Ruby Gas Pipeline
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Ruby Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from Opal Hub, Wyoming, to Malin, Oregon.[1]
Project details
- Operator: Ruby Pipeline LLC
- Owner: Ruby Pipeline LLC[2]
- Parent company: Tallgrass Energy[3]
- Capacity: 1,500 million cubic feet per day[4]
- Length: 683 miles/ 1099 km[5]
- Diameter: 42 inches[4]
- Cost: US$2960 million[4]
- Status: Operating[4]
- Start year: 2011[4]
Background
Ruby Pipeline is a 680-mile, 42-inch diameter pipeline system that extends from Wyoming to Oregon providing natural gas supplies from the major Rocky Mountain basins to consumers in California, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest.[6] The project, which traverses 368 miles of Federally-owned land, was given a signed Record of Decision and Right-of-Way-Grant by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management.[7]
Ruby pipeline project was approved by the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in April 2010. The construction of the pipeline began in July 2010,[8] and was completed by July 28, 2011.[9]
The pipeline's route meant the project would cross sensitive sagebrush plains and approximately 1,000 various types of waterways. The Center for Biological Diversity and the Summit Lake Paiute Tribe attempted to stop the pipeline's construction in the courts due its impact on endangered fish and sacred lands.[10] The 9th Circuit ultimately ruled that the environmental assessment by the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service on the pipeline's effect upon nine listed fish species and five designated critical habitats was improperly conducted. While the court did rule against BLM and the FWS, it said the consequences for Kinder Morgan if the company did not carry out a new conservation plan would fall on FERC and the Bureau of Land Management.[11] Despite the court's ruling, the pipeline continued to run and the Bureau of Land Management ultimately reauthorized the project in 2013. The FWS also conducted a new analysis, which found similar results to its flawed original analysis. Environmentalists were unsatisfied with the Bureau of Land Management's reauthorization and were also critical of Kinder Morgan's lack of mitigation to the environmental damage inflicted on acres of sage grouse habitat along the pipeline route.[12]
El Paso corporation invested in the project and set up Ruby Pipeline LLC to execute it. El Paso partnered with Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), an independent infrastructure fund which GIP about $700m in the project, under the agreement that GIP will increase its stake to 50% in the project upon satisfaction of various closing conditions.[8] In September 2014, Versen Inc. acquired GIP's 50% interest in Ruby Pipeline System for $1.425 billion.[13] On 31 March 2022, Ruby Pipeline LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.[14][15] In November 2022, Pembina Pipeline Corp payed US$102 million to Ruby Pipeline LLC to release itself from any actions arising from the bankruptcy.[16] On 16 December 2022, Tallgrass Energy announced an agreement to buy the Ruby Gas Pipeline, with the transaction of $290 million which was closed in January 2023.[16][17][18][3]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ruby Gas Pipeline, Wikipedia, accessed September 2017
- ↑ "Ruby Pipeline creditors preview bankruptcy dispute over company control". Reuters. 2022-04-04. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Blank Rome Represents Tallgrass MLP Operations, LLC in its Acquisition of Ruby Pipeline, LLC". Blank Rome. 18 January, 2023. Retrieved 29 August, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Natural Gas Data, Pipeline Projects Energy Information Agency, August 29, 2023
- ↑ "Ruby Pipeline: Company Overview". Tallgrass Energy LP. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Ruby Gas Pipeline, Kinder Morgan, accessed January 2018
- ↑ Ruby Pipeline Natural Gas Project, Bureau of Land Management, accessed January, 2018
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Ruby Pipeline Project". Hydrocarbons Technology. Retrieved 29 August, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Ruby Pipeline ramps up rapidly to supply natural gas to Northern California, U.S. Energy Information Administration, September 23, 2011
- ↑ A pipeline built years ago may start to export Rocky Mountain gas to Asia, High Country News, April 14, 2014
- ↑ Annie Youderian, FWS Told to Reconsider Pipeline’s Impact on Fish, Courthouse News, October 22, 2012
- ↑ Scott Streater, BLM reauthorizes completed Wyo.-to-Ore. pipeline without new mitigation, E&E News, November 20, 2013
- ↑ Barbee, Darren (24 September. 2014). "Veresen Acquires 50% Of Northwest Ruby Pipeline For $1.425 Billion". Hart Energy. Retrieved 29 August, 2023.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=and|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Kinder Morgan's Ruby Pipeline files Chapter 11 bankruptcy". Hart Energy. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ L.L.C, Ruby Pipeline. "RUBY PIPELINE FILES TO REORGANIZE UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF THE BANKRUPTCY CODE". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 [naturalgasintel.com/tallgrass-acquires-ruby-pipeline-to-boost-west-coast-natural-gas-delivery/ "naturalgasintel.com/tallgrass-acquires-ruby-pipeline-to-boost-west-coast-natural-gas-delivery/"].
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Tallgrass to Add Ruby Pipeline to Robust Portfolio of Natural Gas Assets". Retrieved 2023-01-09.
- ↑ "Tallgrass Completes Ruby Pipeline Acquisition". Business Wire. 17 January, 2023. Retrieved 29 August, 2023.
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