Daily News Energy Headlines from October 9, 2017

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News highlights gathered by Industrial Info and IIR Energy (Sugar Land, Texas) dealing with the energy markets.

PIPELINES
Williams Places New York Bay Expansion into Service - Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE:WPZ) announced that it has placed into service an expansion of its Transco pipeline system to increase natural gas delivery capacity to New York City by 115,000 dekatherms per day in time for the 2017/2018 heating season. The New York Bay Expansion provides additional firm transportation capacity for much-needed incremental natural gas supplies to National Grid (NYSE:NGG), the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeastern U.S. (Project 300228367) (Business Wire)

LNG
Chevron Begins LNG Production at Wheatstone Project in Australia - Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) announced it has started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at the Wheatstone Project in Western Australia. The first cargo is on track to be shipped in the coming weeks. (Business Wire)

POWER
Vogtle Unit 2 Returns Online After Refueling Outage - Unit 2 of the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Georgia, has safely resumed generating electricity following completion of a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage. (Project 300196316) (PR Newswire)

Trump Administration to Withdraw from Clean Power Plan - The Trump administration will propose the repeal Tuesday of President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which mandated cuts in carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants, said Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. (Bloomberg)

FINANCIAL
Saudi Aramco to Invest in India - Saudi Aramco plans to create a fully integrated business in India and is interested in partnering with Indian companies, including in a planned large refinery project on India's west coast, CEO Amin Nasser said in New Delhi on Monday. (Bloomberg)

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