Gathering
Crestwood Acquiring Midstream Assets In Fayetteville Shale
Crestwood Midstream Partners LP has signed an agreement to acquire midstream assets in the Fayetteville Shale and the Granite Wash plays from Frontier Gas Services, LLC, headquartered in Tulsa, for $338 million, with an additional $15 million to be paid to Frontier if certain operational objectives are met within six months of the closing date.
Greenes Energy Group Expands Into Bakken Region
Greene’s Energy Group has bought the assets of Specialized Oilfield Services, which is based in Minot, ND and services the Bakken region.
Hearing Slated For Bakken Pipeline Project
Canada’s National Energy Board plans to hold a public hearing to consider an application submitted by Enbridge Bakken Pipeline Company Inc. for the proposed Bakken Pipeline Canada Project.
MarkWest To Provide Midstream Services In Marcellus To Statoil
MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources, L.L.C. has signed a long-term agreement with Statoil Natural Gas LLC, an existing producer customer of MarkWest Liberty and a wholly owned subsidiary of Statoil ASA, to provide additional natural gas midstream services for Statoil’s rich-gas Marcellus acreage in northern West Virginia.
IPSCO Adds Pipe Threading Line To Meet Growing Demand
TMK IPSCO's premium pipe threading facility in Brookfield, OH recently began a two-week commissioning phase for its second thread line, which will allow the facility to thread pipes up to 13 5/8-inch diameter, up from the previous size range of 4-7 5/8-inch.
Testing Downstream Of Marcellus Treatment Plants Shows Water Safe
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said results of in-stream water quality monitoring for radioactive material in seven rivers showed levels at or below the normal naturally occurring background levels of radioactivity.
BHP Billiton Buys Chesapeakes Fayetteville Shale Interests
BHP Billiton will acquire all of Chesapeake Energy Corp. interests in the Fayetteville Shale, including the midstream pipeline system, for US$4.75 billion.
Millenium Launches Open Season
Millennium Pipeline announced April 1 a binding open season beginning April 1st and running through April 15th for shippers seeking firm transportation capacity commencing July 1, 2011, to support mainline expansions.
Momentum Announces Appalachia Gathering System In Marcellus Shale
M3 Midstream LLC, known as Momentum, announced March 31 that it has signed long-term gas gathering agreements with Chesapeake Energy Marketing, Inc. and Statoil Natural Gas LLC as anchor customers on its Appalachia Gathering System.
Enterprise to Provide 10-Year Crude Oil Transportation Services For Eagle Ford Producers
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. announced March 22 it has entered into a 10-year agreement with two producers in the Eagle Ford Shale play of South Texas to provide firm crude oil transportation and marketing services.
Project Mariner Expands To Transport Marcellus Ethane to Canadian Markets
MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources, LLC, and Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. announced March 22 the development of Project Mariner West, a pipeline project to deliver Marcellus Shale ethane from MarkWest Liberty’s Houston, Pennsylvania processing and fractionation complex to Sarnia, Ontario, Canada markets.
Gas Production May Reach 80 Bcf/d By 2020
Ziff Energy released a report which provides a production outlook for the major gas supply basins in North America.
Natural Gas Production To Test Limits Of Infrastructure In 2011
U.S. natural gas production growth is expected to cap at 5% as oversupply volumes test the limits of storage and pipeline capacity later this year, according to a new market alert from BENTEK Energy. <em>The Sky Is the Limit? U.S. Shale Gas Soars!™</em> says that until mid-2011, improvements in drilling efficiency, vestiges of $5-6/MMBtu hedging programs, held-by-production (HBP) drilling and the attractive economics of rich (high-Btu) gas, among a host of other factors will drive further production increases.
DCP Midstream Secures Agreements With Shale Producers
DCP Midstream LLC has signed long-term agreements with Pioneer joint venture partners -- Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc., Reliance Eagleford Upstream Holding LP and Newpek LLC.
