North America
New U.S. Border-Crossing Pipelines Bring Shale Gas to More Regions in Mexico
U.S. pipeline capacity for natural gas exports to Mexico has rapidly expanded in the past few years and currently stands at 7.3 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). This existing cross-border capacity primarily supplies the Northeast and Central regions of Mexico. New capacity projected to be complet..
Woodfibre LNG Moves Ahead With BC’s First LNG Project
SQUAMISH, British Columbia (AP) — British Columbia-based oil and gas company Woodfibre LNG says it is proceeding with a proposed liquefied natural gas development in what would be the province’s first such project. B.C. Premier Christy Clark said Friday that the development will create 650 jobs dur..
Go or No-Go Expected For Enbridge Pipeline By November
The Canadian government announced on Thursday that it will hold itself to a two-month deadline for a yay or nay on the controversial Northern Gateway and Line 3 oil pipelines—two projects that would alleviate pipeline capacity issues currently choking Canadian oil companies. Another pipeline projec..
Trudeau Pushes Through LNG Megaproject Despite Environmental Concerns
The Canadian federal government has given the green light to the $8-billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project, proposed by Malaysia’s Petronas three years ago. The decision is highly controversial because it follows an assessment that found the project will produce significant amounts of CO2, which woul..
Lack Of Pipeline Capacity Could Force Down Canadian Crude Prices
The pipelines carrying Canadian heavy crude to the U.S. are running at capacity and soon, more oil will have to start being transported by railway as oil sands operators ramp up production. The bad news for these producers is that railway transportation of crude is costlier than pipelines, and they ..
Energy Forecasts Show Urgent Need for Canadian Oil Pipelines
Forecasted growth in Canadian oil production shows new major oil pipelines are urgently needed to deliver energy to domestic and world markets, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) announced in its 2016 Crude Oil Forecast, Markets and Transportation report. CAPP’s report offered a..
Lack Of Pipelines Continues To Dog Canada’s Oil Industry
Canadian oil companies have struggled for years to build enough pipeline capacity to get their oil out of landlocked Alberta, and more than a handful of proposed projects have been stifled by intense opposition from people living in affected areas. Still, the industry is applying a lot of pressure ..
Bad News For The Bakken As Obama Administration Blocks Pipeline
The Obama administration shocked the oil industry last week, pulling the plug on a major oil pipeline from the Bakken that had become a flashpoint between a pipeline company on the one hand, and a growing coalition of Native American tribes and environmentalists on the other. Everyone was anxiously..
UGI Energy Begins Construction of Sunbury Pipeline
UGI Energy Services celebrated the start of construction on its Sunbury Pipeline with a groundbreaking ceremony in central Pennsylvania near the Panda Hummel Station power plant it will serve. The 35-mile-long pipeline will carry natural gas from the Transco interstate pipeline in eastern Lycoming ..
Supplemental Open Season Underway for Bakken Pipeline Transport
Dakota Access and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Company (ETCO) launched a binding supplemental open season on Aug. 12 to solicit shipper commitments for the Bakken Pipeline. The two companies expect incremental transportation capacity for Bakken/Three Forks production will be determined based on these ..
New Brunswick Building Trades Unions Fully Support Energy East
The head of the New Brunswick Building Trades Unions says the Energy East pipeline project is about the future for New Brunswick construction workers. “The economy has been slow over the last few years in New Brunswick. This has caused many of our workers to travel out of province for work an..
NEB Conditionally Approves Vaughan Mainline Expansion Project
Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has approved an application from TransCanada PipeLines Limited to construct and operate approximately 11.7 km of new natural gas pipeline in the City of Vaughan, Ontario, subject to 19 conditions. The Board’s written reasons will be released on or before Septembe..
Bear Paw Receives Approval to Construct LNG Pipeline
Bear Paw Pipeline Corporation Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (LNGL), has received Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board approval to construct a 62.5 km natural gas pipeline from Goldboro to the proposed Bear Head LNG liquefied natural gas export facility in..
Canyon Midstream Expanding James Lake System
Canyon Midstream Partners will expand its James Lake system into Winkler County, TX, located near southeast New Mexico. In response to demand for sour gas processing capacity, the company will add more compression at its new field facility in Kermit, along with a 22-mile trunkline extension capable ..
Environmentalists Take Aim at TransCanada Pipeline Project
BOSTON (AP) — Environmentalists are again taking aim at the company that proposed the Keystone XL pipeline — this time for another of its projects they fear would send hundreds of supertankers laden with crude oil down the Atlantic coast to refineries in Texas and Louisiana. TransCanada is behind t..
