Enterprise Products Partners LP plans to add 4-million bbl of crude oil storage to its Enterprise Crude Oil Houston (ECHO) and Bertron sites and about 55 miles of 24-in. and 36-in. OD pipeline connecting ECHO to southeast Texas refineries.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP is expanding its Sweeny Lateral pipeline running between the Kinder Morgan Crude Condensate (KMCC) pipeline and Phillips 66’s Sweeny refinery in Brazoria County, Tex.

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.