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• 09/07/2012 -- Dominion places Appalachian, gathering systems into service
  Dominion Transmission placed its 484-MMcfd Appalachian Gateway Project into service, transporting natural gas produced in West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania to storage fields and pipelines in Pennsylvania.
• 09/06/2012 -- TransCanada files new Keystone XL route with Nebraska DEQ
  TransCanada Corp. filed a supplemental environmental report (SER) with Nebraska’s Department of Environmental Quality that contains a preferred alternative route for the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline across the state.
• 09/04/2012 -- New pipeline project to transport Utica shale gas to US Midwest, Ontario
  DTE Energy, Enbridge Inc., and Spectra Energy Corp. signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop the NEXUS Gas Transmission (NGT) system, a project to move Ohio Utica shale gas to markets in the US Midwest and Ontario.
• 09/04/2012 -- ERCB approves Enbridge Alberta diluted bitumen pipeline
  Canada’s Energy Resources Conservation Board approved Enbridge Inc.’s applications to build and operate two pump stations and a pipeline transporting diluted bitumen from the Athabasca oil sands to Sherwood Park, Alta.
• 09/04/2012 -- FERC delays Alaska gas pipeline environmental impact study
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said it will not move forward on its environmental examination of a proposed natural gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope until the project’s sponsors decide whether to build it in Alberta as originally planned or to a liquefaction and export terminal on the state’s southern central coast.
• 08/31/2012 -- EPP launches supplemental open season for ATEX ethane pipeline
  Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP) has started a binding open commitment period to determine additional shipper demand for capacity on its Appalachia-to-Texas (ATEX Express) pipeline.
• 08/31/2012 -- CERI: Oil sands growth would continue without pipelines
  Preventing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would not keep Alberta oil sands activity from growing, the president of the Canadian Energy Research Institute said. “There could be 50,000-200,000 b/d of rail capacity for bitumen if the pipeline isn’t built. That would slow down, but not stop, production,” Peter Howard indicated.
• 08/30/2012 -- Gazprom, Bulgaria reach South Stream pipeline agreement
  OAO Gazprom and Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD signed a protocol defining the South Stream natural gas pipeline’s entry point into the Bulgarian gas transmission system, its parameters, and further development of the project.
• 08/30/2012 -- Chilean LNG terminal to undergo $30 million expansion
  GNL Quientero, operator of the first LNG terminal to serve the Chilean market, will expand its regasification capacity by 50%, adding a third train to reach about 4.43 million tonnes/year (tpy).
• 08/30/2012 -- Nord Stream welds final joint of second string
  Nord Stream AG welded the final joint on the second string of its trans-Baltic natural gas pipeline in Portovaya Bay near Vyborg, Russia, connecting its onshore and offshore sections.