Mountain Valley, a U.S. natural-gas pipeline company, asked federal regulators Monday to allow its Virginia pipeline to be operational by June 11.

In a filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the company stated that the last segments of the project are being purged with natural gas and then packed.

Mountain Valley also added that it had met all the requirements of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Consent Order (CO), issued on Oct. 3, 2023.

Mountain Valley officials were not available to comment immediately.

The company has pushed the date for the pipe's long-delayed installation from West Virginia into Virginia back to early June, from its previous target of "prior" to June 1.

In May, the company announced that it had repaired a

Segment of pipe

That failed an water test.

Mountain Valley, a $7.85 billion project in the Northeast of the United States, is the only major gas pipeline currently under construction. The project has been hampered by numerous legal and regulatory battles, which have caused several delays since construction began in 2018

Mountain Valley, a 303-mile (488 km) project, is owned by Equitrans, NextEra Energy and RGC Resources. Equitrans will be operating the pipeline. (Reporting and editing by Jonathan Oatis, David Gregorio and Anushree mukherjee in Bengaluru)