Oil India Ltd. (OIL) has let an engineering, procurement, and construction management contract to Engineers India Ltd. to upgrade its 1,157-km Naharkatiya-Barauni crude oil pipeline.

Enbridge Inc. and Energy Transfer will jointly develop a project to move 420,000-660,000 b/d of crude oil by pipeline from Patoka, Ill., to St. James, La., and the eastern Gulf Coast refining market by converting certain segments of Trunkline Gas Co. LLC’s system to liquids service.

Canadians are ready to defend the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project on a greenhouse gas reduction basis now that opponents have shifted their arguments to that arena, a TransCanada Corp. executive said.

The four companies planning to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope to a port on the state’s southern coast for liquefaction and export have met a critical deadline, Gov. Sean Parnell (R) announced on Feb. 15.

MarkWest Utica EMG LLC, a joint venture of MarkWest Energy Partners LP and Energy & Minerals Group, will provide Rex Energy Corp. with natural gas gathering, processing, fractionation, and marketing services in the Utica shale.

A strong majority of US voters favors building the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, a survey commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute found.

CHS Inc. subsidiary Front Range Pipeline LLC will build a 7-mile connection in central Montana to link its Front Range crude oil pipeline with the Kinder Morgan Express Pipeline.

ExxonMobil Corp. and Rosneft of Russia have agreed to expand a 2011 strategic cooperation agreement to include far more Russian Arctic exploratory acreage, possible Rosneft participation in ExxonMobil’s Point Thomson gas-condensate field in Alaska, and a potential Russian Arctic LNG project.

Statoil and its partners have chosen a development concept for Skrugard field in the Barents Sea, featuring a floating production unit and a 280-km crude oil export pipeline. The companies will build an onshore oil terminal in Veidnes, Norway.

BP PLC signed a 20-year liquefaction tolling agreement with Freeport LNG Expansion LP covering 4.4 million tonnes/year, which would be the production capacity of a second train at Freeport LNG’s proposed liquefaction and LNG terminal at Quintana near Freeport, Tex.