The $3 billion Atlantic Sunrise Project; the $455 million Northern Access project; and the $4.2 billion Rover pipeline will move natural gas from the Marcellus Shale region.
On this roundup, we’ve gathered some news and information about application rejections, building specifications, and also make a visit to a Think Tank.
The Southern Delivery System is an $825-million regional Colorado project that moves Arkansas River water from Pueblo Reservoir to the cities of Colorado Springs and Fountain, the Security Water District and Pueblo West Metropolitan District.
Enbridge Energy Partners LLP has agreed to replace close to 300 miles of one of its pipelines and pay for any remaining cleanup stemming from two oil spills in 2010, including one of the worst inland spills in U.S. history, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials say.
A regulatory regime that facilitates pipeline construction with insufficient assessment of need is driving overbuilding that “puts ratepayers at risk of paying for excess capacity, landowners at risk of sacrificing property to unnecessary projects and investors at risk of loss if shipping contracts are not renewed and pipelines are underused,” according to a report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
With the Senate’s strong approval of a comprehensive energy bill, political observers are waiting for conferees to be named to work out significant differences between the House and Senate measures.
Construction of a new $1.55-billion, 550-kilometer multiproduct fuel pipeline linking landlocked Ethiopia and coastal Djibouti is set to commence next year.
