Pipeline Would Help Transport PA Gas To Europe

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

September 26, 2012 | 11:24 AM

A new infrastructure project means more Pennsylvania natural gas will be shipped overseas. The Tribune-Review reports:

More natural gas from Western Pennsylvania will flow to Europe as part of a Philadelphia company’s new export pipeline project, a company official said on Tuesday.
Sunoco Logistics Partners LP will pipe ethane and propane from the MarkWest Energy Partners LP plant in Washington County for export from the Philadelphia area. The company is courting contracts to fill a daily eastbound capacity of 65,000 barrels, most destined for Europe, said Rich Billman, a business development official at the company who spoke on a panel at the Pittsburgh Chemical Day conference.
MarkWest will build a plant in Philadelphia to separate the ethane from the propane, said Jim Crews, Charleston-based vice president of the company’s Northeast business development. Drillers in the region will get a premium on liquid gases coming from shale fields such as the Marcellus if they sell them out of a nearby port to premium European markets, he said.