- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2019
EQM stops work on portion of Mountain Valley line
EQM Midstream Partners told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission via letter last week the company would stop some work on the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia, as the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 15, 2019
U.S. looks to seize tanker held in Gibraltar
The U.S. Department of Justice applied today to seize the Iranian tanker held in Gibraltar after it was accused of carrying Iranian crude bound for Syria, violating EU sanctions.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 15, 2019
Inter Pipeline announces new oil line project
Canada-based Inter Pipeline Ltd. announced it’s received sufficient shipper support for construction of a $100 million pipeline connection between its Bow River and Central Alberta pipeline systems in western Canada, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
Trump claims credit for cracker plant during PA visit
President Trump boasted Tuesday afternoon about his administration’s efforts to “revive” the nation’s energy and manufacturing sectors during a visit to Royal Dutch Shell’s ethane cracker plant construction site in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 14, 2019
New lawsuit filed over Mountain Valley Pipeline
Conservation groups have filed a new lawsuit aimed at the Mountain Valley Pipeline over its impacts on threatened and endangered species, The Associated Press reported.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 13, 2019
LNG Canada project to ship gas to Asia as early as 2024
A C$40 billion ($30 billion) liquefied natural gas export project in British Columbia led by Royal Dutch Shell (40% share) is on track to start exporting LNG to Asia as early as 2024, having received a significant financial boost from Canada’s federal government.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 12, 2019
EnLink executive chair Davis reassumes CEO role
EnLink Midstream announced last week Barry E. Davis, the company’s executive chairman, who led EnLink as its CEO from its founding in 2014 to 2018, has reassumed the role of chief executive while continuing to serve as chairman.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 9, 2019
NGL Energy Partners sells refined products assets
NGL Energy Partners announced it’s selling TransMontaigne Product Services (Tpsl) and associated assets to an unnamed buyer for roughly $300 million, including equity consideration, inventory and net working capital, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 8, 2019
Tribal leaders request hearing concerning Dapl
South Dakota tribal leaders are requesting a public hearing in North Dakota about a proposed increase in crude oil carried by the Dakota Access Pipeline (Dapl), Kallanish Energy reports. Energy Transfer Partners plans to expand the pipeline’s capacity from more than 500,000 barrels per day, to as much as 1.1 million barrels per day (Mmbpd) to meet growing demand without constructing additional pipelines or rail shipments.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2019
Black Bear inks Cotton Valley gathering & processing pact
Black Bear Midstream said Tuesday it’s entered into a seven-year gas gathering and processing agreement with an unnamed Cotton Valley producer in Louisiana’s Desoto and Caddo parishes, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 7, 2019
Caliber buys Bakken assets from American Midstream
Caliber Midstream Holdings said Tuesday it’s acquired Bakken assets in North Dakota from American Midstream Partners for an undisclosed price, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 6, 2019
Enbridge holding open season for Canadian Mainline
Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge has initiated an open season for transportation services on the Canadian Mainline pipeline system, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 5, 2019
Settlement allows Midwest refiners to go east
A major gasoline pipeline has reached an agreement to give Midwestern refiners greater access to Pennsylvania markets, Kallanish Energy learns. Houston-based Buckeye Partners has reached an agreement to allow Midwestern refiners to ship more fuel farther into Pennsylvania on its Laurel pipeline, a 350-mile line which historically was used by Philadelphia refineries to transport motor fuel and heating oil west across Pennsylvania.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 2, 2019
Pin Oak secures interconnection to Epic, Red Oak lines
Pin Oak Corpus Christi Monday announced new interconnection agreements with Epic Pipeline and Red Oak Pipeline and commencement of construction on its new crude oil trading hub at Taft, Texas, north of Corpus Christi, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 31, 2019
Sovereign wealth fund GIC joins BlackRock, KKR in Abu Dhabi
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC has joined international investors BlackRock and KKR in an oil pipeline partnership with Abu Dhabi’s National Oil Co.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 30, 2019
US OCTG prices stay stuck in bear market
The slow on-going recovery for US steel prices is unlikely to affect the oil country tubular goods market for the foreseeable future, Kallanish hears from market sources.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 29, 2019
Neb says no federal scrutiny needed for gas line
TC Energy’s proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline to supply the LNG Canada project in northern British Columbia is not subject to federal regulation, Canada’s National Energy Board said Friday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 29, 2019
Oneok announces expansions to natgas, Ngl infrastructure
Midstreamer Oneok last week announced $700 million in plans to expand its natural gas and natural gas liquids infrastructure between now and 2021, including: * A 200 million cubic feet per day (Mmcf/d) expansion of the Bear Creek natural gas processing facility and related infrastructure in the Williston Basin* Mid-Continent Ngl fractionation facility expansions totaling roughly 65,000 barrels per day, and additional Ngl infrastructure to increase capacity between the Elk Creek and Arbuckle II pipelines* A 40,000 Bpd additional expansion of the West Texas LPG pipeline in the Permian Basin.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 24, 2019
