Millennium Pipeline

Enbridge | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | Pipelines | TC Energy/TransCanada

Millennium’s Two New Expansions Set Up Enbridge’s Project Beacon
August 13, 2026August 13, 2026

A new report from RBN Energy fills in a piece of the Project Beacon puzzle we haven’t fully covered: two separate Millennium Pipeline expansions — one already sanctioned, one still on the drawing board — that DT Midstream and TC Energy are advancing to feed New England’s growing appetite for Marcellus/Utica gas. One is moving fast. The other needs New York State’s blessing, which is never a sure thing. Read More “Millennium’s Two New Expansions Set Up Enbridge’s Project Beacon”
DT Midstream | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | NEXUS Pipeline | Pipelines

DTM 2Q: OH Data Center Deal, Gathering Expansion, Millennium Upside
July 31, 2026July 31, 2026

Detroit-based DT Midstream (DTM) reported second quarter 2026 results this week, and while the headline numbers were fine but unremarkable, the Appalachian news buried in the deck is worth your attention. DTM booked net income of $112 million ($1.09 per diluted share) and adjusted EBITDA of $305 million, declared a $0.88 per share dividend, and reaffirmed full-year 2026 adjusted EBITDA guidance of $1.155–$1.225 billion. Fine. Now here’s the part that matters if you own minerals in Belmont County or run a rig crew in Susquehanna County: DTM just signed up a new 380 MMcf/d interconnect on the NEXUS Gas Transmission pipeline that will feed a gas-fired power plant serving a new data center in Ohio — and it’s expanding its Appalachia Gathering System by 100 MMcf/d to shove more supply into NEXUS and Texas Eastern. Read More “DTM 2Q: OH Data Center Deal, Gathering Expansion, Millennium Upside”
DT Midstream | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | NEXUS Pipeline | Pipelines

DT Midstream Eyes Data Center/Power Market for NEXUS Pipeline
October 31, 2025October 31, 2025

DT Midstream (DTM), headquartered in Detroit, owns significant assets in the Marcellus/Utica region, as well as in other regions, including the Haynesville. The company recently issued its third quarter report with some interesting updates. Among the pipeline projects discussed during the update were Vector, Midwestern Gas Transmission, Millennium, and NEXUS. It was chatter about NEXUS and the AI data center market that caught our interest. Read More “DT Midstream Eyes Data Center/Power Market for NEXUS Pipeline”
DT Midstream | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | New York | Pipelines | Statewide NY

DT Midstream Says NYS Must Support Millennium Expansion Before FID
August 19, 2025August 19, 2025

DT Midstream (DTM), headquartered in Detroit, owns major assets in the Marcellus/Utica region and in other regions, such as Haynesville. The company recently issued its second quarter report with some interesting updates on new pipeline projects coming. We’ll discuss those below. However, it was comments about a potential expansion of capacity along the DT-owned Millennium Pipeline (which flows Marcellus molecules) that caught our attention. The company announced an open season in May for added capacity along the Millennium (see Millennium Pipe Open Season for Expanded Capacity in NY, New England). Where does that stand now? Has the company decided to move forward? Read More “DT Midstream Says NYS Must Support Millennium Expansion Before FID”
DT Midstream | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | New York | Pipelines | Statewide NY | TC Energy/TransCanada

Millennium Pipe Open Season for Expanded Capacity in NY, New England
May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

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The Millennium Pipeline, which stretches 263 miles from Corning, NY, to just outside New York City, delivers Pennsylvania Marcellus and Utica gas to utility and power plant markets across New York State and New England. Several companies jointly own the pipeline, which operates under its own corporate structure. In 2022, DT Midstream became the majority owner with 52.5% (see DT Midstream Becomes Majority Owner of Millennium Pipeline). The minority owner, TC Energy (47.5%), is the pipeline operator. On a conference call with analysts to discuss first quarter results, DT Midstream discussed something we were unaware of: Millennium is conducting an open season to gauge interest in expanding the pipeline’s capacity to deliver more M-U molecules to New York and New England markets. UPDATE: We have a copy of the official open season document below.
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DT Midstream | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | NEXUS Pipeline | Pipelines

