Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, Tenn., is adding a furnace to one of its three olefin crackers at its plant in Longview, Tex.

Oneok Partners LP, Tulsa, reported it will invest $340-360 million through first-quarter 2014 to expand natural gas gathering and build new processing in the Cana-Woodford shale in Oklahoma.

MarkWest Energy Partners LP, Denver, announced last month it had concluded long-term gathering and processing agreements with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to support a 120-MMcfd expansion of MarkWest’s Carthage East cryogenic processing plant in Panola County in East Texas.

Cardinal Midstream LLC, Dallas, has placed on stream its third cryogenic processing plant in the Arkoma Woodford shale (OGJ Online, Oct. 11, 2010).

Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP, Houston, will expand the its NGL fractionator at its Sweeny, Tex., plant in Old Ocean, Tex. Construction is to start next month and be completed in February 2013.

Current and expected floods of natural gas liquids to the US Gulf Coast have prompted plans for yet more capacity at the nation’s main NGL fractionation center in southeast Texas.

Devon Gas Services LP, Norman, Okla., has awarded a construction contract to KBR, Houston, to expand Devon’s 200-MMcfd gas processing plant in Canadian County, Okla.

Nuevo Midstream LLC plans to increase processing and treating capacity at its Ramsey plant in the Delaware basin near Orla, Tex.

Pembina Pipeline Corp. will build, own, and operate a 200 MMcfd NGL extraction plant and associated NGL and gas gathering pipelines in the Berland area of west central Alberta, the company reported.

Enterprise Products Partners LP reported the start up of operations at a fifth NGL fractionator at its Mont Belvieu, Tex., complex, east of Houston. Initial volumes exceed the unit’s 75,000 b/d nameplate capacity, EPP said.

Encana Corp. and Pembina Pipeline Corp. have signed an agreement under which Pembina will invest about $230 million (Can.) to expand processing and liquids extraction capacities at Encana’s Resthaven natural gas processing plant in west-central Alberta.

Eagle Ford Gathering LLC, a 50-50 joint venture of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP and Copano Energy LLC, reached a long-term agreement with Williams Partners LP to process Eagle Ford shale production at Williams Partners' Markham processing plant in Matagorda County, Tex.

DCP Midstream LLC, Denver, and Targa Resources Partners LP, Houston, have reached agreements that will, according to the joint announcement, provide a “long-term anchor commitment” to DCP Midstream’s Sandhills Pipeline and an interconnect of the pipeline to a new delivery point with Targa’s Cedar Bayou fractionators’ plant at Mont Belvieu, Tex.

DCP Midstream LLC, Denver, reported signing a long-term gas gathering and processing agreement with a joint venture operating in the south-central Texas Eagle Ford shale gas play.