Capano To Increase NGL Handling Capacity
Copano Energy, L.L.C. has executed agreements increasing the company’s capability to handle natural gas liquids (NGLs) associated with growing natural gas volumes from the Eagle Ford Shale.
Partnership To Provide Midstream Services In West Virginia
MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources has executed a long-term agreement with affiliates of Chesapeake Energy Corporation to provide additional natural gas midstream services for Chesapeake’s substantial Marcellus acreage in northern West Virginia.
Dominion To Build Gas Processing And Fractionation Facility
Dominion has reached an agreement with PPG Industries on an option for Dominion to purchase land at PPG's Natrium, WV site for the construction of a natural gas processing and fractionation facility.
Water Reclamation Services For Marcellus Shale Producers
STW Resources Holding Corp., a water reclamation services company, has signed an agreement with Aquatech International of Canonsburg, PA.
Spectra Energy Holds Open Season For AIM Project
Spectra Energy Corp.'s Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC recently held a non-binding open season for the Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project.
Linde Corporation To Build Marcellus Shale Gathering System
The Linde Corporation is constructing Laser Northeast Gathering Company LLC’s Susquehanna Gathering System in New Milford, PA.
Gas Advocates Step Back, Look Forward
The Gas Technology Institute (GTI) holds an unusual position in the natural gas industry: although it is a nonprofit, its business plan is based around an intense focus on the market. And although it advocates for natural gas, it’s looking for long-term innovation, not short-term politics.
Capital Prompting Investment In New Technology And Talent
According to a study by BDO USA, LLP, an accounting and consulting organization, capital is flowing back into the oil and gas exploration and processing industry – more than half (56%) of CFOs report their ability to access capital and credit is either the same or better than last year.
NGL Transport and Fractionation Services For Eagle Ford Shale
Targa Resources Partners LP has finalized an agreement with TexStar Midstream Services, LP and TEAK Midstream, LLC for development of a new y-grade natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline in the Eagle Ford shale.
Gas Groups Back State-based Registry Of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids
Leaders of the Natural Gas Supply Association and the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America have announced support for a new state-based registry for companies to voluntarily disclose the contents of fluids used during the hydraulic fracturing (“fracing”) process common in the completion of shale gas wells.
Two South Texas Pipelines To Handle Eagle Ford Shale Production
Energy Transfer Partners has entered into multiple long-term agreements with shippers to provide transportation services from the prolific Eagle Ford Shale located in South Texas.
Bakken Area Gas Gathering System Planned
Bear Tracker Energy, LLC has signed an agreement to build, own, operate and expand a natural gas gathering system in the Bakken area of North Dakota.
Additional Gathering And Processing Capacity For Eagle Ford Producers
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LLC and Copano Energy, L.L.C. plan to expand the scope of their Eagle Ford Gathering LLC joint venture.
DCP Midstream Signs Long-Term Gas Supply Agreements to Anchor Major Midstream Expansion in Eagle Ford Shale
DCP Midstream LLC announced Jan. 19 it has signed long-term gas gathering and processing agreements with the Pioneer JV to provide a full scope of midstream energy services in the Eagle Ford shale play.
IMV Projects awarded EPCM contract by AltaGas
IMV Projects, a Wood Group company, has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract by AltaGas to provide full engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services for the C$235MM Gordondale sour gas processing facility and associated gas gathering system.
Harvest to Build New Eagle Ford Crude Oil Pipeline
Harvest Pipeline Company is beginning the next expansion phase of the Arrowhead Pipeline to ship more crude oil from the Eagle Ford area.
- Keystone Oil Pipeline Resumes Operations After Temporary Shutdown
- Freeport LNG Plant Runs Near Zero Consumption for Fifth Day
- Biden Administration Buys Oil for Emergency Reserve Above Target Price
- Mexico Seizes Air Liquide's Hydrogen Plant at Pemex Refinery
- Enbridge to Invest $500 Million in Pipeline Assets, Including Expansion of 850-Mile Gray Oak Pipeline
