According to Platts Analytics, natural gas deliveries to Elba Island LNG, located along the shore near Savannah, Georgia, totaled 230 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) yesterday, up from 150 MMcf/d the day before and some 41% higher than the average use of 163 MMcf/d over the previous 30 days.
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Early last week MDN shared the great news that Enbridge’s Weymouth, Mass. compressor station finally, after years of government delays in building it, went online (see Weymouth, MA Compressor Station Now Online – Will it Stay Online?). As our headline last week teased, the question now is whether or not it will remain online. What could possibly cause it to shut down again? The answer may surprise you.
Read More “Antis Pressure FERC for Hearing to Shut Down Weymouth Compressor”
Earlier this week MDN brought you the big news that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear the PennEast Pipeline vs. New Jersey eminent domain case (see BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court to Decide PennEast Pipeline Case). Read that previous post for background on why this is a critically important case. In December the Trump Solicitor General’s office filed a brief in the case, at the request of the Supremes (see Trump Solicitor General Supports PennEast Pipe Case in Supreme Crt). It’s no surprise that the Trump administration supported the PennEast position. What IS a surprise for us is that the Biden administration will likely support PennEast’s position too.
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Yeah, well, you can’t say we didn’t warn you (and President Trump) about former NRDC lawyer and extremist radical Allison Clements. Clements should never have been appointed to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as a commissioner by Trump (see U.S. Senate Confirms Radical NRDC Lawyer as FERC Commissioner). In a recent “wide-ranging” interview, Clements trash-talked both the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and PennEast Pipeline projects and said the process for permitting all natural gas pipelines is “broken.” And she’s just the person to “fix” it. Neuter is more like the word.
Read More “FERC Commissioner Clements Trash Talks MVP, PennEast, All Pipes”
HUGE news! This morning the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear the PennEast Pipeline case. The case appeals a lower court ruling that disallows PennEast from using eminent domain to build across land owned or controlled by the State of New Jersey. The court’s acceptance of the case is an excellent sign PennEast will win the case–which is important not only for PennEast but all future pipeline projects in “blue” states.
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We continue to peel back the layers of the rotten, smelly, stinky onion that is Ohio’s House Bill (HB) 6, a law granting billions (plural) to FirstEnergy in an attempt to prop up the company’s economically failing nuclear power plants. FirstEnergy is accused of bribing legislators to pass, and keep passed, HB 6 by paying out $60 million (see FirstEnergy Involved in Bribery Scheme to Pass $1B Nuke Bailout Law). It is the biggest bribery scandal in Ohio history. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has been hammering FirstEnergy with lawsuits since the bribery scandal was first revealed. It looks like Yost (and consequently Ohio residents AND the Ohio Utica Shale industry) has won.
Read More “Ohio AG Succeeds in Blocking $2B in Nuke Payments to FirstEnergy”
After Joe Biden signed an Executive Order in his first few days on the job killing the Keystone XL pipeline project (instantly throwing 11,000 union members of out high-paying jobs), anti-fossil fuel nuts have been salivating (drooling, actually) in anticipation of what else old dementia Joe will do next to kill off other pipeline projects, including Equitrans’ Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). One of Big Green’s trusty mouthpieces at the AP has penned a wishlist for which projects may get the ax next, and how it will happen.
Read More “Antis Drool Over Actions Biden May Take to Block Pipes Incl. MVP”
On Friday the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted its approval to Williams to begin construction on the Leidy South Project in central Pennsylvania. The purpose of the Leidy South Project, which is part of the mighty Transco pipeline, is to connect robust supplies of natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica producing regions in Pennsylvania with markets along the Atlantic Seaboard by the 2021-2022 winter heating season.
Read More “FERC OKs Small Portion of Leidy South Pipe Work in Central PA”
The world’s largest producer of wind and solar energy, NextEra Energy, also happens to be a major investor in the 303-mile Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project. On Tuesday NextEra announced it recorded a loss in fourth-quarter 2020, mainly because of a $1.2 billion write down on its investment in MVP. But have no fear, “write down” does not mean “write off.”
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In December, the Maryland Board of Public Works (BPW), which has three members (two leftwing Democrats and RINO Gov. Larry Hogan), surprisingly approved a 10-inch, 6.83-mile pipeline for the Maryland portion of a 19+ mile project called the Del-Mar Energy Pathway Project, crossing both Delaware and Maryland (see Maryland Board of Public Works Approves Tiny Pipe in Eastern Shore). There is one final bit of that project, several miles that needs a wetlands permit in Maryland in order to build. BPW voted unanimously yesterday to approve the permit.
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U.S. pipeline companies are under no illusion of just how bad the next four years will be for their business, at least for building new pipelines. We told you last week that Williams CEO Alan Armstrong predicted there will be no new greenfield pipelines built during the Biden administration (see Williams CEO Alan Armstrong Says Biden Era Means No New Pipelines). Kinder Morgan (KM) is now chiming in with the same sentiment. So what IS the way forward for these big companies, if they want to continue growing? Answer…
Read More “New Strategy for Pipe Cos. – Buy Existing Pipes Rather than Build”
Equitrans Midstream’s Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), which stretches 303 miles from Wetzel County, WV to Pittsylvania County, VA, is backed into a corner by anti-fossil fuelers. The project is 92% complete and in the ground, yet somehow antis have successfully blocked an Army Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit 12 (NWP12) that allows the project to cross creeks and rivers and mud puddles. Antis have convinced three leftist judges on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the NWP12 permit–twice. But, MVP has just outmaneuvered the antis.
Read More “MVP Filing New/Revised Request to Finish Almost-Done Pipe”
Now that Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) has outsmarted radicalized environmental groups like the odious Sierra Club by changing the type of permit they will use to finish the 92% complete project (see today’s lead story), antis are hoping to continue blocking the project by convincing the Democrat judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a FERC order from last December that allows MVP to resume certain portions of construction (see FERC Approves Another 17 Miles of MVP Construction Near Natl Forest).
Read More “Big Green Groups Sue FERC to Block MVP from Finishing”
Members of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) announced yesterday a set of climate change commitments that outline in detail its mission to help address climate change, including working together as an industry towards reaching net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from natural gas transmission and storage by 2050. INGAA members pledging to hit that target include the biggest pipeline companies in the M-U, including Williams, Kinder Morgan, and Enbridge.
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Finally! The Weymouth compressor station, the final piece of the $452 million Atlantic Bridge expansion project that has been years in the making, is either now online and flowing gas, or will be within a day or two at most. However, given a vote last week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) questioning whether or not enough consideration was given to protesting antis, a cloud remains as to how long (in a Biden-controlled FERC) the compressor will remain online.
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In March 2019 MDN brought you the news that Wood Group had been awarded a $34 million contract to build 28 miles of the 60-mile Risberg Pipeline from Crawford County, PA to Ashtabula County, OH (see Wood Wins $34M Contract to Build PA to OH Risberg Pipeline). The portion Wood built was new “greenfield” pipeline. The rest of the pipeline (32 miles) already existed and was repurposed. There is a controversy between Wood and RH energytrans (the owner) concerning payment, so Wood is going after the landowners whose property the pipeline traverses.
Read More “Liens Served on PA/OH Landowner Property re Risberg Pipeline”