Pipeline
Florida Southeast Connection Project Gains FERC Approval
Florida Southeast Connection, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc., received a Certificate of Public Need and Necessity from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to construct and operate a proposed pipeline to transport natural gas to South Florida. The approval provide..
Volvo Turning Up the Gas in Europe
Special to Pipeline & Gas Journal Volvo pipelayers were used on both sides of the border to allow gas to flow from France to Belgium for the first time. As well as responding to increasing demand for gas in Belgium’s West Flanders region, the new pipeline will feed gas to northwest Europe. Located..
Monterra Energy Announces Strategic Pipeline Project in Central Mexico
Monterra Energy today announced its plan to build a refined products pipeline to improve efficiency and competition in Central Mexico. Monterra is an independent midstream company that has an equity commitment from KKR, a leading global investment firm, and specializes in the development and acquisi..
TransCanada Buys Columbia Pipeline Group in $13 Billion Deal
Columbia Pipeline Group announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by TransCanada in a deal estimated at $13 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2016. Following completion of the transaction, TransCanada will own the general partner of Columb..
DTE Gas Begins Pipeline Infrastructure in Michigan
DTE Gas will invest $1.4 billion in its Michigan natural gas pipeline infrastructure over the next five years to maintain the safety and reliability of its system. Plans call for DTE to modernize its cast-iron and steel main pipelines with more durable material. New service lines to homes and busine..
Feds Deny Permit for Liquefied Gas Port, Pipeline
COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) – Federal regulators denied permits Friday for a liquefied natural gas terminal in the southern Oregon coastal town of Coos Bay. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued the 25-page ruling, saying the Jordan Cove Energy Project would hurt landowners, The World reported. T..
Inline Services
Inline Services has new tracking equipment that can be used to monitor a pig’s location or movement throughout a pipeline. The pig-tracking equipment consists of receivers, geophones and transmitters. Receivers are used to reveal distinctive pulsing patterns of passing pigs. Geophones detect low sou..
Constitution Pipeline Project Delayed for Lack of NY Permit
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A proposed 124-mile pipeline to deliver low-cost gas from Pennsylvania’s shale gas fields to New York and New England has been delayed for lack of a state water quality permit. Constitution Pipeline Company says Thursday it’s changing its projected start of service from the four..
Williams Partners to Begin Construction on Hillabee Expansion in May 2016
TULSA, Okla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Williams Partners L.P. (NYSE: WPZ) expects to begin construction soon on its Hillabee Expansion Project, which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently approved. The project involves the expansion of Williams Partners’ Transco pipeline system to serve the..
Iowa Regulators Approve Bakken Pipeline Permit
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The last state permit needed for a pipeline that will carry a half-million barrels of crude oil daily from North Dakota to Illinois was approved Thursday by Iowa utilities regulators, who also gave the Texas-based company authority to use eminent domain for land that property..
Court Decision Threatens Midstream Sector
A federal bankruptcy judge ruled that Sabine Oil & Gas could withdraw from its contract obligations with pipeline companies to ship a certain volume of oil and gas through their pipelines. The court decision may seem arcane, but it could have major ramifications for both producers and midstream com..
75-Year-Old Oil Pipeline Shuts Down
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A pipeline buried under three New England states that carried foreign crude oil from the Port of Portland to refineries in Montreal for 75 years has been mothballed. The oil has stopped flowing. The 236-mile-long pipeline was built to provide for the safe transport of crude o..
$6 Billion Pipeline To Provide Natural Gas To This Emerging Market
There has been a major deal announced this week in one of the world’s most critical developing natural gas regions: Eastern Africa. That area has been the site of a number of major natural gas discoveries recently, particularly in the offshore of Mozambique — with spots like Kenya and Tanzania also..
Low-Temperature Tempering on Mechanical Properties of Induction Bends
Special to Pipeline & Gas Journal Operating for nearly 30 years, Triple D Bending is considered Western Canada’s leading bender. With three Induction Benders, state-of-the art technology and a partnership with Prooftest Consulting Inc., research and development projects are a consistent priority fo..
Harvest Pipeline Sets Open Season For Point Comfort Project
Houston-based Harvest Pipeline Company affiliate Arrowhead Offshore Pipeline launched a binding open season for its Point Comfort Pipeline Project. Once complete, the project will permit Arrowhead to offer transportation of crude petroleum from Jackson County, TX to the Port of Calhoun in Calhoun C..
Lawmakers Want Delay on Permit for Piping Oil Beneath River
DETROIT (AP) — Two members of Congress want the Obama administration to put the brakes on a move to allow piping of crude oil beneath the St. Clair River through lines that are nearly a century old. Houston-based Plains LPG is applying to move the oil through two pipelines that run from Marysville,..