Petition calls for halt to plastics pollution to streams, oceans
A coalition of 270 community and conservation groups across the United States has filed a legal petition demanding that the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 16, 2019
Charletta named Equitrans president
Midstreamer Equitrans Midstream announced Monday Diana M. Charletta was appointed president of the company and president of the general partner of EQM Midstream Partners LP, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 16, 2019
Longhorn launches open season for Touchdown crude system
Longhorn Midstream Holdings announced Monday its LM Touchdown Crude II LLC unit launched a binding open season to support development of its Touchdown Crude Oil Gathering System in the Northern Delaware Basin, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 15, 2019
The Permian is the ‘swing producer in the world’: Souki
While predicting crude oil price swings is risky business, liquefied natural gas export player and Tellurian chairman Charif Souki said last week the Permian Basin in West Texas/southeast New Mexico is the world market’s gatekeeper, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 15, 2019
Bellville Tube to reopen after 5-year hiatus
A Bellville, Texas, tube mill idled in 2014, is being restarted under new ownership, a company press release tells Kallanish, sister publication of Kallanish Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 11, 2019
Power from natgas to rise in 2019, slip in 2020: Steo
The share of U.S. total utility-scale electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 35% in 2018, to 38% in 2019, and then decline slightly in 2020, according to the latest Steo, Short-Term Energy Outlook, produced by the Energy Information Administration.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 10, 2019
Petrobras strikes deal with regulator to sell assets
Brazilian state-owned oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has reached an agreement with anti-trust regulator Cade to sell natural gas transportation and distribution assets.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 9, 2019
Midstreamer Lucid Energy inks pact with XTO
Lucid Energy Group Tuesday announced the company has executed a new, long-term natural gas gathering and processing agreement with ExxonMobil unit XTO Energy, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 8, 2019
Delek says gas exports to Egypt by year’s end
Israel’s Delek Drilling said it has completed testing of a subsea natural gas pipeline to Egypt, but commercial sales by June 30 did not occur as originally projected, Kallanish Energy understands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 8, 2019
Working gas injected falls under 100 Bcf 2nd straight week
The volume of working natural gas injected in the most recent weekly report by the Energy Information Administration was under 100 billion cubic feet for the second straight week, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 7, 2019
Pipeline Supporters Rally for Atlantic Coast Pipeline Against Enviro Elites
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pipelines supporters from affected North Carolina communities have had enough of environmental activists and political elites standing in their way.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 3, 2019
UGI unit acquiring Columbia Midstream for $1.28B
UGI Corp. has announced its UGI Energy Services unit is acquiring Columbia Midstream Group (Cmg) from a subsidiary of TC Energy for roughly $1.28 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 2, 2019
Saddlehorn line to expand, add Ft. Laramie origin
Saddlehorn Pipeline Co. announced Monday the expansion of the Saddlehorn pipeline and a new Ft. Laramie, Wyoming origin point for the line, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 1, 2019
Dominion withdraws natgas project, blames Ferc
Dominion Energy Transmission on Friday withdrew its application filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the $48 million, 120 million cubic feet per day (Mmcf/d) Sweden Valley pipeline expansion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2019
Chisholm O&G, Gastar Exploration merging
A pair of independent producers, Chisholm Oil and Gas of Oklahoma, and Gastar Exploration of Houston, which exited Chapter 11 just five months ago, announced Wednesday they’re merging, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
U.S. Oil & Natural Gas Industry Has Caused a “Tectonic Change” in Energy Markets
Following a “tectonic change” in global energy markets over the past decade from the shale revolution, “there is a bright future for natural gas,” according to American Gas Association President and CEO Karen Harbert.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 19, 2019
Trudeau government again approves Trans Mountain line
As expected, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government has approved the long-delayed expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline in western Canada, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 18, 2019
Maryland AG asks federal judge to dismiss Columbia suit
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by TransCanada’s Columbia Gas Transmission unit that wants to build a natural gas pipeline through three miles of the Maryland countryside state officials have rejected.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 13, 2019
Appalachian storage hub loan guarantee perhaps in trouble
An amendment to a major government appropriations bill (H.R. 2740) could mean trouble for a $1.9 billion Energy Department loan guarantee for the proposed natural gas liquids storage facility planned for Appalachia, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 13, 2019
Southwestern states have better solar resources: EIA
Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in the U.S. operated on average at roughly 25% of their electricity generating capacity, based on an average of annual values, from 2014 through 2017, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2019
Meritage launches open season for Thunder Creek extension
Meritage Midstream Services II said Monday its Thunder Creek NGL Pipeline subsidiary launched a binding open season to support construction of a 140-mile extension to its existing natural gas liquids pipeline, Kallanish Energy reports.US line pipe prices sink again
U.S. line pipe prices sunk in May, Kallanish Energy’s sister publication, Kallanish, learns from analyst Pipe Logix. Average U.S. line pipe prices fell by 1.5% from April to May, reaching a combined $1,757/short ton at the distribution level.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2019
Martin Midstream sells storage assets in $215M deal
Martin Midstream Partners said Monday it’s selling to Hartree Cardinal Gas its membership interests in Arcadia Gas Storage, Cadeville Gas Storage Monroe Gas Storage, and Perryville Gas Storage for $215 million in cash.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2019
Flaring hits record high in Q1 in Permian
Natural gas flaring in the Permian Basin reached an all-time high in 2019’s first quarter due to the lack of pipelines, according to data from Rystad Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 31, 2019
PG&E plan to use blackouts to prevent wildfires OKed
California regulators Thursday approved PG&E Corp.’s plan to impose blackouts this summer across large swaths of its territory to prevent major wildfires — and told customers don’t count on reliable electric service as the fire season gets underway.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 28, 2019
Permian crude production may finally have met its match
HOUSTON – It may be hard to believe, but there could be a big transportation change coming to the Permian Basin of West Texas/southeast New Mexico.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 23, 2019
U.S. asks Supreme Court for more time on Acp appeal
The U.S. Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to extend the time the government has to file a petition in an appeal of a circuit court decision preventing Dominion Energy from building the Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline (Acp) across the Appalachian Trail in Virginia.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 22, 2019
Nrg buying Stream Energy’s retail energy business
Nrg Energy has agreed to acquire Stream Energy’s retail electricity and natural gas business for $300 million plus working capital in an all-cash deal, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 16, 2019
PG&E power lines caused California’s ‘deadliest wildfire’: officials
California authorities said Wednesday power lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (PG&E) caused the state’s most destructive wildfire ever – which killed 85 and nearly destroyed an entire city, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 16, 2019
Pipeline explosion forces producer into bankruptcy
A natural gas explosion last September in a pipeline not yet in service has led to an independent producer backed by Goldman Sachs’s private equity arm and the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 14, 2019
NextDecade founder Eisbrenner dies at 58
Kathleen M. Eisbrenner, 58, founder and chairman of liquefied natural gas development company NextDecade Corp. died last week, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 13, 2019
Columbia reaches settlement concerning gas explosions
The three municipalities affected by last September’s gas explosions have reached an $80 million settlement with local gas distribution company Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 8, 2019
Howard Energy will build gathering system in Stack
Howard Energy Partners (Hep) Tuesday announced its signed a deal with an unnamed producer to construct, own and operate a new natural gas gathering system in Oklahoma’s Stack play, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 7, 2019
Columbia Gas to announce settlement for explosion costs
Three Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts, communities impacted by the series of gas explosions and fires on Sept. 13 have reached a settlement with the company responsible for the disaster, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 3, 2019
North Dakota regulator approves 77-mile line
The North Dakota Public Service Commission this week approved a siting permit for a $125 million, 77-mile natural gas liquids pipeline in northwest North Dakota, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 2, 2019
Thousands of miles of O&G wells to be drilled over next 5 years
More than 1 million kilometers (621,371.192 miles) of new oil and gas wells will be drilled over the next five years, analytics/consulting firm Rystad Energy projects.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 1, 2019
Rangeland Midstream Canada announces pipeline project
Rangeland Energy III’s Rangeland Midstream Canada unit Tuesday announced plans to design, construct and operate new crude oil and condensate pipelines in the Marten Hills region of north central Alberta, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 30, 2019
Tellurian holding open seasons for lines costing $2.4B
Liquefied natural gas export company Tellurian announced Monday separate binding open seasons for two proposed pipelines it says will connect areas of constrained shale production and debottleneck natural gas-line infrastructure, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 30, 2019
Panama Canal expansion allows more NGL cargoes
Nearly three years ago, the new, larger Panama Canal opened for business, the first expansion since the canal opened 105 years ago, allowing the transit of larger cargo ships.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 29, 2019
Midcoast secures anchor shipper for CJ Express expansion
Midstreamer Midcoast Energy, through its East Texas operating unit, has agreements with an undisclosed anchor shipper and a Haynesville Shale producer for its CJ Express pipeline expansion project.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 29, 2019