The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday approved a key natural gas pipeline aiming to boost deliveries into supply-strapped New England. Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market project would expand Algonquin Gas Transmission’s pipeline system from an interconnection at Ramapo, New York, to supply up to 342,000 Dt/d of gas to local utilities in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The project is expected to be in service in November 2016. Proposed last year, the project would include 37.4 miles of gas pipeline and other facilities in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. In addition, Algonquin would modify six compressor stations to add a total of 81,620 horsepower in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the company would abandon four compressor units with a total of 10,800 horsepower at a compressor station in New York. In February, FERC staff issued its final environmental impact statement […]