Infrastructure

The West Virginia Senate on Monday rejected a bill that would have given natural gas companies the right to survey on private property without the owner’s consent.

Several officials with the oil and gas industry told the House Energy and Power Subcommittee on Tuesday that a proposal to reauthorize the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act should not include language giving private individuals the right to sue the Transportation Department’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).

Next-day natgas gained ground in trading Wednesday as stout gains at eastern points to the tune of about 20 cents tugged the overall market higher. The Rockies and California advanced by about a nickel, but gains in the Gulf, Midcontinent, and Texas came in just a few pennies higher.

A new study published Monday by the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) found “no measurable impact” on property values resulting from nearby underground natural gas transmission lines.

Reporting more than a billion dollars in profits last year, Sempra Energy senior executives last Friday forecast continued growth in the company’s utility and non-utility operations in California and Mexico while minimizing the potential for financial fallout from a recently sealed natural gas storage well leak in Southern California.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked FERC to order a halt to construction of the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline project, which would allow four state agencies to continue their investigations into a troubled nuclear power plant adjacent to the pipeline’s route.

North Carolina regulators have granted Duke Energy Corp. a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct two 280 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle units in Buncombe County near Asheville, NC.

While acknowledging today’s choppy waters in global liquefied natural gas (LNG) markets, San Diego-based Sempra Energy senior executives on Friday said they are aggressively seeking final long-term agreements for a proposed joint venture LNG export facility at Port Arthur, TX, and work building more energy infrastructure in Mexico.

FERC should “move forward expeditiously” in its review of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC’s (TGP) Northeast Energy Direct (NED) Project “to relieve New England’s natural gas capacity challenges,” Maine Gov. Paul LePage said in a letter posted on the Commission website last week.