U.S. liquefied natural gas company Cheniere Energy Inc, the nation’s biggest buyer of gas, on Friday asked U.S. energy regulators for permission to start work on the company’s $1.025 billion Midship natural gas pipeline in Oklahoma. Cheniere asked the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for authorization to start building the proposed 234-mile (377 km) pipeline in three segments. Cheniere said it expects to complete the project in early 2019. In July, at least two U.S. production companies, Gulfport Energy Corp and Marathon Oil Corp, asked FERC to approve Midship because current gas infrastructure cannot accommodate anticipated demand from the South-Central Oklahoma Oil Province (SCOOP) and the Sooner Trend Anadarko Basin Canadian and Kingfisher (STACK) plays in Oklahoma. Midship is designed to deliver 1.44 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of gas from the Anadarko basin to existing pipelines near Bennington, Oklahoma, for transport to Gulf Coast […]