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Keytroller
Keytroller is offering Cyperwatch SAT— a satellite wireless hour, alarm and location meter designed to locate and track equipment in remote locations that don’t typically have cellular or WiFi. Cyberwatch CYBERWACCYCH SAT provides equipment monitoring from anywhere in the world, without the need for..
Newpark Mats and Integrated Services
Newpark Mats and Integrated Services (NMIS) offer two levels of protection against spills and leaks with its DX4 Sealing Technology. Featuring redundant seals integrated into the overlapping and interlocking lips of the company’s DURA-BASE® mats, the system reduces, and in some cases, completely eli..
BLM Proposal Would Stimulate Pipeline Construction
New proposed limits on flaring and venting of natural gas from wells on federal lands could be a boon to the pipeline construction industry. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed new limits in February to reduce atmospheric emissions of methane. Kyle Danish, a partner at Van Ness Feldman, ex..
Punj Lloyd-Limak JV Awarded TANAP Construction Contract
Punj Lloyd, in a 50-50 joint venture with Limak, was awarded the contract to construct 459 km of the 48-inch Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline Project (TANAP) gas pipeline in Turkey. Awarded by TANAP Doğalgaz İletim A.Ş., Punj Lloyd’s value of the project is US$ 204 million. TANAP will be built ..
Fluor Donation Kicks Off Industrial Construction Management Partnership with UH
The University of Houston and Fluor are partnering to promote state-of-the-art training for students in the UH Department of Construction Management. The partnership was cemented with a $1 million grant from the Fluor Foundation, Fluor’s philanthropic organization, which UH will use as a research gr..
Fluor Wins Construction Management Project
Fluor Corp. has won a construction management contract from Sunoco Logistics for the Mariner East 2 project at its Marcus Hook Industrial Complex on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value into backlog in the fourth quarter of 2015. Upon completion, Mariner E..
TransCanada to Build Tula-Villa de Reyes Pipeline in Mexico
TransCanada has been chosen to build, own and operate the Tula-Villa de Reyes pipeline in Mexico. Construction is supported by a 25-year natural gas transportation service contract for 886 MMcf/d with the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s state-owned power company. TransCanada expect..
Iowa Panel Says Construction Can Begin on Oil Pipeline
DES MOINES (AP) — State utility regulators have deemed that construction can begin on the Bakken oil pipeline in Iowa as soon as federal permits are obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and two other plans are filed. The Iowa Utilities Board voted unanimously this past week to issue the o..
Kinder Morgan Awards Contract for LNG Export Facility
Kinder Morgan subsidiaries awarded a contract for engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and startup of its Elba Island LNG export facility to IHI E&C. Located near Savannah, GA, the $2 billion project will consist of 10 trains using Shell proprietary technology. The new units will ..
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,..
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..
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..
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 ..
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..
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..
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..
Summit Starts Up Crude Pipeline Systems in Bakken Shale
THE WOODLANDS, TX – Summit Midstream Partners has begun operating the Stampede Lateral crude oil transmission pipeline in North Dakota and is in the final stages of completing the nearby Little Muddy crude oil transmission pipeline, which includes an interconnect with Enbridge’s North Dakota Pipeli..
Fluor Awarded Sweet Gas Plant Project in Canada
Fluor Corporation has been chosen by the Cutbank Ridge Partnership to provide engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) for Saturn 15-27, Phase 2 Sweet Gas Plant Project near Dawson Creek, B.C.. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the fourth quarter of 2015. The project..
FERC Approves Sabal Trail’s $3.2 Billion Gas Pipeline
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in the US has issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity to Sabal Trail Transmission’s $3.2 billion interstate natural gas pipeline project. Sabal Trail Transmission is a joint venture between Spectra Energy Partners, NextEra Energy and ..
Weatherford to Reduce Workforce Further in 1st Half of 2016
Oilfield services company Weatherford International will cut 6,000 positions in the first half of the year, which accounts for about 14% of its workforce. In a written statement, CEO Bernard Duroc-Danner said he believes oil prices will eventually respond to a realignment of supply and demand, but ..
Enterprise Products Completes Aegis Pipeline
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. has completed construction, commissioned, and initiated operation of the remaining 162-mile portion of the Aegis ethane pipeline from Lake Charles to the Napoleonville, LA area. The 270-mile, 20-inch Aegis system originates at Mont Belvieu and is home to over 110 M..
Where There Is Oil, There Will Be Pipelines
“An Industry in Transition: Where There is Oil & Gas There Will Be Pipelines” was presented Monday night by Pipeline & Gas Journal Editor Jeff Share to members of the Pipelines Association Association. Is this a crazy world or what? Would anyone disagree that it takes a strong stomach and nerv..
Vaquero Midstream Reaches Construction Milestone
In a sign of progress on its gas gathering and processing project in the southern Delaware Basin, Vaquero Midstream LLC took delivery of cryogenic equipment, and is continuing installation on its plant and pipeline network. Located in Pecos County near the Waha Hub and the Lone Star NGL pipeline, t..
TransCanada Amends Filing for Energy East Pipeline
TransCanada filed an amendment to its existing application with the National Energy Board (NEB) to adjust the proposed route, scope and capital cost of the Energy East pipeline project based on extensive landowner, environmental, community and customer input. The original Energy East proposal calle..
Lake Charles LNG Project Receives FERC Approval
The BG Group’s Lake Charles, LA, LNG export project has received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This was the key remaining regulatory consent for the Lake Charles LNG project, which BG Group is developing with Energy Transfer Equity LP and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. Ene..
Statoil Awards Johan Svedrup Pipeline Contracts
Statoil has, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup partners, awarded contracts for the line pipe, coating and pipe installation of the Johan Sverdrup export pipelines. The total contract value is estimated at slightly less than 2.5 billion Norwegian Krone ($279 million). The three contracts cover both th..
World News: Asian Leaders Laud TAPI Pipeline
Leaders from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India joined the president of Turkmenistan to discuss construction of a natural gas pipeline that could help ease energy deficits in South Asia: The 1,814-km Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline is expected to be operational by 20..
Howard Midstream to Build Dos Águilas Open Access System
Howard Midstream Energy Partners’ subsidiary, Dos Águilas, LLC, plans to permit, construct and operate the proposed Dos Águilas project, an open access system of refined products terminals and pipelines spanning from Corpus Christi, TX to northern Mexico. The Dos Águilas project will offer direct ..
North Dakota Regulators Approve Dakota Access Pipeline
BISMARCK, ND (AP) — North Dakota regulators on Wednesday approved the biggest-capacity crude pipeline proposed to date that would move nearly 600,000 bpd from the oil patch to Illinois. Some things to know about the $3.8 billion, 1,150-mile project that crosses four states: The North Dakota Publi..
- Phillips 66 to Shut LA Oil Refinery, Ending Major Gasoline Output Amid Supply Concerns
- 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. Appeals Court Blocks Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Pipeline Permits
- Malaysia’s Oil Exports to China Surge Amid Broader Import Decline
- 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
