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Selection of TransCanada to Build Pipeline to Third LNG Export Terminal Raises Possible Conflict Issues

An article in the Alaska Dispatch discusses Progress Energy’s recent selection of TransCanada to build a pipeline to an LNG export terminal in Prince Rupert Sound, B.C. The article focuses on whether that decision, coupled with TransCanada’s selection to build a pipeline to an LNG export terminal at Kitimat, B.C., presents a conflict of interest with TransCanada’s...

Cameron LNG Terminal Pipeline Files at FERC to Reverse Flow

Cameron Interstate Pipeline, LLC (Cameron Interstate) filed an application at FERC to construct facilities to reverse the flow of gas on its pipeline to transport domestically-produced gas to the Cameron LNG terminal for processing, liquefaction and export. Cameron Interstate states that during a recent open season, it received confidential expressions of interest for 100% of the...

Oregon Court Affirms County’s Authority to Revoke Land Use Permit for Oregon LNG Terminal Feeder Pipeline

Oregon Live reports that the Oregon Court of Appeals issued an opinion affirming a lower court’s ruling that the court had no jurisdiction over the Clatsop County, Ore. Board of Commissioners’ decision to withdraw a land use approval, which permitted a natural gas pipeline to traverse the county to serve a proposed Oregon LNG terminal. In March 2011, the newly elected...

Corpus Christi Liquefaction Bids for 100% of Feeder Pipeline Capacity

In an open season held earlier this month, Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC bid for 100% of the capacity of Corpus Christi Pipeline for a twenty-year term.  The pipeline is proposed to interconnect with Corpus Christi Liquefaction’s LNG terminal. No other bids were received. Corpus Christi Pipeline’s letter notifying FERC of the open season results can be found on eLibrary under...

North Slope Pipeline and LNG Export Terminal Project Could Cost Over $65 Billion

In a letter to Alaska Governor Sean Parnell, ExxonMobil Production Company, ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc., BP Exploration Alaska and TransCanada Corp. projected that it could cost over $65 billion and take ten years to construct a pipeline and LNG terminal facilities to carry natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to a proposed LNG export terminal on Alaska’s southcentral...

Spectra and BG Group to Develop BC Pipeline

Spectra Energy Corporation announced today that is has signed a Project Development Agreement with BG Group plc to jointly develop plans for a new 850-kilometre (525 mile) gas pipeline capable of transporting up to 4.2 Bcf/day that will run from northeast British Columbia (B.C.) to BG Group’s potential LNG export terminal facility in Prince Rupert, on the B.C. northwest coast....

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