Beleaguered Petrobras May Sell Natural Gas Pipeline Unit
Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras, the most indebted oil company in the world, could soon lose its status as the top operator in some of the country’s most prolific offshore oil assets. Petrobras is reeling from a wide-reaching corruption scandal and it is drowning in a mountain of debt t..
Wall Street Won’t Give Up on Its Energy Bets
The oil and gas industry is suffering through its worst cycle in a generation, with most companies losing money at today’s prices. Debt is piling up and the losses are starting to become a concern for lenders. Shareholders are getting burned by plummeting share prices. Yet, major investors are stil..
American Midstream Holding Open Season for Magnolia Interstate Extension
American Midstream began a non-binding open season for a proposed 45-mile extension of the Magnolia Intrastate pipeline to transport up to 500,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas for delivery to a major interstate pipeline beginning in 2019. The open season ends April 11. The proposed Magnolia Ex..
Pipes, Tankers and Barges: Moving Fuels from Gulf to East Coast
In the United States, the East Coast and Gulf Coast are highly dependent on each other to balance supply and consumption of transportation fuels (mainly gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel). East Coast transportation fuels consumption is met through a number of supply sources, but none is more important ..
Heat Exchangers Certified for Pipeline Components Cooling
Owners and operators of fuel and other energy pipelines are well aware of the changed regulatory environment in the wake of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As the public’s fears escalated because of the environmental damage and loss of life that followed the rig blowo..
Sandpiper Startup Delayed Until 2019
Enbridge Energy Partners plans to push back start-up dates for its proposed Sandpiper pipeline and a replacement for its existing Line 3 pipeline until 2019, because of a court-ordered environmental review. The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in August that Sandpiper requires a full environmental ..
PHMSA: Pipe Corrosion Led to Santa Barbara Oil Spill
LOS ANGELES (AP) — External corrosion on an oil pipeline was the root cause of a leak that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast in May, federal regulators reported. The spill occurred after pumps on the Plains All American Pipeline were shut down and restarted, se..
Pipeline Opponents Ask Iowa Board to Consider New US Oil Exports
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Opponents of a proposed pipeline project in Iowa want the state utilities board to take additional evidence that crude oil produced in the United States is now being shipped overseas, which would bolster their argument that North Dakota oil to be shipped through the so-called..
Dominion Outlines New National Forest Route for Pipeline
RICHMOND, VA (AP) — Energy companies behind the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have carved a new proposed route through parts of West Virginia and Virginia in response to federal concerns about the national gas pipeline’s initial path through sensitive national forest areas. The alternate released Frida..
Notebook: Now for the Good News
I’m doing research for presentations I’ve been asked to give before some groups in coming months, including Pipeliners Association of Houston and the Tennessee Gas Association. Obviously everyone knows about the chaos that “The Great Unwinding” is causing as the price of crude continues its historic..
New View on Oil and Gas Facilities
Spatial information – an object’s location, size, shape and relationship to other structures and objects – is an essential component in planning, constructing and operating energy facilities. In order to support efficient production and transport of oil and gas, energy producers must have accurate,..
Williams Partners Expanding Transco System for LNG Markets
Williams Partners has executed long-term contracts with two shippers for Gulf Connector, a 475,000 dekatherm per day expansion of the Transco pipeline system to connect U.S. natural gas supplies with global LNG markets. Gulf Connector will deliver gas for the Cheniere Energy Corpus Christi liquefac..
Mobile Inspection Forms Cut Time, Maximize Accuracy of Audits
Recordkeeping increasingly is the linchpin for the safe, reliable construction and operation of energy pipeline systems. In both the aftermath of natural gas pipeline incidents and in the attempts to develop a more sophisticated safety culture that employs technology advances to expand preventive ma..
Medallion Pipeline Launches Binding Open Season
IRVING, TX – Medallion Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of Medallion Midstream , is soliciting long-term commitments from shippers for firm transportation capacity on the third major expansion of Medallion’s existing 320-mile crude oil pipeline system. The Howard Lateral would provide 45,000 bpd of b..
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- Williams Begins Louisiana Pipeline Construction Despite Ongoing Legal Dispute with Energy Transfer
- U.S. Buys Nearly 5 Million Barrels of Oil for Emergency Stockpile
- U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down Controversial Biden Pipeline Safety Rules
- Report: Houston Region Poised to Become a Global Clean Hydrogen Hub
- Exxon Mobil to Start Gas Reserve Seismic Surveys in Greece
- LaPorte, Texas, Issues Shelter in Place After Altivia Plant Leaks Toxic Gas
- Texas Startup Endeavors Again to Build First Major U.S. Oil Refinery Since 1977
- Mid-Year Global Forecast: Midstream Responding to Demand from LNG Projects
