Pipeline
Iran Aims At Unlocking Massive Oil, Gas Reserves In Wake Of Nuclear Deal
The six world powers - China, France, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany - are continuing efforts to persuade a reluctant Iran to scale back its nuclear program with hopes the long-time standoff can be settled.
JV Plans LNG Production Facility To Serve Permian Basin
Stabilis Energy and Flint Hills Resources announced plans for their joint venture to acquire property in Odessa, TX for construction of a second planned LNG facility.
NGL/Rimrock Announce Successful Open Season For Grand Mesa Pipeline
NGL Energy Partners and Rimrock Midstream held a successful open season for the Grand Mesa Pipeline originating in Weld County, CO and terminating at NGL’s Cushing, OK terminal. Based on long-term binding agreements with multiple shippers, GMP has more than the requisite support to construct the pipeline system to accommodate the committed volumes. Pipeline operations are anticipated to start service in 2016.
Reducing Market Barriers Seen As Key To Chinas Gas Pipe Dream
China’s domestic natural gas production is expected to rise from 120 Bcm to 172 Bcm in 2018. In parallel, the nation is pressing ahead with drilling for unconventional gas and expects to reach its target output of 30 Bcm in 2020.
Mexico Meets The New Reality With Energy Reform
The decision of the Mexican government to reform its vaunted energy industry is one of the most important development in the energy sector since the shale revolution, at least for companies in North America. The focal point of Mexico’s energy industry has been Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the state-owned oil company that until just a few years ago ranked as one of the world’s top crude oil producers.
U.S. Oil And Gas Production Continues To Rise
<em>Pipeline & Gas Journal</em>’s 34th Annual 500 Report provides the industry’s most inclusive statistical review of U.S. energy pipeline systems. Once again, the report ranks the nation’s top gas distribution, liquids and gas transmission systems. The gas distribution rankings are based on number of customers, while transmission companies are ranked by mileage. Each liquids pipeline company ranking is based on yearly crude deliveries.
Editor's Notebook: Low Prices, High Spirits
Fact No. 1: China has cornered the market on solar power panels. Fact No. 2: Indonesia has cornered the market on wind turbine parts. Fact No. 3: Natural gas, and to a growing extent crude oil, are American-made products. Fact No. 4: Natural gas and crude oil are fueling an industrial renaissance in the United States. I can keep on going but unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere you know by now that the U.S. is undergoing a major transformation of its industrial and manufacturing base thanks to abundant, cheap and most importantly, reliable supplies of natural gas and crude oil. There remain several important issues still to be resolved such as LNG and crude oil exports, fracking disclosures, emissions controls and improved safety standards for transporters.
Stagnant 2013 Economy Shows Gas Consumption Up In North America And China But Nowhere Else
Natural gas consumption growth was down in 2013 everywhere but in North America, reflecting the major differential between North American natural gas prices and those in the rest of the world. Although the global economy remained lackluster, there was overall growth in energy consumption worldwide, with higher than average consumption growth in OECD countries and lagging averages in the developing world.
UGI Gets Aggressive With Pipeline Replacement Program
In some ways UGI Utilities is fortunate to be so far ahead of the game when it comes to infrastructure replacement. The natural gas distributor, which serves 600,000 customers in 45 eastern and central Pennsylvania counties and one county in Maryland, has about 86% of its 12,000 miles of pipeline already constructed of contemporary materials.
Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline Begins Commercial Service
Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP reports that the Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline, LLC crude oil pipeline project is complete and in commercial service.
Binding Open Season Held For Vector Pipeline Mainline Expansion
Vector Pipeline L.P. and Vector Pipeline Limited Partnership held a binding open season Oct. 6 through Nov. 4 to secure shipper interest in a third expansion of the Vector Pipeline System.
Peak Crude Production Requires New Transport For Capacity, Variety
Booming U.S. crude oil production, especially in areas that were not already big producing locations with good takeaway pipeline capacity, have made it necessary to find new ways of transporting the growing production coming from development of shale reservoirs.
$3 Billion Pipeline Expansion To Address New Englands Natural Gas Needs
Spectra Energy and Northeast Utilities plan a $3 billion expansion project for the Algonquin and Maritimes pipelines to provide an additional 1 Bcf/d of natural gas to New England power plants and meet rising demand from heating customers.
Study Finds Fracking Not At Fault For Water Contamination
A study has pinpointed the likely source of most natural gas contamination in drinking-water wells associated with hydraulic fracturing, and it’s not the source many people may have feared. What’s more, the problem may be fixable: improved construction standards for cement well linings and casings at hydraulic fracturing sites.
Saddle Butte Holds Open Season For Rockies South Pipeline
Saddle Butte Rockies Midstream, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Saddle Butte Pipeline II, LLC, held a biding open season ending on Oct. 29 for the Rockies South Pipeline, a new interstate pipeline designed to transport multiple grades of crude oil and condensate produced in the Denver-Julesburg Basin to points in Cushing, OK.
