National Fuel Gas Company provided a schedule update on the Northern Access 2016 pipeline expansion project. Northern Access Project Update: The company and its wholly owned pipeline and storage subsidiaries National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation and Empire Pipeline Inc. are revising the anticipated in-service date of the Northern Access pipeline expansion project from November 2017 to the second quarter of the Company’s 2018 fiscal year. Ongoing delays in the regulatory approval process, including the issuance of the project’s Certificate by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, have limited the ability of Supply and Empire to commence certain development activities along portions of the 99 mile pipeline route in advance of designated environmental protection periods that begin on April 1, 2017 and extend through the end of July 2017.