Infrastructure

Natural gas is often called a “bridge fuel” to cleaner energy production, but a researcher in the Netherlands believes that natural gas pipelines can be a bridge for the renewable gas hydrogen.

Developments in the natural gas vehicle (NGV) sector accelerated at the end of November, led by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT) request for industry help in developing 37 public access compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations for public transit systems around the state.

Iroquois Gas Transmission Systems LP has signed on to the New England power generator-focused Access Northeast Project of Spectra Energy and Northeast Utilities, the partners said Monday.

The need for a boost for the natural gas vehicle (NGV) sector is recognized on a bipartisan basis in Congress, but how and when it will take shape was still unknown on Wednesday after six industry executives made their case for federal tax incentives at a Senate Finance Committee subcommittee hearing chaired by Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO).

Final investment decisions (FID) for $150 billion worth of projects, including in Canada, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) export proposals in North America, may be deferred or canceled next year as oil prices continue to fall, consulting firm Rystad Energy said Friday.

Williams’ Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC (Transco) recently began service on two expansions along the eastern seaboard: the Northeast Connector Project and partially on the Virginia Southside Expansion Project.

UIL Holdings Corp. has terminated its $1.86 billion agreement to purchase Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW), the nation’s largest municipally-owned gas utility, after the city council’s decision in October to rule out what it deemed a risky sale.

FERC has approved Texas Eastern Transmission LP’s request to construct and operate the Ohio Pipeline Energy Network (OPEN) project, which would carry Marcellus/Utica shale gas to Gulf Coast markets and other markets using interconnections with downstream pipelines.

WGL Midstream has struck a deal to sell up to 430,000 Dth/d of natural gas to GAIL Global (USA) LNG LLC (GGULL) for 20 years. The gas is to be liquefied and exported from the Dominion Cove Point LNG terminal, where GAIL holds capacity, to supply markets in India.