08/18/2008
-- Enterprise, partners outline Texas offshore port system Enterprise Products Partners, Teppco Partners, and Oiltanking Holding Americas have formed a JV to design, construct, own, and operate a Texas offshore oil port and pipeline system.
08/17/2008
-- Reversed line would haul Canadian oil to Maine Portland Pipe Line Corp. and Montreal Pipe Line Ltd. launched an open season to assess interest in reversing an existing 18-in. pipeline to ship Canadian oil from Montreal to South Portland, Me.
08/14/2008
-- Gorgon JV plans Barrow Island domestic gas plant The Gorgon JV, now developing the Gorgon area gas fields off W. Australia for LNG exports, has committed to including a 300 terajoules/day gas processing plant alongside the LNG facilities planned for Barrow Island.
08/14/2008
-- SCP line open; BTC, WREP lines remain shut down BP has restored exports of gas from Azerbaijan into the South Caucasus Pipeline, but said the 150,000 b/d WREP system remains shut, as does the 1 million b/d BTC oil line.
08/13/2008
-- BP declares force majeure on WREP, SCP systems BP said a force majeure has been declared on liftings of oil from the 150,000-b/d Western Route Export Pipeline, while supplies of gas through the South Caucasus Pipeline can continue to flow gas into Turkey for 7 days.
08/11/2008
-- Bengal plans 55,000 b/d pipeline expansion Bengal Pipeline plans to add a pumping station near Garyville, La., to expand throughput capacity by 55,000 b/d of its products pipeline between Garyville and Baton Rouge, La.
08/11/2008
-- Sempra Energy to acquire EnergySouth, gas storage Sempra Energy, San Diego, plans to expand its Gulf Coast gas storage and pipeline operations by merging with Mobile, Ala.-based EnergySouth Inc. for $510 million in cash.
08/11/2008
-- Gate LNG terminal adds supplier, plans to expand E.On Ruhrgas has agreed to send 3 billion cu m/year of regasified LNG through the Gate LNG terminal in the Netherlands starting in second-half 2011 and will acquire a stake in the facility.
08/08/2008
-- FERC approves Midcontinental Express pipeline Midcontinent Express, a JV of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Energy Transfer Partners, received final US FERC approval to construct its $1.27 billion Midcontinent Express gas pipeline.
08/08/2008
-- FERC approves Midcontinent Express pipeline Midcontinent Express, a JV of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Energy Transfer Partners, received final US FERC approval to construct its $1.27 billion Midcontinent Express gas pipeline.
08/08/2008
-- Mitsubishi drops California LNG plan, eyes Alaska Mitsubishi subsidiary Sound Energy Solutions, faced with challenges in Southern California but eyeing new opportunities in Alaska, has abandoned plans to construct a regasification terminal at Long Beach.
08/07/2008
-- Fire-damaged BTC oil line could have 5-week shutdown The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, damaged Aug. 6 by an explosion and fire, could be shut down for as long as 5 weeks, according to a spokesperson for Botas International Ltd.
08/06/2008
-- Socar declares force majeure on Azeri oil exports Socar, following an explosion and fire on a section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline in Turkey, has declared force majeure on its exports of Azeri crude.
08/04/2008
-- Alaska lawmakers grant natural gas pipeline license The Alaska Senate on Aug. 1 approved a state license for TransCanada to pursue federal certification for a 1,715-mile gas pipeline from ANS to the Alberta Hub in Canada.
08/04/2008
-- LNG Ltd. lets contracts for Gladstone LNG plant LNG Ltd. signed an engineering and construction contract with SK Engineering & Construction for the Fisherman's Landing LNG project in Gladstone, Queensland, based on CSM feedstock.
07/31/2008
-- YPFB, Transredes start construction of GCC gas line After earlier delays, Bolivia's state-owned YPFB and recently nationalized gas transporter Transredes began construction of the 130 MMcfd Gasoducto Carrasco-Cochabamba gas pipeline.
07/31/2008
-- Transneft says no more delays of pipeline Executives of Russia's oil pipeline monopoly OAO Transneft pledged not to postpone the launch of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline again.
07/29/2008
-- ExxonMobil cranks up Nigerian NGL project ExxonMobil Corp. unit Mobil Producing Nigeria has begun operating its $1.3 billion East Area Natural Gas Liquids II project on Bonny Island, about 17 miles off Nigeria.
07/28/2008
-- KoGas to pay record prices for LNG from Tangguh Indonesian officials said Korea Gas Corp., bowing to threats of delays, has agreed to purchase LNG from the Tangguh project at a record price of $20/MMbtu.