DT Midstream 3Q: Ohio Utica Sys Almost Done, NEXUS Adds 50 MMcf/d
November 2, 2023November 2, 2023

DT Midstream (DTM), headquartered in Detroit, owns major assets in the Marcellus/Utica region and other regions (like the Haynesville). DTM issued its third quarter 2023 update yesterday. Items related to the M-U of note is that construction of the Ohio Utica System, a new greenfield gathering system in the Ohio Utica for EOG Resources, is progressing ahead of schedule with an expected in-service date of 1Q24. DTM also announced the NEXUS Pipeline added approximately 50 MMcf/d of additional leased capacity in 3Q.
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Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | M&A | Millennium Pipeline | Pipelines | TC Energy/TransCanada

TC Energy Looking to Sell Share in Millennium, PNGTS, Other Pipes
October 30, 2023November 2, 2023

TransCanada Corporation, which renamed itself TC Energy in 2019, bought out and merged in U.S.-based Columbia Pipeline Group (now Columbia Gas Transmission) in 2016 (see TransCanada and Columbia Pipeline Tie the Knot Today). TransCanada paid $13 billion for Columbia, including the assumption of $2.8 billion of debt. In July, TC Energy announced it was selling a 40% stake in Columbia for US$3.9 billion (C$5.2 billion) to investment firm Global Infrastructure Partners. TC completed the sale earlier this month (see TC Energy Completes Sale of 40% Interest in Columbia Pipe to GIP). Looks like TC isn’t done yet with selling pieces of assets. Secret sources whispering to Bloomberg say that TC wants to sell minority (or all) interests in four pipeline systems, three of which move Marcellus/Utica molecules.
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DT Midstream | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | Pipelines

DT Midstream Becomes Majority Owner of Millennium Pipeline
October 6, 2022October 6, 2022

The Millennium Pipeline, which stretches 263 miles from Corning, NY, to just outside New York City, delivers Pennsylvania Marcellus and Utica gas to utility and power plant markets across New York State and into New England. Several companies jointly own the pipeline, which operates under its own corporate structure. Among those with an ownership interest are TC Energy (formerly TransCanada), utility giant National Grid, and pipeline company DT Midstream. Last week DT Midstream announced it would double its ownership stake in the Millennium from 26.25% to 52.50%. DT will pay $552 million to become the majority owner of the Millennium Pipeline.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Millennium Pipeline | Pipelines | Regulation

Fed Court Tosses Dela. Riverkeeper Lawsuit Against Millennium Pipe
December 19, 2019December 19, 2019

In what has become an ongoing pattern, THE Delaware Riverkeeper (aka Maya van Rossum) has lost yet another lawsuit (in federal court) against a pipeline project–in this case the Millennium Pipeline expansion project called the Eastern System Upgrade.
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Anti-Drilling/Fossil Fuel | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | New York | Orange County | Pipelines | Regulation | Rockland County | Sullivan County

FERC Rejects Riverkeeper re Millennium Eastern System Upgrade
July 23, 2018July 23, 2018

In August 2016, Millennium Pipeline, which stretches from Corning, NY to just outside New York City, filed an application for what it calls its Eastern System Upgrade (see Millennium Pipe Asks FERC to Approve Eastern System Upgrade in NY). The ESU would add 7.8 miles of extra looped pipeline in Orange County, upgrade a compressor station in Delaware County, build a new compressor in Sullivan County and make some minor tweaks to metering stations in Rockland County. In something of a miracle, the NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation granted permits for the project (see NY DEC Grants Permit for Millennium Pipe Eastern System Upgrade). Predictably, THE Delaware Riverkeeper, hater of all things fossil fuel, moved for a “stay” to block construction and filed a request for rehearing with FERC, and at the same time filed a lawsuit against the DEC’s water permit approval. In March FERC rejected Riverkeeper’s request for a stay, but not the rehearing (see FERC Rejects Riverkeeper Request to Stop Millennium Eastern Upgrade). The other shoe dropped last week when FERC rejected the request by Riverkeeper (and an anti from Orange County) for a rehearing. But not without some drama. In what has become a repeating pattern, the two Democrat members of FERC wanted a rehearing to consider mythical man-made global warming impacts from the project. It’s total horse manure, but there you go. This is how it’s going to be from here on out. The Democrats have politicized everything, even non-controversial pipeline projects like this one…
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Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | New York | Orange County | Pipelines | Regulation

