After months of being shut down, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has lifted a moratorium on horizontal directional drilling against Energy Transfer Partners LP’s Rover Pipeline.In a letter issued Sept. 18, FERC authorized Rover to resume HDD activities at nine sites where work had been suspended following a roughly 2 million gallon drilling fluids spill in Stark County, Ohio, earlier this year.The moratorium has delayed portions of the 710-miles natural gas pipeline project.FERC also says it’s still investigating the spill over the presence of diesel fuel in the drilling mud. Energy Transfer Partners has hired an independent HDD specialist to
