Infrastructure

FERC has approved Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s (TGP) request to place into service the remaining facilities of its MPP Project in Pennsylvania, which would provide producers with an additional 240,000 Dth/d of takeaway capacity to transport gas to Northeast markets.

As an outgrowth of the North American shale revolution, natural gas increasingly will capture a bigger piece of global energy demand with a denser network offering greater flexibility and improved economics, according to a white paper released Friday by General Electric Corp. (GE).

Newport Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp., one of the nation’s largest providers of natural gas transportation fuels and fueling infrastructure, said Monday it has formed a strategic alliance with the transportation finance unit of General Electric Corp. (GE) aimed at heavy duty trucking fleets.

Service was restored late Thursday after repair of a rupture on a remote leg of TransCanada Corp.’s Nova natural gas pipeline grid in Alberta, enabling oilsands plants, which are its primary customers, to resume operating after brief interruptions.

FERC Friday approved Texas Eastern Transmission’s (Tetco) and Algonquin Gas Transmission’s request to place into service an expansion of their systems that would deliver 800,000 Dth/d of Marcellus Shale gas to markets in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.

A New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) plan to have ratepayers subsidize the cost to build new natural gas-fired power plants has been ruled unconstitutional by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

General Motors Co. (GM) CEO Dan Akerson said Wednesday that GM plans to introduce next year a bi-fuel natural gas/gasoline version of its Impala passenger car offering a driving range of up to 500 miles.

A natural gas pipeline rupture on TransCanada’s 1.6 Bcf/d North Central Corridor pipe in northern Alberta that serves Canada’s prime oil sands production area has caused at least two major oil producers to curtail production.

While New England is taking a fuel-neutral approach, it needs to have additional gas infrastructure, said Peter Brandien, vice president of system operations for ISO-New England.