Onerous New Regs for PA Liquids Pipes, Landmen Go Live in November

In 2019, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) began formulating new regulations for intrastate pipelines transporting gasoline, petroleum, crude oil, and natural gas liquids like ethane. In July 2021, the PUC finally published a draft of new regulations (see PA PUC Proposes New Regs for Pipelines—Landmen Must be Licensed). The onerous regulations landed with a thud. The DEP and antis loved them; the oil and gas industry hated them. After another two years of tinkering, the PUC’s regs, all 314 pages of them, were approved in June and are about to be adopted as the equivalent of law in the Keystone State when they are published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin this month. They will become the equivalent of law (go into effect) in November.

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