Regulatory

FERC released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) Friday for the Rover Pipeline Project, bringing the major Appalachian takeaway pipe one step closer to construction.

The potential failure of subsea bolts used in offshore oil and gas installations has led the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) to call on the industry to help address “significant safety concerns.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has approved most of the remaining federal permits required for Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) to complete construction of the 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline across four states.

FERC has issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) of the Northern Access project proposed by National Fuel Gas Supply Corp. and Empire Pipeline Inc.

It isn’t clear when the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will begin again with an overhaul of environmental regulations for the state’s ailing conventional industry after the General Assembly approved legislation last month to scrap a package that took more than five years to draft.

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a proposed plan that it said provides a balance between energy development and conservation for an area of southeastern Utah, but the oil and gas industry slammed it as “redundant.”

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management said Monday it will conduct environmental review for a proposed oil and gas production well in the 23 million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). If approved, the Greater Mooses Tooth-2 (GMT2) project would be the second oil and gas development project authorized on federal lands in the NPR-A.

Canada announced an accelerated safety schedule Monday for stopping railway crude oil deliveries with an old generation of accident-prone tank cars that had a role in a Quebec tragedy three years ago.

FERC signaled its support for two stalled projects on Tuesday, granting separate extensions to Constitution Pipeline LLC to complete its embattled natural gas pipeline in New York State and Pennsylvania, and to Dominion Transmission Inc. to finish its Clarington project.