Pipeline
Enterprise To Expand LPG Terminal
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. announced an additional expansion of its LPG export terminal located on the Houston Ship Channel that will increase its capability to load fully refrigerated, low-ethane propane.
Kinder Morgan Executive Discusses Challenging Aspects Of Double Eagle Pipeline Project
Kinder Morgan is the largest midstream and the third-largest energy company (based on combined enterprise value) in North America. Kinder Morgan owns an interest in or operates approximately 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. The company’s pipelines transport primarily natural gas, refined petroleum products, CO-2 and crude oil and its terminals store, transfer and handle such products as gasoline, ethanol, coal, petroleum coke and steel. Combined, Kinder Morgan has an enterprise value of approximately $110 billion.
Report Offers A Timely Perspective On Natural Gas
Recently the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (“C2ES”) released a comprehensive report entitled “Leveraging Natural Gas To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions” that lays out in a thoughtful manner the promising future of natural gas. Its timeliness, coming as the shale revolution continues to build in the United States and which President Obama made a centerpiece of his Climate Action Plan (CAP), make this document essential reading.
Williams/Boardwalk JV To Develop LPG Export Facility Terminal
Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP have executed joint venture agreements to continue developing an LPG export facility in the Lake Charles, LA area.
Magellan Midstream To Add New Origin Point, Expand Longhorn Capacity
Magellan Midstream Partners plans to construct a new origin at Barnhart, TX to accept crude oil shipments on the Longhorn pipeline.
Navigator Energy Holds Open Season For Crude Line
Navigator Energy Services, LLC recently held a binding open season for long-term shipper volume commitments of crude oil from non-affiliated shippers for capacity on a new crude oil pipeline system -- Big Spring Gateway or BSG System -- originating near Big Spring, TX, for deliveries to the Colorado City, TX Tank Farm.
Need For Infrastructure Among Challenges Outside Of U.S.
Outside the U.S., the lack of a large-scale pipeline network and related infrastructure makes getting oil and gas to market difficult, and sometimes cost-prohibitive. A recent McKinsey & Company report estimates it will take up to $1.4 trillion in infrastructure investment to complete the necessary pipelines, rail networks, and drilling and gathering infrastructure necessary to fully capture the potential of the shale revolution in the U.S. The investment required to take advantage of a global shale revolution will certainly be even greater.
Family-Owned Sunland As Diversified As Construction Companies Get
You might say Craig Meier started at the ground level on the road to becoming president of Sunland Construction, Inc., working as a roustabout for several small contractors, while earning his mechanical engineering degree from the University of Oklahoma.
1 Trillion Barrels: Global Potential Of Undeveloped Discoveries
Around the world there are nearly 1.4 trillion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) reserves in conventional undeveloped oil and gas fields according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest upstream outlook. This includes nearly 1.1 trillion boe of "technical reserves" – a term Wood Mackenzie uses for reserves for which there are no firm development plans in place.
Inergy, Enserco Team Up For Crude Oil Rail Terminal JV
An Inergy Midstream LP and Enserco Midstream LLC joint venture will own and operate a crude oil rail terminal, located in Douglas County, WY.
Rolls-Royce To Power Kazakh-China Gas Line
Rolls-Royce has announced a $175 million contract to supply Asia Gas Pipeline LLP (AGP) with equipment and related services to power the flow of natural gas through Kazakhstan’s Line C Gas Pipeline, part of the vast 1,833-km Central Asia-China Gas Pipeline network.
Prices, Transportation Determine Future For Canadian Oil And Gas
Recent reports on the state of crude oil and natural gas production in Canada suggest that the transportation bottleneck at the border will have long-ranging effects on Canada’s energy markets.
TAP Begins Land Easement And Acquisition
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has authorized its contractors to start surveys for collecting detailed information on the landowners living along the pipeline corridor to complement existing data.
Accelerating Benefits Of Shale Plays With Bundled Technology
With energy independence, energy exporting through LNG, billions of dollars in economic benefit, and more than 4 million jobs hinged to the development and deployment of the shale play natural gas reserves, one would think a national plan would materialize to capitalize quickly on the pending benefits.
