Infrastructure

Attorneys have cited the absence of a safety valve in lawsuits on behalf of residents that have been dislocated by a two-month-old natural gas storage well leak in the northwest end of the Los Angeles San Fernando Valley (see Daily GPI,Nov. 19).

Opponents of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC’s Northeast Energy Direct (NED) — and everyone else — have about another week to comment on the project at FERC. The commission extended the comment period to Jan. 15 to make up for technical difficulties with its eFiling system that prevented some document submissions over the holidays.

Natural gas will remain an attractive transportation fuel alternative to diesel for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, and global sales of natural gas vehicles (NGV) will reach 35 million by 2025, according to a report released by Boulder, CO-based Navigant Research.

Tallgrass Energy Partners LP is acquiring another 31.3% of Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline LLC for $475 million in cash and 6.518 million Tallgrass Energy common units to be issued to Tallgrass Development.

FERC staff on Monday released a favorable environmental assessment (EA) of the Texas-Mexico border crossing facilities associated with the Texas intrastate Trans-Pecos Pipeline project, as well as for the border crossing facilities of the Comanche Trail Pipeline.

U.S. natural gas prices look terrible again this year and could decline another 25% from 2015 as the structural oversupply continues, Raymond James & Associates Inc. said Monday.

Enterprise Products Partners LP has begun operations of the final segment of the Aegis ethane pipeline, the 162-mile stretch that runs from Lake Charles to Napoleonville in Louisiana. Additionally, a Houston Ship Channel ethane export facility is nearing completion.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) told FERC that Columbia Gas Transmission LLC’s proposed WB XPress Project, which would increase capacity of the company’s regional interstate pipeline system by 1.3 Bcf/d, appears “unlikely” to pose a threat to the environment.

In a voluminous FERC filing Monday, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. LLC (TGP) responded to questions from the Commission about its Northeast Energy Direct (NED) project and refuted criticisms that were leveled by the Massachusetts attorney general (AG) against the project in November.