to construction of the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline project while four regulatory agencies in New York state investigate a troubled nuclear power plant adjacent to the pipeline’s route.

California regulators on Friday ordered Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) to apply six separate tests to each of the 114 storage wells at its now shuttered 86 Bcf-capacity Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage field on the far northern fringe of Los Angeles. All the tests need to be completed before injections can resume at the state’s largest gas storage facility.