Transco submits expansion of Pa. gas pipeline facilities to early review at FERC
Williams Cos. Inc. followed through on promises to expand the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC system, giving staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a first look at a proposal that would build on a recent expansion and allow the pipeline to provide more than 582 MMcf/d of extra firm natural gas transportation on two project paths from the Marcellus and Utica shales to markets in the U.S. Northeast and mid-Atlantic. Transco said it plans to give FERC a formal application for a Natural Gas Act certificate in June 2019 and put the Leidy South project into service by Dec. 1, 2021.
Florida Gas Transmission project would bump up service to Entergy Louisiana
Florida Gas Transmission Co. LLC asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to give it authorization to upgrade a compressor station and install other natural gas mainline facilities that would allow it to provide more firm transportation service to Entergy Louisiana LLC in Washington Parish, La. The company submitted a notice of request for the authorization under its blanket Natural Gas Act certificate Nov. 1, supplemented Nov. 6.
St. Louis-area Spire STL gas pipeline can move to construction phase
A Spire Inc. subsidiary was approved to begin work on the 400,000-Dth/d Spire STL natural gas pipeline project between the Rockies Express Pipeline LLC system and the St. Louis metropolitan area. A split FERC approved the approximately $220 million pipeline project in an Aug. 3 certificate order.
Despite Democratic win, US House to have limited effect on gas pipeline projects
While a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives will target the White House's energy deregulation policy agenda, its ability to institute more federal oversight of interstate pipeline building is limited, several industry experts said. "Democrat oversight via House committees can complicate timelines through oversight hearings and potentially materialize in pressure on agencies such as FERC with threats of budget riders to constrain policy, but control of one house [of Congress] may not necessarily halt agendas altogether," Christi Tezak, managing director at the research firm ClearView Energy Partners, said in an email.
