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Mountain Valley Pipe Defends Southgate Expansion into NC

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

A month ago MDN told you that EQT Midstream’s (now Equitrans) 300-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from West Virginia to southern Virginia is now 70% done (see Shocker: Mountain Valley Pipeline Now 70% Built, Online by 4Q19). We expect that number is even higher now.
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Riverkeeper Appeals Atlantic Sunrise Lawsuit to US Supreme Court

January 10, 2019January 12, 2019

Maya van Rossum, THE Delaware Riverkeeper

THE Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya van Rossum, along with a couple of radicals from Lancaster County flying under the name Lancaster Against Pipelines (the Clatterbucks), are hoping they can convince the United States Supreme Court to consider a case that a series of lower courts have dismissed–a case that would shut down the now-operating Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.
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Energy Services | TC Energy/TransCanada

TransCanada Changing Name to TC Energy

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

TransCanada is undergoing a name change, from TransCanada to TC Energy, in order to more accurately reflect the fact they operate in more than just Canada.
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Va. State Agency Approves Atlantic Coast Pipe Compressor Stn

January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

Artists rendering of ACP Buckingham County compress station (click for larger version)

Finally a little good news for Dominion Energy’s 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline project: The Virginia State Air Quality Board voted yesterday 4-0 to approve a compressor station for the pipeline in Buckingham County.
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Range SWPA Production Takes Hit After MarkWest Plant Explosion

January 8, 2019January 8, 2019

Range Resources issued an updated 2018 (not 2019) capital spending and operational update yesterday to say (a) they spent about $20 million less last year than originally forecast and (b) the company took a hit on production because of an outage at the MarkWest Houston/Harmon Creek processing facilities.
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Out-of-Control Mass. AG Tries to Block More NatGas to Boston

January 8, 2019December 23, 2019

Does Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey actually *want* citizens living in Boston to be denied natural gas to heat their homes in the dead of a New England winter? It sure seems that way.
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Energy Services | Equitrans/EQT Midstream | MarkWest Energy

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Best Pipeline Co of Them All?

January 8, 2019January 8, 2019

The results are in from a recently released 2018 Oil & Gas Midstream Services Customer Satisfaction Survey conducted by EnergyPoint Research. This year’s top overall rating for the country’s best midstream (i.e. pipeline) company goes to…
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Chester County DA Gets “Free” Help with ME2 Pipe Criminal Probe

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019

Tom Hogan – Chester Co. DA with vendetta against ME2

RINO (Democrat wannabe) Tom Hogan, District Attorney for Chester County, PA, continues his vendetta against Sunoco Logistics Partners and the Mariner East 2 pipeline–foolishly spending gobs of taxpayer money in a frivolous and fruitless investigation (see Chester County DA Goes Rogue, Targets ME2 Pipe w/Criminal Probe).
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NJ’s Dem AG Lectures Fed Judge re PennEast Eminent Domain

January 7, 2019January 7, 2019

New Jersey’s radical Democrat Attorney General, Gurbir Grewal, is telling (off) a federal judge, telling him he erred in a recent decision that allows PennEast Pipeline to use the power of eminent domain to access 44 so-called “protected” properties owned by the Garden State (see Federal Court in NJ Grants PennEast Pipeline Eminent Domain).
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Williams Gulf Connector Goes Online – M-U Gas to Corpus Christi?

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019

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

January 4, 2019January 4, 2019

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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Dominion Energy | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | Litigation | Pipelines

Court Delays Costing Atlantic Coast Pipe $20M per Week

January 4, 2019January 9, 2019

Disappointingly, the Fourth Circus Court of Appeals has turned down Dominion Energy’s request to move up oral arguments (from March to end of January) in a case that has shut down work along the entire 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
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Ohio Cracker Now has All Key Regulatory Permits – Still no FID

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

Is anyone surprised that the $6 billion ethane cracker plant complex proposed by PTT Global Chemical for Belmont County, OH did not, as previously promised, announce a final investment decision (FID) in 2018? We sure weren’t.
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Maryland Pulls a NY, Rejects Pipeline Under Potomac River

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

We’ve said it before and will say it again: Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan is a major disappointment. Somehow radical leftists have politically emasculated Hogan and now lead him around by the nose (see Maryland Gov. Hogan Pulls the Trigger, Commits Fracking Suicide).
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Too Funny! Angry “Reporters” Call Mariner East 2 “Frankenpipe”

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

You know you’ve hit a nerve when so-called reporters (propagandists) at a Philadelphia-area newspaper drop all pretense of being objective in their reporting and begin calling a pipeline project made-up names–like calling Mariner East 2 “Frankenpipe.” Talk about petulant and childish!
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Dominion Energy | Energy Services | Industrywide Issues | M&A

Dominion/SCANA Merger Complete, Creating New M-U Market

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

One year ago, in January 2018, Dominion Energy announced a deal to buy out and merge in South Carolina-based SCANA Corporation (see Dominion Buys SCANA, Mulls Atlantic Coast Pipe Expansion into SC). That merger, a year later, is now complete.
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