Pipeline
Greenhouse Gas Intensity Of Average Crude Refined In U.S. Unchanged by Growth Of Oil Sands Imports
The growth in U.S. imports of Canadian oil sands in recent years has not impacted the overall greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of the U.S. supply mix, according to a new study by IHS, a leading global source of critical information and insight. The growth of oil sands imports were offset by substitution for similar sources of supply and by increase in lower-carbon tight oil displacing relatively higher carbon imports from Africa and elsewhere, the study says.
Rangeland Begins Construction Of Integrated Oil System
Rangeland Energy has started construction of the Rangeland Integrated Oil System (RIO System) in the Delaware Basin region of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. The multipart system is designed to transport the basin’s crude oil and condensate production to multiple downstream markets across the U.S. via outbound rail and pipeline. Construction of the rail facility is underway. It will provide services for outbound crude oil and condensate and inbound frac sand.
Report Points To Closing Oil-Gas Price Gap
A new CME Group report suggested that if natural gas only increases its share of energy use for transportation from the current 3% to the 7-10% range over the next five years, the result would translate into a dramatically faster closing of the energy price gap.
Wet Gas Testing Using Custom Liquids, Magnetically Driven Centrifugal Pumps
Wet gas meter calibrations are usually done using natural gas, kerosene and water. Increasingly, gas producers are questioning a meter’s ability to measure wet gas entrained with the unique liquids found on platforms and wellheads (viscous hydrocarbons, paraffin based/high-wax liquids, sea water, brine solutions, MEG and other custom liquids).
Alaska: Gas Project Could Ensure Energy/Economic Future
In Alaska, energy planning has always been as big and bold as the state’s seemingly endless resources and landscape. But the latest blueprint emerging from the ashes of a series of abandoned plans to tap the state’s vast natural gas resources in the north makes anything that came before it miniscule in scope. Whether it is hubris or overreaching, state officials are ready to roll the dice on a gas scenario that will cost in excess of $50 billion and take a decade or more to pull off.
BridgeTex Pipeline Scheduled For Q3 Startup
BridgeTex Pipeline Company, owned by Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. and Occidental Petroleum Corp. plan to begin commissioning and limited commercial operation of the BridgeTex Pipeline. The company has begun to fill storage tankage at the origin of the system in Colorado City, TX and operations to fill the pipeline will begin in the near future.
Flexibility, Ingenuity And Patience Bring Gas To Gotham
Spectra Energy’s 20-mile expansion of the Texas Eastern and Algonquin Gas Transmission pipelines from Linden, NJ to Manhattan cost $60 million per mile, but the money is just the beginning.
Workforce Housing For Pipeliners, Planet And Profit
Well-organized workforce housing can be a valuable partner for companies pursuing their sustainable development goals, as well as a component of long-term profitability.
161-Mile Pipeline To Provide Link In B.C.s LNG Export Market
TransCanada Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary, NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd. (NGTL), has signed agreements with Chevron Canada Limited (CVX) and an Apache Canada Ltd. wholly owned and controlled partnership (APA) for 1.9 Bcf/d of firm natural gas transportation services to underpin the development of a major extension of TransCanada's NGTL System.
Investment Incentives Must Grow With Capacity Demand
Despite vast U.S. shale gas resources and technological advances making recovery economically feasible, an absence of incentives supporting the usual investment model in which a company builds, owns and operates new pipelines – supported by long-term contracts for capacity – is hampering construction.
Tennessee Gas Pipelines Northeast Energy Direct Project
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., proposes the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Energy Direct Project to upgrade its pipeline system in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut. The project is a combination of TGP’s proposed Pennsylvania to Wright, NY and Wright to Dracut, MA projects.
Energy Recovery At Pressure Regulating Stations
Pipeline transmission systems operate at high pressures which must be reduced (regulated) at off-takes and distribution points. Additionally, at compressor stations and power plants, the gas pressure to feed the fuel systems of gas turbines has to be reduced to a level acceptable to the fuel system controls.
Gretchen Gagel At Home With Construction Industry
In case you hadn’t realized it, the construction business is no longer strictly a man’s domain. Thanks to inspired and inspiring executives such as Gretchen Gagel, president of Continuum Advisory Group, that image is undergoing a gradual change and will continue to do so as long as we build houses, factories and yes, pipelines.
Global M&A Markets Appear Poised For Rebound
PLS Inc., a leading Houston-based research, transaction and advisory firm, in conjunction with its international partner Derrick Petroleum Services, reports global upstream oil and gas M&A activity for Q1 2014 of $40.7 billion spread across 192 transactions (including 133 with deal value disclosed).
