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Columbia Gulf Files Application to Provide Transportation Service to Cameron LNG Terminal

Columbia Gulf Transmission (Gulf) has filed an application with FERC to construct facilities to enable it to provide 800 million standard cubic feet per day of firm natural gas transportation service to the existing Cameron LNG terminal near Hackberry, La. for liquefaction.  Gulf requests FERC action on its application to permit it to commence service on or before December 2017. ...

B.C. Adopts Regulation Prohibiting Conversion of Pipelines Supplying LNG Terminals to Oil Transportation

The Province of British Columbia (B.C.) has adopted a regulation to ensure pipelines built to support LNG facilities will not be permitted to transport oil or diluted bitumen.  The regulation was adopted to address First Nations’ environmental concerns with the potential for such conversions.  Read more in the Reuters...

Oregon Court of Appeals Sends Oregon LNG Pipeline Permit Case Back to Land Use Board

Yesterday, the Oregon Court of Appeals issued an opinion ruling that the state Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) improperly found that a Clatsop County Commissioner displayed disqualifying bias when he voted in favor of withdrawing the County’s approval of a land use permit for a pipeline to serve the proposed Oregon LNG terminal.  The opinion remands the case back to LUBA to consider...

Transco to Construct Lateral to Serve Sabine Pass LNG Terminal

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., LLC (Transco) filed an application with FERC to construct a seven mile 36-inch pipeline to provide 1,200,000 Dth/day of incremental firm transportation capacity from the Station 65 Zone 3 Pool in St. Helena Parish, La. to the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal in Cameron Parish, La.  Transco has executed a binding precedent agreement with Sabine Pass for 100%...

Kinder Morgan and Cheniere Sign Transportation Agreements for Corpus Christi LNG Export Terminal Gas Supplies

Kinder Morgan, Inc. has announced that Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline, Kinder Morgan Tejas Pipeline and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company have entered into 15-year firm transportation and storage agreements with Cheniere Energy subsidiary Corpus Christi Liquefaction, LLC under which the pipelines will provide 550,000 Dth/day of firm natural gas transportation service and 3 Bcf of natural...

First Nations Sign Pipeline Benefit Agreements with B.C.

The Skin Tyee First Nation (Skin Tyee) and Nee Tahi Buhn Indian Band (Nee Tahi Buhn) in northern British Columbia (B.C.) have signed pipeline benefit agreements with the B.C. government allowing them to benefit from the proposed Coastal GasLink Pipeline project, which will run through the tribes’ lands to provide gas supplies to LNG Canada’s proposed LNG export terminal at Kitimat,...

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