Oneok Partners LP plans to invest $180-240 million by first-half 2012 for NGL projects in the Cana-Woodford shale and Granite Wash plays.

El Paso Midstream Group Inc., a subsidiary of El Paso Corp., and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. have created a midstream joint venture covering producing areas from Utah to Pennsylvania to Texas.

Enterprise Products Partners LP has begun operations at its fourth NGL fractionator at Mont Belvieu, Tex., at nameplate capacity of 75,000 b/d.

Unit Corp., Tulsa, is in final stages of completing a 50 MMcfd turboexpander gas processing plant in the northeastern Texas Panhandle, where it is stepping up horizontal drilling in the Granite Wash oil and gas play.

Williams Partners LP will buy Williams Cos. Inc.’s gathering and processing assets in Colorado’s Piceance basin for $782 million, the companies reported.

Total E&P UK Ltd. has let a £500 million contract to Petrofac, London, to develop a gas processing plant on the Shetland Islands.

Eagle Ford shale activity in South Texas continues to spawn processing and transportation agreements.

Canada’s National Energy Board is making funding available to third parties interested in participating in the regulatory process for Vantage Pipeline Canada Inc.’s proposed Vantage Pipeline.

Natural gas liquids can play a significant part in the Marcellus shale's development, but only if government regulators, community leaders, and producers work together, said an official from a company that has successfully marketed NGLs in Appalachia.

The government of Sharjah has let a contract worth more than $250 million to Petrofac to assume operation from BP Sharjah of the Sajaa gas plant and related assets when BP’s concession expires in 2013.

PlusPetrol Peru Corporation SA has let a $32 million contract to GE Oil & Gas to supply compression and reinjection upgrade equipment to boost output of the Malvinas NGL processing plant, 400 km from Lima at the southern section of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

Gulf Coast Fractionators, a partnership operated by ConocoPhillips, plans a 42% expansion of its gas liquids fractionation plant at Mont Belvieu, Tex.

Cardinal Midstream LLC, Dallas, will pay $268 million to Antero Resources LLC, Denver, for natural gas midstream processing and gathering in eastern Oklahoma’s Arkoma Woodford shale.

Oneok Partners LP, Tulsa, will build a new gas processing plant and expand gathering and compression over the next 2 years in North Dakota, the company announced this week.