Infrastructure

Western Canadian natural gas suppliers expect to keep on losing sales to rival U.S. merchants in Ontario, Quebec and the northeastern United States.

Equitrans LP has submitted an application to FERC for its $172 million Equitrans Expansion project in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, which would provide up to 600,000 Dth/d of incremental north-south capacity and bring natural gas from the Appalachian Basin to market.

Dallas-based private equity firm Panda Power Funds LP has secured $835 million in private financing to begin work on one of the nation’s largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in central Pennsylvania.

Construction of a major natural gas-fired power plant and the possibility of rate-based gas reserves are part of Portland General Electric Co.’s (PGE) immediate future, PGE CEO Jim Piro told financial analysts on a 3Q2015 earnings conference call Tuesday. He called the utility’s future need for natural gas “significant.”

Cheniere Marketing International LLP (CMI), a subsidiary of Cheniere Energy, said Wednesday it has a five-year agreement (SPA) with France’s ENGIE SA to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes on an ex-ship basis to the Montoir de Bretagne LNG regasification terminal in France.

Midstream megadeals dominated U.S. oil and natural gas transactions during the third quarter, despite the slowdown in capital markets, PwC US reported Wednesday.

The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Electric Power Monthly report for August issued this week is pointing to coal’s continued slide as the fuel of choice for power generators, while natural gas continued to take more market share.

As Spectra Energy Corp. moves forward with a trio of natural gas projects in New England, a top executive said the pipeline industry should focus on meeting the demands of FERC rather than placating pipelines foes, and said a shortage of qualified contractors to build pipelines in New England could have an impact in as little as two years.

TransCanada Corp. has completed acquiring all government permits to lay the jumbo northern pipeline required by the Asian entry in the lineup of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal projects on the Pacific Coast of British Columbia.