Trinidad and Tobago’s National Gas Co. Ltd. (NGC) reached an agreement with Methanol Holdings Trinidad Ltd. (MHTL) for the supply of 100 MMcfd of natural gas to MHTL’s proposed $2 billion ammonia-urea-melamine complex.

Williams Partners, Tulsa, has let a contract to Exterran Holdings, Houston, for the design, fabrication, and installation of two gas processing plants in West Virginia.

Talisman Energy Inc. decided against participating in Sasol Canada's gas-to-liquids project following completion of a feasibility study.

Atlas Pipeline Partners LP has brought online its 60 MMcfd cryogenic gas processing plant at Velma, Okla., bringing the site’s total processing capacity to 160 MMcfd.

DCP Midstream Partners LP, Denver, will buy the 80-MMcfd Crossroads gas processing plant and associated gathering in Harrison County, Tex., from Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP, Radnor, Penn. The purchase price is about $63 million.

Consulting engineers have issued a best estimate contingent resource of 31.6 million stb for Block 95 in the Maranon basin of Peru, said Gran Tierra Energy Inc., Calgary.

MarkWest Utica EMG LLC, a joint venture of MarkWest Energy Partners LP, Denver, and Energy & Minerals Group, Houston, have signed agreements with Gulfport Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, to provide gathering, processing, fractionation, and marketing in the liquids-rich Utica shale in eastern Ohio.

Sasol Petroleum International, the upstream subsidiary of Sasol Ltd., has started up its 63 million gigajoule/year (158 MMscfd) expansion at the Temane, Mozambique, gas processing plant. Capacity now is 458 MMscfd.

Delphi Energy Corp., Calgary, started Montney gas-liquids production on May 13, 2012, its 30 MMcfd compression and dehydration facility at Bigstone East northwest of Edmonton, Alta.

Copano Energy LLC, Houston, will add 400 MMcfd of cryogenic processing capacity at its Houston Central complex, in Colorado County, Tex., west of Houston, the company reported.

US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar hailed the collaboration that made an agreement possible as he signed the record of decision authorizing Anadarko Petroleum Corp.’s Greater Natural Buttes natural gas project in eastern Utah.