Infrastructure

Three new interstate natural gas pipeline projects were placed into service in the month of November, two more picked up certification and six additional proposed projects were filed, according to FERC’s monthly Energy Infrastructure Update published by the Office of Energy Projects.

One of two technology advances for the use of adsorbent natural gas (ANG) fuel tanks in natural gas vehicles (NGV) has been installed in a commercial fleet van by California-based Cenergy Solutions.

Separate federal and state probes are now underway in California as the Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage well leak continues to draw the spotlight. The leaking well in the foothills northwest of downtown Los Angeles has officials focusing on unanswered questions regarding the volumes of methane escaping into the atmosphere and the extent to which over-pressurization led to the well failure.

The Christmas weekend brought mixed news for Southern California Gas Co.’s (SoCalGas) efforts to contain a two-month-old natural gas well leak at its Aliso Canyon underground storage field 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

FERC’s Office of Energy Projects (OEP) published its environmental assessment Monday for the Loudon Expansion Project proposed by Spectra Energy Partners subsidiary East Tennessee Natural Gas LLC.

A midstream subsidiary of the Energy Corporation of America (ECA) has applied with FERC requesting jurisdiction for an existing natural gas gathering system in northwestern Pennsylvania to serve a power plant in the region.

Regulators in Massachusetts have asked FERC to conduct an environmental review of Spectra Energy Corp.’s Atlantic Bridge Project, arguing that the cumulative impacts of the project — especially from a new compressor station to be built in Weymouth, MA — warrant such a review.

A proposal by HIOS (High Island Offshore System) LLC to abandon 66 miles of mainline pipe to be repurposed for an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal has drawn multiple protests at FERC from various shippers/producers.

A proposed 21.6-mile, 24-inch diameter natural gas pipeline to serve the B.L. England power plant at Beesley’s Point, NJ, and to increase service reliability in Atlantic and Cape May counties, “is reasonably necessary for the service, convenience or welfare of the public,” according to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU), which has approved South Jersey Gas Company’s (SJG) petition for the project.