Monday, November 18, 2024

After Approving 7 Pipelines in 2017, FERC is Dead in the Water

FERC is out of gas without a quorum For years, Marcellus and Utica natural gas transportation bottlenecks have seen producers crying for more takeaway capacity to move produced natural gas out of Appalachia. And just when they started to get some relief from FERC-approved pipeline projects, FERC ran out of gas—at least temporarily. So far in 2017, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Moving Gas: FERC Approves Construction of TransCanada’s Leach XPress and Rayne XPress Pipelines

Moving Gas: FERC Approves Construction of TransCanada’s Leach XPress and Rayne XPress Pipelines

Marcellus, Utica natural gas producers take a step closer to U.S. Gulf Coast markets “The Marcellus and Utica basins – the fastest-growing natural gas supply region in North America – have the lowest development and production costs along with the highest growth prospects of any large basin on the continent.” That’s how TransCanada (ticker: TRP) characterized the upside for Appalachian

FERC Says ‘No’ to Jordan Cove, Again

  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday rejected the pending requests for a re-hearing by the Jordan Cove Energy Project L.P., Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, the State of Wyoming and the Wyoming Pipeline Authority. The commission orders read as follows: (A) Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P’s and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, LP’s request to reopen the record is denied.

Environmental Movement Targets FERC to Stop New Pipelines – An Exclusive Interview

U.S. Shale Gas Needs More Pipelines to Move the Gas to Market, but Anti-Fossil Fuel Groups are Out to Stop Pipelines In the past ten years, the shale revolution has changed the U.S. energy landscape. The economic extraction of oil and gas from shale deposits has opened new oil and natural gas supplies in North America, presented new opportunities for

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Interstate NatGas Pipeline Applicants Must Include 19 Exhibits: FERC

New Rule Reinstates Pipeline Application Requirement Effective March 22, 2016, FERC has made a correction to the requirements for those applying for interstate natural gas pipeline approval. The change reinstates the exhibits required to be attached to each certificate application by interstate natural gas pipelines. The rule is available at the Federal Register online here. Summary information for the new FERC

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Jordan Cove Receives Final Environmental Approval for $7 Billion LNG Project

FERC approves the first West Coast LNG Export Facility The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave its final environmental approval for the Jordan Cove LNG project and the Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline in Oregon, according to a FERC release. The project is the first liquefied natural gas terminal on the West Coast, and will deliver natural gas produced in the

Hatch, Barrasso and Enzi Introduce Senate Bill to Stop Frac Regulation Duplicity

Murkowski/Cantwell’s Energy Modernization Bill Would Accelerate FERC’s LNG Decisions to 45 Days

Bipartisan bill hopes to renovate U.S. energy policy, facilitate infrastructure updates, protect the grid from attack, modernize SPR, identify “critical mineral supply”, fix national park maintenance backlog Earlier this week, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) released a proposed energy bill that hopes to modernize energy policy

U.S. DOE Releases First Quadrennial Energy Review

QER Calls for Modernizing the Nation’s NatGas Transmission and Distribution Systems On April 21, the administration released the first installment of its first Quadrennial Energy Review (QER), described as the first-ever comprehensive study of the nation’s energy infrastructure, which identifies the threats, risks, and opportunities for U.S. energy and climate security, with the goal of enabling the federal government to

Cameron LNG Set to Become Largest U.S. Export Facility

If Approved, New Export Capacity would Exceed 3.5 Bcf/d Sempra Energy’s (ticker: SRE) Cameron LNG plant, located in Hackberry, Louisiana, is about to get bigger. Representatives for the $10 billion LNG export plant applied for a facility expansion on February 24, 2015 – roughly four months after construction began. If approved, the expansion will provide an additional storage tank along

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Bill to Speed Up LNG Export Permits Delayed for Now

Republican Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota is holding back his legislation to fast-track the Energy Department’s reviews of LNG exports for now, reports E&E News. Hoeven said he made this decision after talking to Department of Energy (DOE) head Ernest Moniz in order to garner more support for the bill before it goes to the Senate. The bill would