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Williams Gulf Connector Goes Online – M-U Gas to Corpus Christi?

Cheniere Corpus Christi LNG facility (click for larger version)

On Wednesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted approval to Williams to begin full service on their Transco Gulf Connector Expansion Project, flowing 400 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of natural gas to Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi LNG export plant (which is powering up now), and later this year, another 75 MMcf/d to the Freeport LNG export plant.
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Maryland Pipeline Rejection Jeopardizes 6,000 Customers, Jobs

WUSA, CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C. quotes MDN in broadcast

The State of Maryland, via its rejection of a tiny 3.5-mile pipeline project that will travel under the Potomac River, is putting more than 6,000 natural gas customers and hundreds of jobs at risk on the other side of the river in West Virginia.
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PA DEP Eagerly Anticipates Millions of Dollars from Strippers

The bureaucrats at the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) are rubbing their hands together, eagerly anticipating millions of dollars to roll through the door and into the agency’s pockets following a recent PA Supreme Court ruling on strippers (see PA Supreme Court Rules Strippers Not Exempt from Impact Fee).
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Energy Stories of Interest: Fri, Jan 4, 2019

The “best of the rest”–stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: Jennifer Huntington: The forgotten woman we can’t forget; Luzerne County taking applications for Marcellus Shale grants; South Texas feedgas demand ramping up with Corpus Christi LNG; American oil is coming to flood the market. Or is it?; The other shales; 2019 could make or break OPEC; IMO 2020’s effect on prices for crude, refined products and refinery residue.
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