Pipeline
Buffett Makes Substantial Investment in Kinder Morgan
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a new investment in pipeline operator Kinder Morgan, boosting its bet on the oil industry as crude prices have hovered near 12-year lows. Berkshire owned about 26.53 million Kinder Morgan shares worth $395.9 million at year end, according to the Securiti..
Fluor Donation Kicks Off Industrial Construction Management Partnership with UH
The University of Houston and Fluor are partnering to promote state-of-the-art training for students in the UH Department of Construction Management. The partnership was cemented with a $1 million grant from the Fluor Foundation, Fluor’s philanthropic organization, which UH will use as a research gr..
Future of Constitution Pipeline Hazy, Analysts Say
New York State still has yet to give final approval for the $700 million Constitution Pipeline which Williams and several partners have proposed building from northeastern Pennsylvania through New York’s Southern Tier. On Jan. 29 the operators received authorization from the Federal Energy Regulator..
PA Lawmaker Suggests Routing Pipelines Along Turnpike
Routing gas transmission pipelines along the Pennsylvania Turnpike would help the state’s environment and balance sheet, said GOP Rep. Scott Petri, who has introduced legislation giving the turnpike commission authority to allow use of its right-of-way for commercial transmission pipelines and charg..
PHMSA Cites External Corrosion as Cause of Santa Barbara Spill
External corrosion on a pipeline pumping crude was the root cause of the rupture last May that spilled over 140,000 gallons of oil on the Santa Barbara coast, federal regulators reported. The spill occurred after pumps on the Plains All American Pipeline were shut down and restarted, sending a large..
Binding Open Season Held for Point Comfort Pipeline
Harvest Pipeline Company affiliate, Arrowhead Offshore Pipeline, LLC, launched a binding open season that ended March 31 to solicit commitments for its Point Comfort Pipeline project. Once complete, the project will permit Arrowhead to offer transportation services of crude petroleum from Jackson Co..
Fluor Wins Construction Management Project
Fluor Corp. has won a construction management contract from Sunoco Logistics for the Mariner East 2 project at its Marcus Hook Industrial Complex on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value into backlog in the fourth quarter of 2015. Upon completion, Mariner E..
Open Season for Fourth Major Expansion of Medallion Crude Line
Medallion Pipeline Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Medallion Midstream LLC, held an open season that ran through March 16 to solicit long-term commitments from shippers for firm transportation capacity on the fourth major expansion of Medallion’s existing crude oil pipeline system. The project propose..
Summit Places North Dakota Pipeline in Service, Readies Another
Summit Midstream Partners, LP has begun operations of the Stampede Lateral crude oil transmission pipeline in North Dakota and is in the final stages of completing the nearby Little Muddy crude oil transmission pipeline, which includes an interconnect with Enbridge’s North Dakota Pipeline System. Th..
Pipeline Industry Needs Clarity About Canada’s Regulatory Process
Recent polling suggests Canadians recognize that pipelines are the safest way to transport oil, that the National Energy Board garners a significant amount of public trust and that Quebeckers would rather get their oil from Alberta than Saudi Arabia. And still we find ourselves engaged in a politica..
Q&A: Wearing Many Hats No Problem for Ralph LaRossa
Ralph A. LaRossa is a busy man these days. His company, Public Service Electric & Gas Co. (PSE&G), is embarking on an extensive multi-year upgrading of its North Jersey and environs territory (see related article). His peers at the American Gas Association thought enough of his experience and abilit..
Keystone Outage Affects North American Crude Stock Levels
The recent eight-day outage on TransCanada’s cross-border Keystone pipeline potentially removed 4.6 MMbbls of oil from entering the United States from Canada and was a widespread influence on crude stock levels in both countries, according to Genscape. The 590,000 bpd pipeline resumed flow April 10..
Thieves in Mexico Build Tunnel, Camouflage Trucks to Steal Oil
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities in central Mexico say thieves built a camouflaged truck to transport fuel stolen from government pipelines. Police found a tunnel built by pipeline thieves in the same state of Guanajuato last week. The discoveries show the sophistication of thieves who drill taps int..
Iowa Panel Says Construction Can Begin on Oil Pipeline
DES MOINES (AP) — State utility regulators have deemed that construction can begin on the Bakken oil pipeline in Iowa as soon as federal permits are obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and two other plans are filed. The Iowa Utilities Board voted unanimously this past week to issue the o..
TransCanada Resumes Oil Shipments Through Keystone Pipeline
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — TransCanada Corp. has resumed sending oil through the Keystone Pipeline after a weeklong shutdown prompted by a leak and oil spill in southeastern South Dakota. The pipeline came back online Sunday, but with a reduced pressure. The company says it is continuing cleanup and ..