Millennium Lateral Pipe to NY Gas-Fired Elec Plant Begins Service
July 10, 2018July 10, 2018

This is a red-letter day indeed! We have waited so long for this day to arrive. Andrew Cuomo (ignominious governor of NY) has lost his battle to stop a short, 7.8 mile pipeline, a lateral/offshoot of the main Millennial Pipeline, to flow Marcellus gas to a newly completed gas-fired electric generating plant in Wawayanda (Orange County), NY. Yesterday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted permission for Millennium’s Valley Lateral pipeline to begin operation. As we previously reported, once the gas is flowing to the Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) Valley Energy Center, the plant itself will begin operation (see Orange County, NY Electric Plant to Start Up in June). We’re a little delayed. It’s not June, as originally forecast, but hey, early July is A.O.K. As you read this, gas is flowing through the Valley Lateral to the CPV plant. Following yesterday’s announcement, CPV said it will begin final testing of the plant this week, and the plant will go operational in August. Woo hoo!…
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Electrical Generation | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | New York | Orange County | Pipelines

Orange County, NY Electric Plant to Start Up in June
May 9, 2018May 9, 2018

As the Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) Valley Energy Center natural gas-fired electric generating plant in Orange County, NY gets ready to begin service, some of the neighbors are not happy with noises coming from the plant. They hope local town officials can meet with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and convince him to lean on the Dept. of Environmental Conservation to revoke permits for the plant that CPV just spent almost a billion dollars to build. We told you a month ago the only sliver of a hope antis have to prevent the plant from starting up is to convince the DEC to block it (see Big Green Begs NY DEC to Revoke Orange Co. Power Plant Permits). It’s not beyond the realm of possibility, but also not likely that the DEC will step in now. At a Wawayanda Town Board meeting last Thursday residents and town leaders discussed the noise issue and what to do about it, which is the focus of the article below. However, one tiny reference in the article is what caught our attention. The plant is waiting for a pipeline “lateral” from the Millennium Pipeline to be completed to flow natgas to the plant, which is what will fire the plant. You may recall the DEC tried to block that pipeline and was overruled by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The DEC took FERC to court and the DEC lost (see Court Rejects NY DEC Attempt to Stop Short Power Plant Pipeline). The short 7.8-mile “Valley Lateral” pipeline is now almost complete. According to the article below (and the thing that caught our attention) is that CPV expects the pipeline to be done and flowing natural gas to the plant in June. When it does, the plant will start up…
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Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | Pipelines | Regulation

FERC Rejects Riverkeeper Request to Stop Millennium Eastern Upgrade
March 23, 2018July 23, 2018

In August 2016, Millennium Pipeline, which stretches from Corning, NY to just outside New York City, filed an application for what it calls its Eastern System Upgrade (see Millennium Pipe Asks FERC to Approve Eastern System Upgrade in NY). The ESU would add 7.8 miles of extra looped pipeline in Orange County, upgrade a compressor station in Delaware County, build a new compressor in Sullivan County and make some minor tweaks to metering stations in Rockland County. In something of a miracle, the NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation granted permits for the project (see NY DEC Grants Permit for Millennium Pipe Eastern System Upgrade). Predictably, THE Delaware Riverkeeper, hater of all things fossil fuel, moved for a “stay” to block construction and filed a request for rehearing with FERC, and at the same time filed a lawsuit against the DEC’s water permit approval (see Frenemies: Millennium & NY DEC Fight Riverkeeper on Pipeline Upgrade). FERC has just rejected Riverkeeper’s request for a stay (but not the rehearing)…
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Electrical Generation | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Millennium Pipeline | New York | Orange County | Pipelines | Regulation

