Infrastructure

After withering criticism of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) this summer in the U.S. House of Representatives, a bipartisan group of four lawmakers in the Senate has introduced a bill to reauthorize the program through 2019 and make other changes.

Since its discovery almost three weeks ago, a leak at Sempra Energy Southern California Gas Co.’s (SoCalGas) 100 Bcf Aliso Canyon underground storage field has tied up the utility and a cadre of outside well experts who have so far been unable to stop the seepage.

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday vetoed the Port Ambrose Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port, citing security and economic concerns along with the project’s potential to harm offshore wind development.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. confirmed Wednesday it approached Apache Corp. about a potential buyout but was rejected, with no “discussions of substance” occurring.

Five days after President Obama rejected its controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, TransCanada Corp. scored a win south of another border, after Mexico's state-owned Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) selected one of its subsidiaries to build, own and operate the proposed Tuxpan-Tula natural gas pipeline in a 25-year deal valued at $297.1 million.

Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) said one of its subsidiaries has agreed to a joint venture (JV) with a subsidiary of TrailStone Group to form a Mexican company whose task will be to market natural gas to industrial users, power generators and others in the Monterrey area.

In the continuing low price commodity market, growth in the natural gas vehicle (NGV) sector is essentially flat, facing longer paybacks and narrower price differences with diesel, Clean Energy Fuels CEO Andrew Littlefair said Thursday during an earnings conference call.

Rover Pipeline LLC has requested that FERC approve authorization to construct 711 miles of supply laterals and mainlines, compression and other facilities to carry Marcellus and Utica shale gas from West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio to an interconnect with Vector Pipeline in Michigan by the second quarter of 2016.

Hercules Offshore Inc. last week emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but the hard work continues after CEO John Rynd said activity in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) was “lower today than at any time since the early days of the offshore drilling industry.”