Natural Gas Pipeline Articles & Analysis

Work to lay the first string of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline in the deep water of the Black Sea is now complete, Russian gas giant Gazprom said Monday, as the project designed to eliminate Ukraine as a transit route for Russian gas to Turkey continues on schedule. Landfall sections to complete total first string work Work to complete second line deepwater part due in Q3 TurkStream to ...

By S&P Global Platts

NextEra Energy Partners, LP this week (May 8) is announcing a plan to concentrate solely on growing its high-quality renewable energy portfolio, capitalizing on the low-cost nature of renewables and the significant capital investment needed to decarbonize the U.S. economy. To execute on this vision, NextEra Energy Partners will focus on its core strengths, eliminate a significant amount of ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Second Louisiana Resource LLC (SLR), a subsidiary of Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC (RES) of Baton Rouge, LA, has been selected to supply wetland mitigation credits in the US Army Corps’ of Engineers Vicksburg District along the northern Louisiana segment of the 270-mile Acadian Gas Pipeline System natural gas pipeline. The project is an expansion of the Acadian Gas intrastate ...

By Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC

Southern California Gas Co. has announced the power-to-gas ("P2G") hydrogen pipeline injection program it funds at the University of California Irvine has successfully demonstrated the use of excess renewable electricity that would otherwise go to waste. P2G is a technique for converting surplus clean energy from solar panels or wind farms into hydrogen, which can be blended with natural gas and ...

By Smart Grid Observer

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has updated its Southern California Daily Energy Report to provide additional information on key energy market indicators for the winter season. This dashboard report includes information that EIA regularly compiles about energy operations and the management of natural gas and electricity systems in Southern California in the aftermath of a leak at ...

By U.S. Energy Information Administration

The Environmental Protection Agency's recently proposed regulations for cutting carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's existing power plants could help fast-track construction of new natural gas pipelines, according to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. The sharp increase in domestic natural gas production in recent years is already driving more demand for new pipeline infrastructure. ...

By Bloomberg Industry Group

With clean hydrogen gaining recognition worldwide as the carbon-free fuel capable of making a significant contribution to addressing climate change, Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) this week (Dec 16) announced it will field test a new technology that can simultaneously separate and compress hydrogen from a blend of hydrogen and natural gas. At scale, the technology would allow hydrogen to ...

By Smart Grid Observer

ENSR will complete a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) for NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage Company’s existing natural gas transmission facilities system, stretching 17,000 miles from the Gulf Coast to New England.Working collaboratively with 17 states and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), ENSR and NiSource will develop a comprehensive HCP for Endangered Species Act (ESA) ...

By AECOM

South Carolina Agricultural Waste Digester will produce RNG. GreenGasUSA has selected Guild Associates to provide biogas cleanup equipment for its new project in South Carolina. This project, with a major industrial partner as the RNG consumer, will convert biogas methane from agricultural waste into Renewable Natural Gas that will be injected into the natural gas pipeline. “This ...

By Guild Associates, Inc.

GreenGasUSA and Guild Associates are announcing that the RNG facility currently under construction at the McCall Farms plant in Effingham, SC will be further expanded. GreenGasUSA will be doubling the digester gas production capacity, as two lagoons will soon be operational at the site. Guild Associates will provide a second Molecular Gate™ CO2 removal Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) ...

By Guild Associates, Inc.

MEDIA ADVISORY GREEN ENERGY PROJECT TO BREAK GROUND IN KERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA NEW PROJECT COULD PRODUCE ENOUGH ENERGY TO SATISFY THE NEEDS OF 45,000 HOMES!Friday, January 12th 2007, 12.30 p.m.Veolia ES Greentree Landfill635 Toby Road, Kersey, PennsylvaniaInterview, video and photography opportunities availableWhat: Veolia Environmental Services and Beacon Landfill Gas Holdings LLC are holding a ...

By Veolia North America, Industrial Business

ABLE is pleased to announce the award of the field instrument package for the natural gas pipeline connection linking EDF Energy’s new 1,300MW combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Station at its West Burton site in Nottinghamshire to the National Grid National Transmission System (NTS), some 12 miles away, at Grayingham, Lincolnshire.EDF Energy was granted consent to build the new Power Station by ...

By Able Instruments & Controls Ltd

Plans for several offshore wind projects by Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut could save New Englanders up to $630 million annually in a mid-range gas price scenario, according to a new report by Synapse Energy Economics on behalf of the Sierra Club and released this week.The projected savings generated by 9,000 MW of offshore wind by 2030 could reach $1.7 billion annually in a high ...

By Smart Grid Observer

The cost of a new natural gas pipeline expansion project in New England could be more than double what pipeline sponsors say, according to a new report. The report, prepared by Cambridge-based Synapse Energy Economics, claims that the proposed Access Northeast pipeline project could cost consumers $6.6 billion, more than twice the $3.2 billion figure cited by developers. The report also claims ...

By Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. (EUCI)

Marietta, Georgia – Bekaert Corporation has sold an ultra low emission Clean Enclosed Burner (CEB®) system, model CEB 350, to an oil exploration and production company in Southern California. This unit will be the fourth system Bekaert has sold to the oil exploration and production industry in southern California. Many of the oil exploration and production companies have wells that ...

By Bekaert Group

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W) (NYSE:BW) has acquired Universal Acoustic & Emission Technologies, Inc. (UniversalAET), a Wisconsin-based provider of custom-engineered acoustic, emission and filtration solutions, effective today. UniversalAET is a bolt-on acquisition for B&W MEGTEC and will be included in B&W’s Industrial operating segment. The new ...

By Babcock & Wilcox

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) earlier this week announced that new research on power-to-gas technology shows the technique holds the ability to dramatically increase the use of intermittent renewable energy. The finding came out of ongoing research conducted at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and funded by SoCalGas. Preliminary research findings, announced this week at UCI's ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:ORA) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary has entered into a $22.3 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS). Ormat will install an air-cooled Ormat Energy Converter at the Kern River Gas Transmission Company’s (“Kern River”) Veyo natural gas compressor ...

By Ormat Technologies, Inc.

Russia’s largest private natural gas company, Novatek, secured vital funding for its Arctic LNG 2 plant. The project will be the company’s second liquified natural gas (LNG) production facility in the Arctic following on the heels of the Yamal LNG plant. Construction began earlier this spring on the Gydan Peninsula, just across the Ob delta from the Yamal LNG project on the Yamal ...

By SZ Energy Intelligence Co., LTD | Energy China Forum

Pakistan's plan to import natural gas by pipeline from neighboring Iran would be an economic "death sentence" for the country because the gas price is too high, a Pakistani advocacy group said in a report released Wednesday. Despite U.S. pressure, the Pakistani government struck a deal with Iran to import gas in the hope of relieving the country's energy crisis, especially the shortage of ...

By The Associated Press