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FERC allows Rover Pipeline to resume construction drilling on $4.2B project

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission allowed Rover Pipeline LLC to restart drilling under the Tuscarawas River in Ohio for its 3.25-Bcf/d natural gas pipeline project, after the commission accepted a revised plan designed to monitor and prevent leaks of drilling fluid.

"We have reviewed and approve Rover's revised plan filed on February 4 and supplemented on February 5, 2018, and authorize Rover to recommence the [horizontal directional drilling] at the Tuscarawas River," FERC Office of Energy Projects Director Terry Turpin wrote in a Feb. 6 delegated order.

FERC suspended drilling Jan. 24 and directed Rover to take steps to monitor drilling and protect the environment around the Mainline B drill site after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency notified FERC that it had found losses of drilling fluid at the site. In Feb. 4 and Feb. 5 letters, the Energy Transfer Partners LP company accepted the requirements and submitted a new plan to FERC in an effort to resume drilling on its $4.2 billion project as soon as possible and stay with the original Mainline B crossing.

Earlier spills of drilling fluid in 2017, including the release of 2 million gallons at a site on the Tuscarawas River, had caused delays in construction as federal and state regulators investigated and temporarily suspended operations. Parts of the project have entered service. Rover has projected that full commercial service of the 511-mile project will begin at the end of the first quarter of 2018. (FERC docket CP15-93)