China National Petroleum Corp. finished construction of its Yining-Horgos natural gas pipeline, designed to move coal-based synthetic natural gas (SNG) from Yining, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to Zhejiang.

Rosneft and Transneft agreed to jointly build a branch off the Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean (ESPO) crude oil pipeline linking it to Rosneft’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur refinery. The branch will have a capacity of 8 million tonnes/year.

Sunoco Logistics Partners LP received enough binding commitments from shippers during the open season for Sunoco Pipeline LP and Inland Corp.’s Allegheny Access pipeline project to advance the project.

Dominion Transmission placed its 484-MMcfd Appalachian Gateway Project into service, transporting natural gas produced in West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania to storage fields and pipelines in Pennsylvania.

TransCanada Corp. filed a supplemental environmental report (SER) with Nebraska’s Department of Environmental Quality that contains a preferred alternative route for the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline across the state.

Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP) has started a binding open commitment period to determine additional shipper demand for capacity on its Appalachia-to-Texas (ATEX Express) pipeline.

Preventing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline would not keep Alberta oil sands activity from growing, the president of the Canadian Energy Research Institute said. “There could be 50,000-200,000 b/d of rail capacity for bitumen if the pipeline isn’t built. That would slow down, but not stop, production,” Peter Howard indicated.

OAO Gazprom and Bulgarian Energy Holding EAD signed a protocol defining the South Stream natural gas pipeline’s entry point into the Bulgarian gas transmission system, its parameters, and further development of the project.

Nord Stream AG welded the final joint on the second string of its trans-Baltic natural gas pipeline in Portovaya Bay near Vyborg, Russia, connecting its onshore and offshore sections.

Industry had shut in most of the US Gulf of Mexico offshore crude production before Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Plaquemines Parish, La., Aug. 29 as a slow-moving Category 1 hurricane.

CJSC Rospan International, a TNK-BP Group company, plans to announce a tender to build a 374-km crude oil pipeline between fields in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region and northern Krasnoyarsk Kray.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMEP) has begun building its 136-mile, 16-in. OD Parkway Pipeline.

The Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission has issued final approvals for Miller Energy Resources Inc., Knoxville, Tenn., to operate on the Osprey platform in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, where it will rework five formerly producing oil wells.

The US Bureau of Land Management has released an environmental assessment of Bakkenlink Production LLC’s proposed crude oil pipeline across North Dakota and will accept public comments on it through Sept. 15, the agency’s Dickinson, ND, field office said.