Pipeline
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..
Iowa Regulators Reject Request to Fast Track Oil Pipeline
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — State regulators have rejected a Texas-based company’s request to expedite a permit to build the so-called Bakken oil pipeline through 18 counties in Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports that the Iowa Utilities Board issued an order Friday refusing to grant the motion..
CO2 Corrosion Prediction: Consider the Need for Validation
Carbon dioxide (CO2) corrosion modeling software is used by asset owners, contractors and consultants in the oil and gas industry to predict the CO2 corrosion rate at both the design and operation phases of pipelines and well tubing. Prediction results from a dozen CO2 corrosion models are known to ..
NACE International’s IMPACT Breaks New Ground in the Study of Corrosion Management
Over past decades there have been significant studies in various parts of the world on the cost of corrosion and how it affects a country’s economy. The often-cited 2002 study, “Corrosion Costs and Preventive Strategies in the United States,”1 revealed that the total annual estimated direct cost of ..
Pipeline Pigs – You Have Got to be Kidding!
Even today, a lot of people laugh when you talk about putting a pig in a pipeline. And it takes a good 15 minutes to explain what they do and what they look like! There are an estimated 18-20 manufactures of pipeline pigs, most residing in the United States, with an estimated annual global market s..
Pipeline Industry Leaders to Produce Safety Leadership Training Program
Caterpillar, in collaboration with PipeLine Machinery International, Inc. (PLM) and a group of industry leading companies, is now offering the Pipeline Safety Leadership Program, a first-of-its-kind training course produced specifically for pipeliners. With a focus on personal accountability for saf..
SwRI-Designed Computer Model Predicts Corrosion Risks
Oil and gas pipelines crisscross the nation beneath critical infrastructure, such as highways, railroads and waterways, as well as passing through population centers. Because over half of U.S. pipelines date to the 1950s and 1960s, corrosion prevention and related repairs are increasingly important ..
Creating an Environmentally Friendly Pipeline
With the advent of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and Clean Water Act of 1972, environmental quality, protection and enhancement have been at the forefront of proposed pipeline activities for nearly a half century. Considerable effort and coordination goes into planning pipeline proj..
Improving Pipeline Corrosion Protection Systems with Computer Simulation
Computer-modeling technology has developed over a number of years and is now widely used to verify the performance of cathodic protection (CP) systems used in combination with coatings to manage the corrosion risk to underground assets. Modeling can be used to verify the protection provided by the ..
AOPL-API Report Finds Pipeline System Growing
During the past five years U.S. crude oil pipeline mileage has grown by 22% for an increase of 12,000 miles – or to think of it another way, about the distance covered in two round-trips between Seattle, WA and Tampa, FL. “In the time the Keystone XL pipeline was under review, we built the equivale..
Considering Corrosion Allowances for High-Strength Steels
Due to great chemistry and metallurgical innovations of the steel industry, higher strength steels have made significant strides, in specified minimum yield strength (SMYS), wall thickness control, toughness and weight per foot. However, one significant factor in these great improvements was no con..
Apache Faces More Charges in Canada over Safety
The Alberta Energy Regulator said Apache could be slapped with a penalty of up to $2.5 million for a spill in northwestern Alberta two years ago. In that incident, contaminated water spilled about 40 km from Whitecourt, affecting a nearby creek. Apache has been charged on five counts under the Pipel..
New Pipeline Company Targets Increased Use of Natural Gas
Warren Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm, is partnering with Multifuels, L.P. to build a midstream pipeline platform based in Houston. As part of the transaction, Multifuels, L.P. is contributing an existing natural gas pipeline that supplies a utility service area in Texas, and W..
Rubio Speaks Welders’ Language in NH Campaign Stop
When Sen. Marco Rubio, in a recent Republican presidential debate, argued that American colleges weren’t equipping their students for the job market, he said, “The world needs less philosophers and more welders.” That remark, picked up by the Wall Street Journal, was music to the ears of Kyle Reaga..
Q & A: We Can Win This, John Davies Tells Oil & Gas
John Davies, CEO and chairman of California-based Davies Public Affairs, warms to challenges, and that’s good news for the beleaguered energy industry which needs an eloquent and forceful advocate who can speak to the public. Davies has been active throughout the U.S. as a speaker at numerous confer..
Direct Pipe Installation Solves Canal Crossing Challenges
Experience and expertise are important on all construction projects, especially when safely and successfully pushing the limits of an emerging technology. Michels Corporation combined the two by using the Direct Pipe methodology to complete a 4,038-foot installation of a 48-inch natural gas pipe in ..
Ins and Outs of Pipeline Coating
The global pipeline coatings and application services market is worth about $5.5 billion a year, according to Noru Tsali at Ami Consulting. Current market conditions are stormy, owing to low oil prices that depress demand for new pipelines, terrorist activities in Libya, Nigeria and Iraq, financial ..
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- 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
