FERC Aggressively Expands Enforcement, Fines Utica NGL Pipe $30K
Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | M3 Midstream | NGLs | Ohio | Pipelines | Regulation | Statewide OH | Williams
God help you if you are a midstream company that has to wade through the mountain of federal regulations and codes generated by agencies including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and are subject to those agencies' arbitrary decisions on what they will and won't enforce. In what amounts to a game of Simon Says, FERC has just fined M3 Ohio Gathering, Utica East Ohio Midstream, and UEOM NGL Pipelines--all three either current or former owners of two tiny NGL pipelines that flow propane and ethane from the Scio (Ohio) fractionation plant--$30,000 for not filling out a particular form over a six-year period. Thirty grand for a paperwork violation. It is, according to lawyers who watch these things, an escalation, an "aggressive expansion of enforcement" on the part of FERC.
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