Alberta's Taxes Precipitate Fall from Grace Within Oil Industry Circles
“Who will stand up for Alberta’s persecuted billionaire community?” the headline of a popular political blog site sarcastically blared after the story broke last month about how wealthy Calgary entrepreneur N. Murray Edwards had apparently relocated his residence to London for tax reasons...
TransCanada Says 6,800 gallons of oil leaked in South Dakota
FREEMAN, S.D. (AP) — TransCanada estimates that about 16,800 gallons of oil leaked into a field in South Dakota as part of a spill that has shut the Keystone pipeline down while officials investigate. The company says it reported the 400-barrel estimate Thursday to the National Response Centre an..
Turkmenistan-South Asia Pipeline Gets $200 Million Investment
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) — An ambitious project to build a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India has received $200 million in new investment. Under an agreement signed Thursday in the Turkmen capital, the investment comes from Turkmenistan’s state gas compan..
Sabal Trail Transmission Project Receives FERC Certificate
Sabal Trail Transmission, a joint venture of Spectra Energy Partners, NextEra Energy, and Duke Energy, received a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to construct and operate the Sabal Trail interstate natural gas pipeline project. ..
Judge Wants Southern California Gas Pipeline Rejected
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge has recommended that state regulators reject a $621-million pipeline to carry natural gas to Southern California. Southern California Gas Co. and San Diego Gas & Electric want to build a 63-mile pipeline and pass on the cost to customers. Karl J. Bemesderfer, an..
AP Source: US Trying to Block Halliburton Purchase of Baker Hughes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is expected to sue this week to stop Halliburton from acquiring Baker Hughes, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the lawsuit had not yet been announced. Halliburton and Baker Hughes hel..
Spectra to Sell Empress NGL to Plains Midstream Canada
Spectra Energy said its indirect subsidiary, Westcoast Energy Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its ownership interests in Spectra Energy’s Canadian NGL business to Plains Midstream Canada ULC, a large-scale, operator, for a cash purchase price of about C$200 million plus customa..
TransCanada Says Spill Shut Down Keystone Pipeline
FREEMAN, S.D. (AP) — TransCanada Corp. says the Keystone pipeline will likely remain shut down for the rest of the week while officials investigate an apparent oil spill in southeastern South Dakota. Oil was discovered on a 300-square-foot area in a ditch near a Freeman-area pump station. About 1..
FERC Approves Transco’s Garden State Expansion
TULSA, OK – Williams Partners announced the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved an application for Transco’s Garden State Expansion Project, a fully contracted expansion to deliver 180,000 dekatherms a day of additional natural gas capacity for local distribution to thousands of cus..
Magellan, TransMontaigne Consider South Texas Refined Products Pipeline
Magellan Midstream Partners and TransMontaigne Partners announced they are assessing the development of a new refined products pipeline in South Texas. In a joint announcement, the two companies said the project would include construction of a 150-mile, 16-inch pipeline capable of transporting 150,..
Nigeria Apologizes for Fuel Supply Woes as Frustration Mounts
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Fuel lines stretched for more than a kilometer (half-mile) on Friday in Nigeria’s capital because of a fuel shortage in sub-Saharan Africa’s top oil-producing country. Drivers in Abuja groaned and shouted in frustration when one station closed because it was apparently out o..
Tallgrass Buys Piece of REX
Tallgrass Development’s wholly owned subsidiary, Rockies Express Holdings, has signed a purchase agreement with a unit of Sempra U.S. Gas and Power to acquire Sempra’s 25% membership interest in Rockies Express Pipeline LLC for $440 million, subject to adjustment under the purchase agreement. “Sinc..
Howard Lateral Crude Pipeline Open Season Ends
Medallion Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of Medallion Midstream, said it successfully closed a binding open season for its proposed crude oil pipeline extension, the Howard Lateral. The open season began Feb. 9. Medallion executed a long-term transportation service agreement that provides a capaci..
New Pipeline Safety Proposal Contains Multiple New Requirements
Pipeline industry executives are pouring over the 500-plus page safety proposal from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), an effort that will take some time before informed comments can be made. The initial comment deadline is at the end of May. “The typical 60 days in..
NACE International Brings the Corrosion Fight to Vancouver, BC
NACE Corrosion 2016, held March 6-10 in Vancouver, B.C., brought together a widely diverse representation of those involved in the coating and anti-corrosion materials fields. In all about 6,500 attendees whose interests ranged from applications for highway and bridge construction to wastewater pro..
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- Texas Startup Endeavors Again to Build First Major U.S. Oil Refinery Since 1977
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