The Last Greenfield Pipeline?

摘要

Will the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Appalachia be among the last of the large greenfield projects? Colette Breshears,senior research manager and head of North American infrastructure at Wood Mackenzie,thinks so."Mountain Valley Pipeline is having a very tough time of it,"Breshears said at the recent Midstream PA conference."Tougher than [Energy Transfer LP's] Rover had."Mountain Valley is not alone among projects grappling with myriad obstacles.Still,the struggles facing the natural gas pipeline project read like a list of amendments to Murphy's Law:mounting costs,difficult terrain,landslides,steep hillsides,pathways through population centers,pathways across national landmarks like the Appalachian Trail,steel tariffs and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission(FERC)approvals.