Williams recently issued its 2018 and 4Q18 update. High on the list of kudos handed out by CEO Alan Armstrong was the Atlantic Sunrise Project, a $3 billion expansion of the Transco Pipeline in 10 northeastern Pennsylvania counties to carry Marcellus gas south, and Williams’ northeast gathering and processing (G&P) pipeline system.
Read More “Williams Ends 2018 on Atlantic Sunrise High Note”
In January 2017, TransCanada’s Columbia Pipeline subsidiary launched an open season for the Buckeye XPress (BXP) pipeline project (see Columbia Pipeline Launches Open Season for New M-U Project). BXP will expand service along the Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline from Ohio (and PA and WV) to send even more Marcellus/Utica gas to the Gulf via the interconnection at Leach, Kentucky.
Read More “OH/WV Buckeye XPress Pipe Project Moves to Front of FERC Queue”
We spotted an interesting announcement from NGL Energy Partners that the company has just closed on the purchase of seven natural gas liquids terminals in the Eastern United States, purchased from DCP Midstream for an undisclosed amount. What’s interesting is that some of the terminals, most of them located in the Marcellus/Utica region, are capable of exports. NGL Energy says they plan to export butane from one of them. Might that be M-U butane?
Read More “NGL Energy Buys Northeast Propane Terminals from DCP Midstream”
On Friday TransCanada, owner of Columbia Gas Transmission, issued a press release to say the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved the startup of the remainder of the Mountaineer XPress pipeline project. Just last week we told you that FERC had approved more (but not the rest) of the project to go online (see FERC Says More of Mountaineer XPress Pipeline OK to Start Up).
Read More “FERC Says Rest of Mountaineer XPress Pipeline OK to Start Up”
This is super sleazy. You might want to put on a rain slicker to keep the crap from sticking to you as you read it. Last week Chester County, PA commissioners asked to join a lawsuit against Sunoco’s Mariner East pipeline projects. The commissioners also voted to end easements allowing Sunoco access to the pipeline as it runs through county property, access needed so they could do work on it.
Read More “Chester County Commissioner Uses Pipeline Lawsuit as Fundraiser”
Duke Energy has a plan to build a critically-needed natural gas pipeline near Cincinnati, OH to replace an old pipeline built in the 1950s. A group calling themselves NOPE–Neighbors Opposing Pipeline Extension, is trying to defeat the project. We call them DOPEs–Dummies Opposing Pipeline Extension. The DOPErs are back, claiming a brand new pipeline through the area will be less safe and more dangerous than the old, worn-out pipeline.
Read More “Cincinnati DOPEs are Back to Oppose Critical Pipeline Project”
This is wack. Instead of expanding and connecting pipelines to carry Marcellus/Utica natural gas to New England and from there on to the Canadian Maritimes (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island), some M-U gas now heads there after traveling all the way to Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass LNG export facility on the coast of Louisiana.
NOTE: Please see below for a correction to this post.
Read More “Some M-U Molecules Go to Canada East Coast via US Gulf Coast”
USA Today recently published an article picked up from the investor website 24/7 Wall Street that analyzes the average cost per kilowatt hour for electricity state by state–all 50 states. It’s not surprising that Hawaii and Alaska are in the top two highest rates in the nation, separated from the Lower 48.
Read More “NY & New England in Top 10 Highest Electric Rates in U.S.”
A tractor trailer hauling CNG (compressed natural gas) overturned Sunday morning on Interstate 88 near Cobleskill in Schoharie County, closing the Interstate for a few hours. This is one of those “virtual pipelines” we’ve written plenty about (see our stories here).
3/8/19 UPDATE: The driver fell asleep at the wheel causing the crash. See below.
Read More “CNG Trailer Rolls Over in Upstate NY, Closes Interstate”
Yesterday was an eventful day for the former Blue Ridge Mountain Resources (nee Magnum Hunter Resources) and Eclipse Resources. We’ve been telling you since last August that the two companies are merging, with Blue Ridge Mountain essentially buying out Eclipse. The deal is done as of yesterday and there is A LOT of news to share–including a name change for the newly combined entity.
Read More “Blue Ridge Merges with Eclipse, Renamed to Montage Resources”
You can feel the excitement and anticipation building. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved the Constitution Pipeline from northeast Pennsylvania into central New York in 2014, more than four years ago. This year, 2019, may be the year construction finally begins–and the year antis who have fought this pipeline every inch of the way finally LOSE.
Read More “Exciting! DC Circuit Passes Constitution Pipe Case Back to FERC”
We’ve come across information about Kinder Morgan’s Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC (NGPL) that intrigues us and makes us think that Marcellus/Utica gas either already is, or soon will be, traveling along NGPL from the Midwest all the way to the Gulf Coast to feed just about any of the existing or under construction LNG export plants in the region.
Read More “NGPL Pipe Will Flow M-U Gas to Gulf Coast for LNG Export”
There are five major new natural gas pipelines online in the past year, another three partially online, and another 17 under construction or planned, all in the Marcellus/Utica region. Together they represent a staggering $32 billion of investment. Our friends at Energy in Depth recently compiled an awesome list of all these projects, which we share below.
Read More “List of 25 Pipelines Built or Planned in Marcellus/Utica Region”
Yesterday we told you that the West Virginia Surface Owners Rights Organization (SORO) is pushing a couple of bills to address the issue of abandoned and orphan wells (see WV Surface Rights Group Wants State to Enforce Plugging Old Wells). While the bills SORO is promoting have not advanced, several other bills in the WV legislature addressing the same issue have advanced. Rapidly.
Read More “WV Orphan Well Bills Quickly Advance in Legislature”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pulling another boner. Under Cuomo’s direction, the state Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has issued new draft regulations aimed at shutting down most of the state’s “peaker plants”–small electric generating plants that produce electricity for brief periods during high demand. The plants are powered by nasty, filthy fossil fuels and that, according to Lord Cuomo, must end.
Read More “Cuomo Banning 3,500 MW of Electric Generation w/No Replacement”
We had to chuckle when we saw a local television station in Erie, PA describe the start of construction for the tiny (distance-wise and money-wise) RH energytrans Risberg pipeline as a “massive” project.
Read More “Construction Begins on “Massive” PA to OH Risberg Pipeline”