Regulatory

Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania has filed a request with the state’s Public Utility Commission (PUC) asking for a $46.2 million annual revenue increase to help fund $186 million in infrastructure and safety upgrades that it has planned for its 26-county service area this year.

A stay precipitated by the Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) that had delayed preliminary work on Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC’s (Transco) proposed Leidy Southeast expansion has been dissolved by a panel of judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Sempra Energy has asked FERC to begin the prefiling review of its proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Port Arthur, TX, and associated natural gas pipeline project. NextDecade LLC made a similar filing for its LNG project in Brownsville, TX.

ExxonMobil Corp., which holds most of the permits to drill offshore California, has asked to intervene in a lawsuit questioning the federal government’s authority to approve drilling in the region.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Wednesday asked natural gas utilities to weigh in on a staff report that identifies some of the best practices and new technologies in methane leak detection.

After surviving the shale gale, the aborted northern pipeline race and the 2008-2009 recession, the vision of Arctic wealth awaiting drilling beneath Canadian waters of the Beaufort Sea is also outlasting the current natural gas and oil price slump.

The nation’s largest conservation bank — and a first for greater sage grouse — has been established in central Wyoming to provide credits that would allow energy development in other parts of the state.

Texas Gas Transmission LLC is seeking authorization at FERC for its Western Kentucky Lateral Project in Muhlenberg County, KY, which would deliver natural gas to a planned generating unit at Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Paradise Fossil Plant.

The market might not want Tres Palacios Gas Storage LLC’s (TPGS) extra Gulf Coast cavern capacity, but the company can’t abandon it either, FERC said on Thursday.