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.

Enbridge Inc. expects to complete reversal of its Line 9A crude oil pipeline between Sarnia and North Westover, Ont., this year, said Tom Hodge, project director, expansion and replacement project, at the API Pipeline Conference in San Diego.

Calls for the Obama administration to authorize construction of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline’s final segment increased as the US Department of State began hearings on the project in Grand Island, Neb., on Apr. 18.

Atlas Pipeline Partners LP has agreed to buy Eagle Ford shale natural gas gathering and processing company Teak Midstream LLC.

Rosneft and Marubeni Corp. signed a memorandum of cooperation covering possible joint oil and exploration and development as well as associated LNG project implement, the companies reported.

The US Department of Energy’s Fossil Energy Office and Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources agreed to work together along with potential investors to study unconventional energy resources in Alaska’s Arctic.

A second US House subcommittee heard testimony in support of a bill to let Congress approve the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project as the first, which held a hearing on Rep. Lee Terry’s (R-Neb.) measure on Apr. 10, marked up HR 3 for consideration by the full Energy and Commerce Committee.

Calls for more and better cooperation between global LNG suppliers and market countries pervaded opening remarks from some of the world’s leading players at the first day of the 17^th International Conference & Exhibition of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG17), Houston. The 4-day event convenes every 3 years.

Plains All American Pipeline LP is building the Cactus Pipeline, a 310-mile, 20-in. OD crude oil pipeline in Texas from McCamey in Upton County to Gardendale in LaSalle County.