Extended Open Season For $1 Billion Palmetto Project Draws Strong Support
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. completed an extended binding open season on Oct. 30 for commitments for the proposed Palmetto Project which offers shippers a new refined products service to move gasoline, diesel and ethanol from Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina to South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
INGAA Foundation, ICF Release Data Underpinning Pipeline Study
The INGAA Foundation Inc. and ICF International are making available analytical data supporting the Foundation’s North American Midstream Infrastructure Through 2035: Capitalizing On Our Energy Abundance report, (see <em>P&GJ</em> <a href="http://www.pipelineandgasjournal.com/study-estimates-us-and-canadian-midstream-investments-30-billion-year">May 2014, Pg. 30</a> for an excerpt from the report).
Mother Earth: At The Center Of The Shale Revolution
When global business consulting giant Accenture finished a recent treatise on shale oil and natural gas development, it identified eight key factors needed to make exploitation of shale viable, and the first three are found in abundance in successful U.S. shale plays from North Dakota’s Bakken to Texas’ Eagle Ford. They are geology, land considerations and the existence of an unconventional energy resource service sector.
SNL Energy: Pipelines aim for Chicago as North American market adjusts to Marcellus
Anticipating bidirectional flows on the Rockies Express Pipeline LLC system, natural gas transportation companies have launched new efforts to deliver incremental pipeline capacity to the Chicago market.
European Pipeline Outlook 2020 Seeks Diversification
Seen on a map, Europe’s gas pipeline network appears both complex and comprehensive. It would appear to reflect all conceivable supply needs. Yet, in reality, it is an aggregation of a protracted series of regional networks, devised at different times to serve localised needs.
Pembina Seeks Regulatory Approval For 270-Km Pipeline Project
Pembina Pipeline Corp. has filed the necessary regulatory applications to the Alberta Energy Regulator for its Fox Creek, Alberta to Namao Junction, Alberta segment of its $2 billion Phase III pipeline expansion.
Williams Holds Open Season For Western Marcellus Pipeline Project
Williams held an open season Sept. 3-29 for the Western Marcellus Pipeline Project, an expansion of the Transco interstate pipeline to provide incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast by 2018.
Study Estimates Economic Benefits To State From Texas Oil And Gas Pipeline Industry
The economic benefits of the Texas oil and gas pipeline industry are resulting in substantial highly compensated employment, investment and economic growth for the state of Texas, according to a joint development study conducted by Texas Tech University and commissioned by the Texas Pipeline Association (TPA).
JV To Build Utica Ohio River Project
Regency Energy Partners LP and American Energy – Midstream, LLC have a joint venture agreement for construction and operation of Regency’s Utica Ohio River Project. RGP and American Energy – Utica, LLC will also enter into a gathering agreement for gas produced from the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio by AEU.
Kinder Morgan Holds Open Season For UTOPIA Project
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. launched a binding open season Sept. 5 to solicit commitments for the Utica To Ontario Pipeline Access (UTOPIA) project, which will transport ethane and ethane-propane mixtures from the Utica shale area.
Condensate Pipeline Planned To Service Utica Shale Customers
The EnLink Midstream companies, EnLink Midstream Partners, LP ( (the Partnership) and EnLink Midstream, LLC (the General Partner), plan to construct a 45-mile, 8 inch condensate pipeline and six natural gas compression and condensate stabilization facilities that will service major producer customers in the Utica Shale, including Eclipse Resources.
EIA: World Liquid Fuels Use Projected To Rise 38% by 2040
World petroleum and other liquid fuels consumption will increase 38% by 2040, spurred by increased demand in the developing Asia and Middle East, according to projections in International Energy Outlook 2014 (IEO2014), released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Enterprise Products Plans 1,200-Mile Pipeline
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. held a binding open season that closed Oct. 17 to determine shipper demand for capacity on a proposed pipeline that would originate in the Williston Basin of North Dakota and also serve the Powder River and Denver-Julesburg Basins. The 30-inch pipeline would extend 1,200 miles to the Cushing hub in Oklahoma and is designed to have an initial capacity of 340,000 bpd of crude oil, expandable to over 700,000 bpd.
Tenaska NG Fuels, Waller Marine Announce LA Liquefaction and Fueling Facility
Tenaska NG Fuels, LLC and Waller Marine, Inc. have announced an agreement to develop, construct, own and operate a natural gas liquefaction and fueling facility along the New Orleans-Baton Rouge Mississippi River corridor with access to the Gulf of Mexico.
ABS To Class World's First CNG Ship
ABS has been chosen to class the world’s first compressed natural gas (CNG) carrier ordered by Pelayaran Bahtera Adhiguna, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s state-owned power company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PT PLN).
- Williams' $1 Billion Gas Pipeline Blocked by U.S. Appeals Court, Derailing Five-State Project
- Texas Waha Hub Gas Prices Plunge to Record Lows, Hit Negative Territory
- U.S. Buys Nearly 5 Million Barrels of Oil for Emergency Stockpile
- U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down Controversial Biden Pipeline Safety Rules
- Texas Oil Pipelines Near Max Capacity, Threatening Future Export Limits
- 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
