Tulsa-Based Superior Pipeline Changed Ownership and Name
Superior Pipeline, headquartered in Oklahoma, operates in the following geographic areas: the Texas/Oklahoma panhandle, Central/Western Oklahoma, Southeastern Oklahoma, Southeast Texas, Kansas, and Appalachia, including Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Superior owns and operates natural gas gathering and processing facilities, natural gas treating plants, and over 3,700 miles of pipeline. Unit Corporation, which had owned 50% of Superior, recently finished selling its 50% share to OPTrust and Partners Group. With the sale, the new 100% owners have changed the name of the company from Superior Pipeline to Superior Midstream.
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Finally! On Monday, Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) builder Equitrans asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for permission to restart all remaining construction to install the final 6% of MVP in West Virginia and Virginia. Yesterday, FERC issued that permission. Ladies and gentlemen, start your bulldozers! Company spokeswoman Natalie Cox said crews will begin work “shortly” on all remaining construction. We don’t know what shortly means, but we hope it means this week.
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It really is sad (and angering) to behold the tactics of the left. Their favorite #1 tactic is fear. If the left can convince you the end is near à la “climate change” and “ticking time bomb pipelines” and “bomb trains” and “radiation” and “water contamination” and other incendiary (false) claims about fossil energy, they have you. The left thought it had won the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) battle and had stopped this 94% completed project cold. But then Congress passed the “debt ceiling” bill that forces the completion of MVP (see 
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