NET Midstream’s wholly owned subsidiary Eagle Ford Midstream LP (EFM) has secured firm transportation agreements from Eagle Ford shale producers including Talisman Energy USA and Statoil Natural Gas LLC.

TransCanada Corp. has reached binding long-term shipping agreements to build, own, and operate the proposed Alberta-based Heartland Pipeline and TC Terminals projects.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd. has made an agreement with Royal Dutch Shell PLC to investigate the possibility of using Shell’s floating LNG (FLNG) technology for the Browse LNG project offshore Western Australia.

Although a price squeeze on Canadian producers of bitumen and heavy oil has eased recently, pipeline access to waterborne trade remains essential, according to an analyst at Scotiabank, Toronto.

TransCanada Corp. is pushing back the in-service date for its Keystone XL pipeline from late-2014 or early-2015 to second-half 2015.

The Alaska Legislature this session appropriated more than $440 million state natural gas transportation projects.

Fluxys LNG NV/SA has awarded a turnkey project for expanding the LNG terminal in the Zeebrugge Port to TS LNG, a joint venture between Sener and Techint E&C.

Defeating the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project would not keep Canada from producing crude oil from its oil sands, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said during a visit to Washington.

The US Environmental Protection Agency urged the US Department of State to look closely at alternative routes, including one that would closely parallel the existing Keystone crude oil pipeline, before finalizing its draft supplemental environmental impact statement for the proposed Keystone XL project.

Excelerate Energy, Houston, and Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority have filed a preliminary application with the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to install and operate floating offshore LNG regasification off the southern coast of Puerto Rico.