Bluegrass Pipeline Makes Progress in Bluegrass State
In early September, MDN reported that Williams and Boardwalk Partners, joint venture partners building a natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline that will stretch from the Utica/Marcellus all the way to the Gulf Coast, had hit some problems in crossing Kentucky (see Bluegrass NGL Pipeline Hits Brick Wall in the Bluegrass State).
The companies now report they have landowner agreements in place for nine of 13 counties they need to cross in KY, so progress is definitely being made…
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It’s a sad day for New York landowners–for everyone really. Norse Energy has converted from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which means the courts protect you while you regroup, to Chapter 7, which means break it all up and sell off the pieces to the highest bidder. Norse has now literally, as well as figuratively, shut off the lights and closed the door behind them. The remaining eight employees of Norse have just been let go.
Will the northeast ever get an ethane cracker plant to handle the massive amount of ethane being produced in wet gas areas of western PA, eastern OH and the panhandle of WV? Some people think so (MDN among them), although each year that goes by without a cracker it seems less likely because of new ethane and NGL pipelines being built to haul ethane out of the northeast. Still, people “in the know” say they have a feeling. Kind of reminds us of the old BJ Thomas song, “Hooked on a Feeling.”