Underused Strategies To Keep Pipelines Running Strong
Compressor stations are the unsung heroes of the pipeline and gas industry. Given the media hype lately, the public’s focus has been driven primarily to the extraction and refining components of the energy equation with little notice paid to the engines – literally – that transfer products from one end of the country to the other.
MPL Plans Crude Line Upgrade
Minnesota Pipe Line Company, LLC plans a project that will use available capacity on its newest pipeline – Line 4 – to ensure the overall reliability of its pipeline system.
Distributed Condition Monitoring For Pipeline Compressor Stations
The majority of the United States is dependent upon the Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline system for supplies of natural gas. Intelligent distributed condition monitoring solutions are now available for the compressor stations that maintain pressure on the natural gas pipeline network and ensure continuous forward movement of supplies.
MarkWest Energy To Expand Processing Capacity In Marcellus Shale
MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. plans an expansion of its rich-gas processing capacity in the Marcellus Shale.
Breaking Down Quad-O Regulations, Compliance Needs
Just as onshore production methods change and evolve over time, so too do environmental regulations. On Aug. 16, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published final regulatory updates specific to onshore oil and natural gas production that span from well completion to transmission. Deciphering and gaining a better understanding of these regulations will remove costly compliance pitfalls during normal operations.
Economist Schools Public And Industry On Vital Role Of Communication
While the energy industry’s share of the economy is on the upswing, the business is in many ways still a specialty field, with innumerable complex issues at play between companies, regulators and the public when it comes to development, conservation and jobs. Few people understand the interplay well enough to provide context to those not in the midst of it, and those in the middle can lose sight of the big picture. Bernard “Bud” Weinstein, Ph.D., is applying his considerable talents to bridging those gaps.
Piedmont Natural Works To Boost Energy Efficiency At Marine Corps Base
Piedmont Natural is working at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, home to the U.S. Marine Corps' II Marine Expeditionary Force, to expand its natural gas facilities in Jacksonville, NC.
Industry Leaders Predict Robust Pipeline Construction Market In Years Ahead
North America’s energy revolution is alive and well! That was the message at Pipeline & Gas Journal’s 10th annual Pipeline Opportunities Conference March 25 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. Issues covered included quality control for gas pipeline construction, the Pipeline Safety Act, prospects for infrastructure expansions to support new supply sources, the outlook for labor and employment and the benefits of working in an energy state like Texas.
TGP Finalizes 790,000 Dth/d Precedent Agreement With Antero Resources
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. announced that KMP’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP) has awarded Antero Resources 100% of the capacity offered in TGP’s binding open season for its proposed Broad Run Flexibility and Broad Run expansion projects.
Operators See Bumpy Road Ahead, Despite $640 Billion Demand For Midstream Infrastructure
Faced with a study projecting that the pipeline industry will need an average of $30 billion per year worth of new infrastructure to satisfy oil, gas and liquids transportation needs between 2014 and 2035, pipeline operators foresee struggle and risk as well as opportunity.
Energy Transfer To Provide Natural Gas Transportation Service To Mexico
Energy Transfer Partners’ two wholly owned subsidiaries, Houston Pipe Line Company LP and Oasis Pipeline, LP, have entered into 15- year agreements with Comisión Federal De Electricidad (CFE), the Mexican agency handling Mexico’s electric power needs, to provide transportation services for 930,000 MMBtu/d of natural gas.
JV To Build 181-Mile Gas Pipeline In Mexico
Fluor Corp. reports its ICA Fluor joint venture with Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V., signed a contract with TAG Pipelines Sur S. de R.L. de C.V. to build the 1.42 Bcf/d capacity Ramones II Sur gas pipeline through the states of San Luis Potosí, Querétaro and Guanajuato in Mexico.
Regency Energy Plans Processing Plant, NGL Pipeline In North Louisiana
Regency Energy Partners will build a processing plant and NGL pipeline at Regency’s Dubberly facility in north Louisiana.
Summit Build Out Brings Natural Gas To Underserved Maine
In February, when Summit Natural Gas of Maine began providing natural gas to Gardiner businesses and residents who until then had relied on propane or heating oil, it was only part of a much bigger story.
Modern VSD Double-Casings Centrifugal Compressors For Gas Pipelines
Modern centrifugal compressors using double-end, variable-speed electric motors are high performance and reliable options for pipeline compression stations. Such a compressor train is equipped with two compressor casings coupled through two gear units on either side of a double-end variable speed drive (VSD) motor.
Kinder Morgan Set To Expand CO2 Footprint In Southwestern Colorado And New Mexico
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. will invest $671 million to grow its CO-2 infrastructure in southwestern Colorado and New Mexico.
- 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
