Pipeline
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..
Williams, Williams Partners Complete Sale of Canadian Assets
Williams and Williams Partners have completed the sale of their Canadian businesses to Inter Pipeline Ltd. The combined cash proceeds amounted to $1.38 billion CAD between the partnership and company. In connection with the sale, Williams agreed to waive $150 million USD of incentive distribution r..
PennEast Files with FERC for 26 Route Modifications in Pennsylvania
PennEast Pipeline Company has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 26 route deviations in Pennsylvania. Examples include: • In Luzerne County, PennEast, in conjunction with landowner consultation, is altering the Pipeline’s current route and relocating the proposed Auburn/Lei..
First Nations and Tribes Sign New Treaty Joining Forces To Stop All Tar Sands Pipelines
First Nation and Tribal Chiefs have signed a new continent-wide Indigenous Treaty — the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion — that commits already some 50 First Nations and Tribes from all over Canada and the Northern US to working together to stop all proposed tar sands pipeline, tanker and..
PennEast Pipeline Submits Seven Route Deviations in New Jersey to FERC
PennEast Pipeline Company LLC has filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) seven route deviations in New Jersey in PennEast’s continued effort to reduce impacts on endangered species and wetlands, maintain co-location with existing rights of way and address concerns expressed by la..
Petrobras Sells 90% of Gas Pipeline Unit
Petrobras’ Board of Directors has approved the sale of 90% of the shares of Nova Transportadora do Sudeste (NTS) to Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and its affiliates, through a Private Equity Investment Fund that includes British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, CIC Capital Corporatio..
Allianz-Snam Consortium Awarded 49 Percent of Gas Connect Austria
OMV, the international integrated oil and gas company based in Vienna, OMV Gas & Power GmbH (OGP) and the Consortium composed of Allianz, Europe´s largest insurer, and Snam S.p.A., Italy’s gas infrastructure operator, have signed an agreement for the sale and purchase of a 49% minority stake in Gas ..
BP’s Azerbaijan Gas Project Will Cost $18 Billion
BP has revealed the cost of its contracts in the second phase of its development of the offshore Shah Deniz gas and condensate field in Azerbaijan, and the expansion of the South Caucasus pipeline. A message from the company stated that the contracts are worth approximately $18 billion. The project ..
North Dakota Tribes Seek Review of Sacagawea Pipeline
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s oil-rich Three Affiliated Tribes wants a federal appeals court to quickly decide whether a Texas company needed tribal permission to put an oil pipeline and a natural gas pipeline beneath a Missouri River reservoir. The tribes requested that the Sacagawea pipeli..
Task Force Looking into Security, Pipeline Protesters' Clash
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A joint task force of North Dakota and federal officials is investigating a clash between Dakota Access pipeline protesters and private security guards earlier this month, a county sheriff announced Tuesday. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department is heading up the probe of the Se..
Company Restarts Gasoline Pipeline after Leak in Alabama
ATLANTA, GA (AP) —Colonial Pipeline has restarted the gasoline pipeline in Alabama that was shut down after a major leak, which caused shortages and surging fuel prices across the South. Company officials say in a statement that the pipeline reopened Wednesday evening. The pipeline leak was discove..
North Dakota Borrowing $6M for Pipeline Protest Costs
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota legislative committee has approved an emergency request to borrow $6 million to cover the cost of law enforcement related to the ongoing protest of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The state’s Emergency Commission, headed by Gov. Jack Dalrymple, voted ..
New York Crude Oil Hub Subject to New Environmental Review
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York regulators will require an extensive new environmental review of permits originally issued in 2012 that allowed fuel transporters to turn Albany into a major hub for crude oil rail shipments from North Dakota to East Coast refineries. Department of Environmental Conserv..
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Awards Construction Contract to Spring Ridge Constructors
Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, which has proposed a 600-mile natural gas transmission pipeline to bring much-needed energy to Virginia and North Carolina, has signed a construction contract with Spring Ridge Constructors, LLC (SRC), a joint venture of leading natural gas pipeline construction compani..
Ukraine Abandons Plan To Attach National Pipeline Company To Energy Ministry
The Ukrainian government reversed a previous decision to bring the nation’s natural gas transport company under the direct control of the Energy Ministry. Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Stepan Kubiv said he will not carry out plans to detach Ukrtransgaz from the government-run gas compa..
Washington Regulators Release Report into March Gas Explosion in Seattle
Washington pipeline safety regulators today released their investigation report into the March 9 natural gas explosion in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle. Utilities and Transportation Commission’s Pipeline Safety staff led the investigation into the cause of the explosion that injured nine fi..
Northern Gateway to Not Appeal Federal Court of Appeal Decision Reversing Project Approval
Northern Gateway will not appeal a recent Federal Court of Appeal decision that reversed the project’s federal approval certificate. The Federal Court of Appeal found that the National Energy Board’s Joint Review Panel recommendation was acceptable and defensible on the facts and the law. The Court,..
- Phillips 66 to Shut LA Oil Refinery, Ending Major Gasoline Output Amid Supply Concerns
- FERC Sides with Williams in Texas-Louisiana Pipeline Dispute with Energy Transfer
- U.S. Appeals Court Blocks Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Pipeline Permits
- ConocoPhillips Eyes Sale of $1 Billion Permian Assets Amid Marathon Acquisition
- Valero Considers All Options, Including Sale, for California Refineries Amid Regulatory Pressure
- U.S. LNG Export Growth Faces Uncertainty as Trump’s Tariff Proposal Looms, Analysts Say
- Marathon Oil to Lay Off Over 500 Texas Workers Ahead of ConocoPhillips Merger
- Valero Considers All Options, Including Sale, for California Refineries Amid Regulatory Pressure
- Another Major U.S. Oil Refinery Shutting Down as Lyondell Confirms Houston Closure
- Chevron CEO Wirth Under Fire as Hess Deal Delay Drags Down Stock Performance
