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Transco Expansion to Serve Sabine Pass LNG Export Terminal

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line (Transco) announced that it has secured Sabine Pass Liquefaction as the anchor shipper for Transco’s Gulf Trace expansion project, a 1.2 million dekatherm/day pipeline expansion which will serve the Sabine Pass LNG terminal in Cameron Parish, La. with gas for liquefaction and export.  The target in-service date for the expansion is early 2017.  Read more...

PHMSA OKs EcoEléctrica’s Design Spill Criteria for LNG Pipeline

The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration has filed a letter with FERC stating that it has no objection to EcoEléctrica’s methodology for determining the single accidental leakage sources used to establish design spill criteria for the siting of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Pipeline Project in compliance with PHMSA’s pipeline safety regulations.  The pipeline project will...

FERC Releases Schedule for Environmental Review of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Supply Pipeline

FERC has released the schedule for environmental review of EcoEléctrica’s LNG Supply Pipeline Project (Project), consisting primarily of a 6-inch pipeline running approximately 3,600 feet from EcoEléctrica’s LNG import terminal in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico to a non-jurisdictional LNG Truck Loading Facility, owned and operated by Gas Natural Puerto Rico, Inc., which would be utilized to...

Application Filed to Deliver Additional Pipeline Volumes to Elba Island LNG Export Terminal

Elba Express filed an application with FERC to construct compression facilities to transport additional pipeline delivery volumes from its interconnections with Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line in Georgia and South Carolina to the proposed Elba Island LNG export terminal near Savannah, Ga.  Elba Express’s application can be found here, and the complete docket for the proposal can be...

Jordan Cove LNG Feeder Pipeline Files Certificate Application

Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, LLC (PCGP) has filed an application with the FERC to construct pipeline facilities to supply natural gas to Jordan Cove Energy Project’s proposed LNG export terminal at Coos Bay, Ore. PCGP proposes to construct pipeline facilities to deliver up to 1,060,000 Dth/day to the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and to markets along the pipeline path from...

FERC Vacates Authority for Freeport-McMoRan Pipeline Connecting Main Pass Energy Hub LNG Port

Today, FERC issued an order vacating authority for Freeport-McMoRan Energy, LLC (Freeport-McMoRan) to construct and operate 5.1 miles of 36-inch-diameter pipeline for the purpose of connecting Freeport-McMoRan’s proposed Main Pass Energy Hub deepwater LNG port facility in the Gulf of Mexico to an existing interstate pipeline hub at Coden, Ala. FERC required the pipeline to be in...

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