Happy Tuesday!
Over the past year we have blogged on FERC’s approvals and
their approvals being thrown out by U.S. Courts; please check out our blog for
details. Well, the US. Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is in the news.
Did anyone happen to read the
Oil & Gas Journal’s OGJ Daily Update on July 24, 2025, their article
titled, “FERC to implement new environmental procedures after Supreme Court
ruling”? The article is on how the US
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will be applying its own guidelines
to the National Energy Policy Act (NEPA) after the US Supreme Court’s ruling
which will limit environmental impact assessments/reviews to the individual
project, and they will no longer address upstream and downstream consequences. In recent times, courts have delayed or overturned
FERC certificates on projects due to incomplete environmental assessments and told
the agency to do supplemental environmental reviews this should be a thing of
the past now with these changes.
Hopefully, these changes should help speed up issuing certificates from
FERC.
On another note, the article
speaks on how the agency approved three projects. The first project FERC approved was for
Black Bayou Gas Storage. This project
requested approval to build and manage a salt dome natural gas storage venture in
Louisiana which will have four storage caverns connected by 24-inch OD pipelines
and the ability to hold 34.7 bcf who will then connect to interstate
pipelines. The second project FERC
approved is for El Paso Natural Gas Co. who requested to build and manage the
Haystack Compressor Station. This
project would add another 50,517 dekatherms/day of natural gas to be transported
to Arizona. The last project they
approved is a project for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. This project they wanted to make changes to
their existing mainline and pipeline supply lateral in Louisiana. Three more projects FERC approved to help
American energy!
Well, the changes to FERC guidelines
should help speed the authorization process for projects. The three FERC approvals should help
companies get their product to more customers. If you would like more details from this
article from Oil and Gas Journal, please click the links: FERC
to implement new environmental procedures after Supreme Court ruling | Oil
& Gas Journal.
We would like to bid farewell to FERC
Chairman Mark Christie and thank him for his wisdom and his service. We hope there is a smooth transition to the
incoming Chairman Laura Swett. Good luck
to you both!
Don’t forget to check out our ESC website or contact us via the email in the Blog, if
you have a hydrocarbon liquids project you would like to see get off the ground
or you would like to see what’s under your feet to help with your emissions!
Have a productive week!
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