Fight in SC Turns Nasty with One Pipeline Company Attacking Another

We hate to see internal fighting and bickering within the oil and gas industry. We (as an industry) have a hard enough time battling the crazies of the environmental left. Yet infighting has erupted over a plan to run a pipeline to a proposed gas-fired power plant in South Carolina. In February 2024, the South Carolina Public Service Commission approved a proposed project to build a 1,020-megawatt (MW) gas-fired power plant in the state’s Lowcountry, in Colleton County (see SC PSC Approves Gas-Fired Power Plant Proposed for Edisto River). The project is a 50/50 partnership between Dominion Energy (formerly South Carolina Electric & Gas) and Santee Cooper (South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility). The plan calls for Texas-based Kinder Morgan (KM) to build a pipeline to feed the plant. However, there are no details about that pipeline (so far). Another pipeline company, South Carolina-based Carolina Gas Transmission (CGT), wants to build it and called out Dominion and Santee Cooper in a full-page ad.

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