Design and construction costs for refining and petrochemical projects rose for the fourth consecutive 6-month period to a record high, according to the IHS CERA Downstream Capital Costs Index.

Enterprise Products Partners LP, Houston, plans to build a 75,000-b/d NGL fractionator at its Mont Belvieu, Tex., site. The plant, sixth in the company’s push, will accommodate continued growth of liquids-rich natural gas production from Texas’s Eagle Ford shale basin, the company said.

Plains All American Pipeline LP is undertaking a construction and expansion project serving the Bone Spring play in the Delaware basin of West Texas.

Southcross Energy, Dallas, will build a 200-MMcfd gas processing plant in Refugio County, Tex., to process liquids-rich production from the Eagle Ford shale in South Texas.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP, Radnor, Pa., paid $11.4 million for a natural gas gathering system and processing plant in the Texas Panhandle. The company’s announcement did not name the seller, nor did the company respond to a request to identify it.

Plains All American Pipeline LP (PAA) plans to build a 300,000 b/d, 130-mile crude oil and condensate pipeline, a marine terminal facility, and 1.5 million bbl of storage to serve growing Eagle Ford production in South Texas.

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has begun its formal environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) process in Italy.

DCP Midstream LLC, Denver, will build a 110-MMcfd natural gas processing plant and high-pressure gathering system in Weld County, Colo., the company announced today. Start up for the $270 million projects targets mid-2013.

Nuevo Midstream LLC, Houston, will recommission its refrigerated Joule-Thomson processing and fractionator near Orla, Tex., in far West Texas.

Kuwait has named Mohammad Al-Busairi, former communications minister, as the country’s oil minister. Al-Busairi succeeds Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, a member of the country’s ruling family.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Petrohawk Energy Corp.’s 50% interest in KinderHawk Field Services in the Haynesville shale and a 25% interest in Petrohawk’s natural gas gathering and treating business in the Eagle Ford shale. KMP also will build a 300,000-b/d crude-condensate pipeline to move Petrohawk Eagle Ford production to the Houston Ship Channel.