Big Oil Begins To Worry About Trump’s Wall
Donald Trump’s idea to build a wall along the southern border of the U.S. has been called everything from controversial to harebrained, but—to the likely dismay of some of the oil majors—it’s now officially part of the Republican Party’s platform. As it turns out, the idea has been on the GOP table..
Canada Court Overturns Approval of Enbridge Oil Pipeline
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal has overturned the previous government’s controversial approval of a pipeline proposal that would bring oil to the Pacific Coast for shipment to Asia. In a ruling released Thursday, the court said the former Conservative government did not adequately ..
CAPP Annual Oil Forecast Shows Canada Needs New Major Oil Pipelines
Forecasted growth in Canadian oil production shows new major oil pipelines are urgently needed to deliver safe, secure and reliable energy to domestic and world markets, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers announced today in its 2016 Crude Oil Forecast, Markets and Transportation report...
TransCanada Partnership Awarded Contract to Build $2.1 Billion Sur de Texas-Tuxpan Natural Gas Pipeline in Mexico
TransCanada Corporation today announced that its joint venture with IEnova, Infraestructura Marina del Golfo (IMG), has been chosen to build, own and operate the $2.1 billion Sur de Texas-Tuxpan natural gas pipeline in Mexico. The project will be supported by a 25-year natural gas transportation ser..
AGDC Names LNG Expert as New President
The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) Board of Directors appointed Keith M. Meyer as its new president. The announcement followed a five-month national search initiated in December, following the resignation of Dan Fauske. Meyer will assumes his new role June 15. Meyer has more than 35 ..
Wood Group Mustang, Grupo Diavaz Form Engineering JV in Mexico
Wood Group Mustang and Grupo Diavaz, a Mexican oil and gas operator and services company, have created a joint venture engineering business to capitalize on Mexico’s energy reform. Mustang Diavaz is based in Mexico City and will provide engineering, procurement and construction management services t..
Pembina Now Fully Contracted for Duvernay I Gas Plant
Pembina Pipeline entered into agreements with a multinational firm to construct infrastructure relating to its previously announced Duvernay I, a 100 MMcf/d shallow cut gas plant. The construction work includes condensate, gas and water field handling, a gas gathering trunk line and a fuel line, val..
NEB Says Mackenzie Gas Project Still in Public Interest
The National Energy Board (NEB) will move the sunset clauses for the Mackenzie Gas Project’s Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and Mackenzie Gathering System to Dec. 31, 2022. The extension to the sunset clause for the pipeline does not come into effect until it is approved by the federal government. In a ..
Sierra Club Files Suit Against New Construction of Bakken Pipeline
The Iowa branch of the Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit against the state’s Utilities Board (IUB) and Dakota Access LCC in an effort to block the construction of a pipeline that would connect North Dakota’s energy resources to the southern half of the United States. Wally Taylor, a lawyer for the na..
Reform Leads to Opportunities, says Mexico’s Energy Secretary
Mexican Energy Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell used the launch of a regional oil and gas forum Thursday in the nation’s capital to reiterate his country’s commitment to the reform of its domestic energy market. Citing measures initiated by President Enrique Peña Nieto and approved by the nation’s ..
Will Canada Ever Build Another Pipeline?
It seems hard to believe, but we may never build another pipeline in Canada. A nation whose wealth is closely tied to resources seems to have suddenly decided that economic stagnation is preferable to any project that might – and I stress the word might – have a negative effect on the environment. ..
Canada Regulators OK Pipeline Expansion Project
SEATTLE (AP) — Canada energy regulators on Thursday recommended approval of a pipeline-expansion project that would dramatically increase the number of oil tankers moving through the waters between the U.S. and Canada. The National Energy Board recommended the federal government conditionally appro..
Canadian Energy Minister Speaks Out on Downturn
Alberta has a glut of oil and natural gas hanging over the energy markets these days, but there’s another commodity piling up in the province, waiting to burst out: frustration. According to the Calgary Herald, frustration was a prevailing theme for the province’s energy minister – and many industr..
EIA Projecting Steady Growth for HGLs
U.S. production of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL) – a group of products including ethane, propane, butanes and natural gasoline – is expected to increase from 3.86 MMbpd in 2015 to 4.33 MMbpd in 2017, according to EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook. HGLs are produced at both natural gas processing plan..
Solomon Forecasts Gas Demand for Oil Sands to 2025
Solomon Natural Gas Services (Solomon) recently released its Gas Demand for Alberta Oil Sands to 2025 report,[1] which represents the first major revision by Solomon in 10 years; driven primarily by the slide in oil and bitumen prices since late 2014. The report analyzes more than 150 producing, un..
- 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
