April 5 (LNGJ) - Enbridge Inc., the Canadian pipelines company, said its Texas Eastern Transmission subsidiary had received approvals from the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to commence service of a natural gas pipeline associated with its Venice extension LNG feed-gas project in Louisiana.
The Venice extension was designed to supply feed gas to Venture Global LNG's Plaquemines export plant currently under construction on the banks of the Mississippi River south of New Orleans. The FERC said it granted Texas Eastern Transmission’s request to commence service on the 3-mile (4.8km), 36-inch Venice extension pipeline with capacity of around 1.3 billion cubic feet per day.
US pipeline company Kinder Morgan has asked regulators for permits to construct a new pipeline section and compression infrastructure for its Tennessee Gas Pipeline to allow feed-gas to flow to the proposed Plaquemines LNG export project in Louisiana.
US natural gas flows out of the Appalachian shale-gas basins into the rest of the country have continued to grow and averaged more than 16 billion cubic feet per day last month and proved useful in filling supply gaps as domestic use and LNG exports increase.
The Plaquemines LNG export plant in Louisiana proposed for river mile-marker 55 on the west side of the Mississippi River, 30 miles south of New Orleans, has been authorized to proceed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The delayed Freeport LNG export project at Quintana Island in Texas is moving forward on its expansion plans by selecting a preferred bidder for the fourth processing Train, even as it has still to complete its first Train and to start the plant.
US regulators have approved the start-up of the Texas Eastern Transmission’s portion of the Stratton Ridge Expansion pipeline project designed to provide feed-gas to the Freeport LNG export plant at Quintana Island in Texas.