Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) provides a method for installing underground utility pipelines in conditions where open-cut methods are unsuitable.
Historically, new underground utility pipelines have typically been installed by traditional open-cut methods, which sometimes results in environmental impacts or damage to existing infrastructure such as roadways and other surface structures.
He said LIPA would "try to accommodate the communities as best we can," but noted that putting lines underground was "exceptionally expensive" and complicated by easement problems and the difficulty of excavating in areas where other utility pipelines and cables were already buried.
The Railroad Commission of Texas, contrary to its name, regulates the state's oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas industry, and surface coal and uranium mining.
As the name implies, Cohen & Steers Infrastructure invests in securities issued by infrastructure companies such as utilities, pipelines, toll roads, airports, railroads and more.
E1 BUSINESS DAY C1-18 Utility Assails Pipeline Owner Southern California Edison accused El Paso of inflating natural gas prices in California by $3.7 billion in the past year by using its control of a major pipeline to curtail the flow of gas.
The study also concluded that the market for shipborne natural gas is transforming the fuel into a global commodity, suggesting the industry will transform from one modeled as a utility serving pipeline customers to one built around trading.
Richard Dobson, supply manager for Peoples Gas, said the utility's pipeline network in Chicago might not be able to handle the influx of gas from the Leucadia plant safely.
Finally, there's MDU, which consists of about 40% regulated utility and pipeline businesses and 60% construction businesses.
