Pipeline
Dakota Access Pipeline Case set for DC Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — A three-judge federal appeals court panel is set to hear a dispute over the $3.8 billion four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is being asked to keep a temporary stop of construction in place while the Standing Rock S..
Line Fill for Grand Mesa Pipeline Begins; Commercial Operations Set for Nov. 1
NGL Energy Partners’ Grand Mesa pipeline began line fill for its newly constructed crude oil pipeline system from Weld County, CO to Cushing, OK, with commercial service expected to start on schedule Nov. 1. Construction of the $18 million Lucerne and Riverside origin stations in Colorado and the co..
Ohio Valley Connector Initiates Transportation Service from West Virginia
EQT Midstream Partners began service Oct. 1 on the Ohio Valley Connector, which provides natural gas transportation service from northern West Virginia to Clarington, OH. The 37-mile pipeline, an extension of the existing Equitrans system, was certificated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission..
Petroperu To Restart Disaster Oil Pipeline In 2017
Petroperu will restart early next year the operation of its four-decades-old crude oil pipeline, which has caused several major leaks in the Amazon, after completing extensive repairs. The company also said it will seek support from Amazonian communities to help protect the pipeline from further van..
Michigan Approves Plans for Some Mackinac Pipeline Supports
ST. IGNACE, Mich. (AP) — Michigan officials have approved plans by pipeline company Enbridge to install additional supports for its twin oil pipelines in the waterway where Lakes Michigan and Huron meet. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality says it issued a permit Monday for Enbridge to..
Gazprom Receives Survey Permit for Two Strings of TurkStream Pipeline
Gazprom has received a survey permit for two strings of the TurkStream gas pipeline’s offshore section in Turkey’s territorial waters. “I would like to highlight the constructiveness and promptness on the part of our Turkish partners,” said Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committe..
Trans Adriatic Pipeline Installs First Pipes in Albania
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The Trans Adriatic Pipeline has started building its gas pipeline in Albania. The TAP on Friday started putting the first of its 13,000 pipes along 215 kilometers (133 miles) in Albania. The pipeline runs 878 kilometers (545 miles) long from the Shah Deniz field in Azerbaija..
Go or No-Go Expected For Enbridge Pipeline By November
The Canadian government announced on Thursday that it will hold itself to a two-month deadline for a yay or nay on the controversial Northern Gateway and Line 3 oil pipelines—two projects that would alleviate pipeline capacity issues currently choking Canadian oil companies. Another pipeline projec..
Enbridge Sells Key Pipeline for $1 Billion
Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge has agreed to offload one of its key networks, in Saskatchewan, for US$1.08 billion. The buyer is Tundra Energy, a private energy infrastructure company. The proceeds of the deal will go towards funding Enbridge’s takeover of U.S. Spectra Energy, worth US$28 billion...
NC Regulator OKs Duke Energy-Piedmont Natural Gas Merger
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina regulators are allowing Duke Energy to expand from being the country’s largest electricity company to selling natural gas. Duke Energy Corp. said in a statement Thursday that the North Carolina Utilities Commission has allowed its acquisition of Piedmont Natura..
Pipeline Disruption Leads to Record Gasoline Stock Changes in Southeast, Gulf Coast
The outage of Colonial Pipeline Line 1 between September 9 and September 21 resulted in record changes in motor gasoline stocks in both the Lower Atlantic and Gulf Coast states during the week ending September 16. Colonial’s Line 1 is the largest gasoline supply pipeline linking the Gulf Coast—home ..
Haydale Graphene Industries Awarded Contract Extension By National Grid
Haydale Composite Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Haydale Graphene Industries plc, has been awarded a £310,000 contract extension by National Grid to design and develop 14 different Gas Transition Piece (GTP) solutions for seven different pipeline diameters from 300-1050mm and for two ..
Crestwood and SWEPI Enter into Long-Term Gas Gathering Agreement in the Delaware Basin
Crestwood Equity Partners LP has entered into a long-term agreement with SWEPI LP, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc, to construct, own and operate a natural gas gathering system in Shell’s operated position in the Permian – Delaware Basin. The system will be owned through Crestwood’s previously..
Trudeau Pushes Through LNG Megaproject Despite Environmental Concerns
The Canadian federal government has given the green light to the $8-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project, proposed by Malaysia’s Petronas three years ago. The decision is highly controversial because it follows an assessment that found the project will produce significant amounts of CO2, which woul..
Colorado Officials to Visit Oregon about Proposed Pipeline
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — Western Colorado officials will travel to Oregon next week to advocate for a project that would carry natural gas from Colorado to the Pacific Rim. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2dgZUkD ) that then $5.3 billion project includes a pipeline from..