Energy Reforms Would Open Mexicos Petroleum Industry To Global Investment
In a bid to fulfill a campaign promise, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has proposed a change to the constitution to allow private companies to share in the development, transportation and refining of Mexico’s vast energy resources, which are reserved exclusively to Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX). The changes would revert the constitution to its 1940 position, maintaining national ownership of all hydrocarbons but overturning 1950s-era changes that prevent any private interest participating in the energy industry.
Editor's Notebook: Still Waiting
President Obama sure is a cagey fellow; after watching him closely for the past six years I don’t think there’s much doubt about that. So, that leads me to the big question: what exactly is he planning to do with that long-overdue decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline?
Global Implications Of Shale Development
As we watch the development of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale in the Northeast, the implications are both obvious and subtle at the same time. The economic outcomes are measureable at the local level with new business opportunities for established shop owners as energy companies and their many contractors make a concerted effort to source goods and services within host communities.
LNG Export Terminal Creates Onshore, Underwater Pipeline Needs
United LNG, an LNG export company converting an offshore import terminal to export LNG, expects to require 300 miles of pipeline to serve the facility’s projected 4 BCF/d capacity once fully functional, according to Director Eric Saenz.
U.S. Shale Development Points To Far-Reaching Effect Worldwide
Ten years after the shale revolution first took off in the North Texas Barnett Shale formation, large-scale shale development primarily remains a phenomenon unique to the United States.
Crosstex Reaches Crossroads With ‘Transformational’ Cajun-Sibon Pipeline
During his 30 years in the energy business, Barry Davis has no doubt heard a fair amount of bluster and hyperbole about “big projects.” Yet, even a brief talk with the Crosstex president and CEO about the Cajun-Sibon expansion project leaves the listener keenly aware that in his mind there can be no understating the importance of this endeavor to his company.
ONEOK Adds Assets In Powder River Basin
ONEOK Partners, L.P. will invest $440 million in the natural gas liquids-rich area in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming to:
Con Edisons Clustering Cleans Air Over Gotham
New York City’s skyline is ever-changing and is now undergoing a change of another kind – a cleaning of the air around it, assisted by a Con Edison program, which helps people switch to cleaner-burning natural gas.
Centurion Gives Green Light To Cline Shale Pipeline
Centurion Pipeline L.P., a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp., plans to proceed with construction of the Cline Shale Pipeline system to transport crude oil from Irion, Sterling, Coke, Tom Green and Mitchell counties in West Texas to Centurion’s existing Colorado City station in Scurry County, TX.
Surge Control Dynamic Analysis For Centrifugal Compressor Systems
A key goal for operators with centrifugal compressors is to prevent the compressor from going into surge. This is accomplished by proper design of the piping system, associated equipment and control valves that can balance the opposing requirements associated with start-up, emergency shutdown and normal operation.
Marathon Expects Kurdish Oil Production By 2015
Marathon Oil Corp. reports that it will likely start producing oil from Iraq’s Kurdish region over the next two years.
CNPC Takes Reins In Latin American Deals As Venezuela Retreats
China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) made significant investments in place of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PdV), which has retreated from its international commitments following the death of President Hugo Chavez, said an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.
MSC Unleashes Safety Report On Pipeline Boring Practices
The Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) released “Recommended Practices for Pipeline Boring,” the seventh in a series of content-rich guidance documents developed by the coalition’s various subject-specific committees.
Spectra Energy To Construct $3 Billion Interstate Pipeline Into Florida
Spectra Energy Corp. announced that Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC, a joint venture of Spectra Energy and NextEra Energy, Inc., has been awarded a 465-mile interstate natural gas pipeline project by Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) to begin service in May 2017.
Rail Delivery Continues To Increase, But Pace Slows
With U.S. crude oil production at the highest level in two decades, outstripping pipeline capacity, the U.S. is relying more on railroads to move its new crude oil to refineries and storage centers. The amount of crude oil and refined petroleum products transported by rail totaled close to 356,000 carloads during the first half of 2013, up 48% from the same period in 2012, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Runaway Train Calamity Underscores Crude-By-Rail Concerns
When a train carrying 72 tanker cars of Bakken crude oil derailed in the Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic, killing 47 people and destroying 40 buildings, it powerfully rekindled the debate over the merits of rail vs. pipeline delivery throughout the industry.
- 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
