- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission told Energy Transfer Partners (ETP +0.5%) late Friday that the company must file information about possible alternatives for a second pipe it wants to drill under the Tuscarawas River in Ohio as part of its Rover natural gas pipeline project.
- The alternatives must include completing the current drilling, finding another location to cross under the river or go with just one pipe across the river, according to the order, which also said the Rover unit must file some analysis on residential water wells in the vicinity of the Tuscarawas drilling.
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Two weeks ago, FERC ordered Rover to halt drilling of a second pipe under the river after the company lost some drilling fluid in the hole under the river; ETP said in a letter to FERC last week that it was not unusual for some fluid to be lost and that none has returned to the surface.