Court Rejects NY DEC Attempt to Stop Short Power Plant Pipeline
March 13, 2018March 13, 2018

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The Andrew Cuomo-corrupted New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is now out of options in its quest to block a tiny, 7.8-mile pipeline that would connect the Millennium Pipeline to a gas-fired electric generating plant under construction in Orange County, NY. Yesterday the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition by the DEC asking the court to vacate two orders by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) allowing the pipeline to continue construction. Which means construction on the pipeline has restarted and will almost certainly be completed within a month. The plant the pipeline will feed, Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) Valley Energy Center, is wrapping up construction. Recently antis had a cow when they saw steam coming from the plant, part of the commissioning process (see Antis Apoplectic at Sight of Steam Coming from NY Power Plant). Before the new plant can go online, it needs fuel, which is why the Millennium project is so important. Now that the 2nd Circuit has rejected its petition, the DEC says it is still “reviewing its options” with respect to “next steps.” Frankly, there are no options and no next steps. The Cuomo-corrupted DEC has lost…
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Electrical Generation | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Millennium Pipeline | New York | Orange County | Pipelines | Regulation

NY DEC Asks Court to Toss FERC Order re Millennium Pipe Project
January 22, 2018January 22, 2018

Millennium Pipeline is building a tiny, 7.8 mile pipeline in Orange County, NY that will connect the main Millennium pipeline to the CPV Valley Energy Center gas-fired electric plant. Both projects are currently under construction. Millennium’s project, called the Valley Lateral Project, was opposed by the corrupt Andrew Cuomo Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The DEC refused to grant necessary permits for the federal project, so the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted to overrule DEC and allow it to be built anyway (see History Made! FERC Overrules NY DEC on Millennium Pipe Permit). The DEC took FERC to court, but in December, the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the DEC’s request to block the beginning of construction (see Fed Court Denies NY DEC Bid to Block Power Plant Pipe Construction). Construction subsequently began immediately. The DEC, no doubt goosed on by the corrupt Cuomo, has just come back to the Second Circuit with a different request. This time the DEC wants the court toss out FERC’s approval of the project, saying if the FERC approval stands, any company could file a half-baked (i.e. “incomplete” according to DEC standards) application for a water crossing permit and that doesn’t give DEC enough time to chase in a completed application. In other words, companies would “run out the clock” by saying DEC took more than a year to approve an application. DEC calls it “sandbagging” by delaying important information. Somehow DEC’s protestations ring particularly hollow, since they themselves are famous for sandbagging…
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Delaware County | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Millennium Pipeline | New York | Orange County | Pipelines | Regulation | Rockland County | Statewide NY | Sullivan County

FERC Approves Millennium Pipe’s Eastern System Upgrade in NY
December 20, 2017December 20, 2017

The Millennium Pipeline stretches ~244 miles from Independence in Steuben County, NY to Buena Vista in Rockland County, NY. The Millennium, which is supplied by local production and storage fields and interconnecting upstream pipelines, serves customers along its route in New York’s Southern Tier region and helps meet the energy needs of northeast markets. In August 2016, the Millennium filed an application for what it calls its Eastern System Upgrade (see Millennium Pipe Asks FERC to Approve Eastern System Upgrade in NY). The ESU would add 7.8 miles of extra looped pipeline in Orange County, upgrade a compressor station in Delaware County, build a new compressor in Sullivan County and make some minor tweaks to metering stations in Rockland County. In late March the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a favorable environmental assessment for the project (see FERC Favorable EA for Millennium Pipeline Eastern System Upgrade). In what can only be described as completely out of character, the corrupt New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) also approved the project, in early September (see NY DEC Grants Permit for Millennium Pipe Eastern System Upgrade). Yesterday FERC gave Millennium permission to begin construction on essentially all of the project, with one tiny exception…
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