- TransCanada's (NYSE:TRP) Columbia Gas Transmission is approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to place into service 119 miles of the Mountaineer Xpress natural gas pipeline project in West Virginia.
- The signoff appears to allow transmission service on ~700M cf/day of firm capacity to serve anchor shipper Antero Resources (NYSE:AR), S&P Global Platts reports.
- Mountaineer XPress is designed to transport growing production from the Marcellus and Utica shales to downstream markets; it originally was scheduled to begin full flows of 2.7B cf/day in late 2018 but has been pushed back amid regulatory delays.