Rover Gains OK for New Compressor, Loses Rehearing on Blanket Certificate

摘要

Rover Pipeline LLC was not successful in its attempt to gain a blanket certificate to perform routine construction activities, as FERC determined in a November 30 order (CP15-93) that the company cannot be trusted to comply with FERC’s blanket certificate regulations. The order denied the rehearing request of Rover, which is building a $4.2 billion pipeline to transport up to 3.25 Bcf/d of natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica Shale region to markets in Ohio and Michigan, with pipeline connections to reach market hubs in the U.S. and Canada. The project has seen plenty of controversy, including the destruction of a building in 2016, before it received FERC’s order granting a Natural Gas Act (NGA) section 7 certificate.