North Dakota Asks Pipeline Company to Explain Ranch Purchase
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem is asking the developer of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline to explain its purchase of a ranch where a protest turned violent earlier this month. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners recently purchased the 7,000-acre ranch..
Rice Energy Acquires Vantage Energy Midstream Assets in Marcellus
Rice Energy entered into a purchase and sale agreement for Vantage Energy, acquiring midstream assets for in a $2.7 billion deal that included acreage in the Marcellus, Utica and Barnett shales, along with debt assumption. In connection with the acquisition, Rice Midstream Partners (RMP) will purcha..
First Nations LNG Alliance Supports Federal Government Approval of Pacific NorthWest LNG
The First Nations LNG Alliance offered its support for Canada’s approval of the Pacific NorthWest LNG project in Prince Rupert, B.C., based on the proponent meeting 190 stringent conditions to mitigate environmental impacts. The prominence placed on meaningful First Nations consultation and engageme..
Pipeline Battle Set To Harm U.S. Energy Independence
Protests against new oil and gas pipeline construction are becoming more or less part of everyday life in the U.S. and Canada. Keystone XL, Dakota Access, Enbridge’s Line 5, Energy East, you name it. There seem to be dozens of new pipelines in the works, and almost all are the target of protests by ..
Lack Of Pipeline Capacity Could Force Down Canadian Crude Prices
The pipelines carrying Canadian heavy crude to the U.S. are running at capacity and soon, more oil will have to start being transported by railway as oil sands operators ramp up production. The bad news for these producers is that railway transportation of crude is costlier than pipelines, and they ..
Minnesota Groups Question Proposed Oil Pipeline Plans
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Two environmental groups are asking Minnesota regulators to take another look at a proposed oil pipeline in the northern part of the state. MPR News (http://bit.ly/2d6M6ZG ) reported that the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Friends of the Headwaters filed a moti..
DTE Energy Spending $1.3 Billion for Natural Gas Assets in 2 States
DETROIT (AP) — DTE Energy Co. plans to spend $1.3 billion for natural gas assets in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Detroit-based company announced Monday that an agreement calls for DTE to purchase all of Appalachia Gathering System in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and 40 percent of Stonewall..
Dakota Access Owners Evade Federal Regulators, Buy Land Surrounding Pipeline
Energy Transfer Partners—one of the major stakeholders in the controversial Dakota Access pipeline—bought over 6,000 acres of land surrounding the line’s route in North Dakota, according to several media reports over the weekend. The deal includes lands that the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says conta..
Sunoco Logistics Acquires Vitol’s Crude Platform in the Permian Basin
Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. has acquired the Vitol Group’s Permian Basin crude oil system for approximately $760 million plus working capital. Included in the acquisition are an approximately two million barrel crude oil terminal in Midland, Texas, a crude oil gathering and mainline pipelin..
North Dakota Says No Indian Artifacts Found at Pipeline Site
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota state inspection of an oil pipeline site has found no sign of the Native American artifacts or human remains that an American Indian Tribe says are present, the state’s chief archaeologist said in a draft memo. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe had cited the potenti..
Shell: Fire Forces Closure of Key Oil Pipeline in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Shell says a fire has forced it to close a key oil pipeline feeding Nigeria’s strategic Bonny Export Terminal, which militants attacked last week. The ongoing challenges are losing oil multinationals billions of dollars in what used to be Africa’s biggest petroleum producer. ..
Global Crude Oil Pipelines Market to Witness Growth Through 2020
The global crude oil pipelines market is projected to experience a significantly tepid growth rate throughout the forecast period, registering a CAGR of only 0.3%, according to Technavio’s latest report. In this report, Technavio covers the market outlook and growth prospects of the global crude oi..
Jereh Group Wins Natural Gas EPC Project for China-Myanmar Gas Pipelines
Jereh Group has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the natural gas peak-shaving and emergency supply project in Guizhou Province, China. The scope includes a natural gas liquefaction plant with the production capacity of 10.59 MMSCFD and a supporting storage tank ..
TransCanada Offers to Purchase All Common Units of Columbia Pipeline Partners
TransCanada Corporation’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc. has offered to acquire, for cash, all of the 53,843,466 outstanding common units of the master limited partnership, Columbia Pipeline Partners, LP at a price of US$15.75 per common unit. The offer price represents an 11..
Shell Nigeria Refuses to Confirm Oil Militants' Attack
WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — Shell Nigeria is refusing to confirm a report by Niger Delta militants that they have bombed its Bonny oil pipeline in the south, crippling its exports. Friday night’s bombing breaks a month-long ceasefire between militant groups and the government and comes days after repairs..
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