Penn Virginia Resource Partners will begin building natural gas pipeline extensions in the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania, providing an outlet for producers to link to El Paso Corp.'s Tennessee Gas Pipeline and Williams Cos.’ Transcontinental pipeline for shipment to markets in the US Northeast.

Kinder Morgan Pony Express Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC, and Belle Fourche Pipeline Co. have launched an open season to solicit shipper interest for crude oil transportation service on the Pony Express pipeline from a point near Baker, Mont., to Ponca City and Cushing, Okla.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP said it plans to spend $380 million for pipeline projects and midstream services in the Marcellus shale by 2018.

SemGroup Corp. plans to build an oil gathering system in the Denver-Julesburg basin in Colorado. The 37-mile, 12-in. OD Wattenberg Oil Trunkline, will transport oil within the DJ basin.

Operations have begun to install a pipeline that will enable a large increase in production from Marathon gas-condensate field in Atchafalaya Bay off Louisiana, said Petsec Energy Ltd., Sydney.

Enbridge Energy Partners LP will expand its crude oil mainline pipeline system to increase deliveries to markets in the Upper Midwest, eastern Canada and—through connecting Enbridge pipelines—the US Gulf Coast.

TransCanada Corp. received binding long-term commitments in excess of 500,000 b/d during the open season for its Keystone Hardisty terminal project (OGJ Online, Mar. 1, 2012), allowing it to expand the proposed 2 million bbl of oil batch accumulation tankage and pipeline infrastructure to 2.6 million bbl.

The Hispanic Leadership Fund, an organization that advocates limited government and free markets, joined US oil and gas industry leaders in urging US President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project.

Crosstex Energy LP is increasing capacity to transload crude oil from rail cars to both barges and pipelines at its Riverside fractionation facility in southern Louisiana to roughly 14,500 b/d from about 4,500 b/d.

The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an advisory bulletin to pipeline owners and operators to verify records relating to their pipelines’ maximum operating and allowable operating pressures.

TransCanada Corp. has submitted a new Presidential Permit application to the US Department of State for its Keystone XL Pipeline from the US-Canada border in Montana to Steele City, Neb. TransCanada will supplement that application with an alternative route in Nebraska as soon as that route is selected.

Wholly owned Lukoil subsidiary OOO Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft let a contract to Saipem SPA for the construction of subsea pipelines to transport oil and gas from northern Caspian fields.

TransCanada Alaska (TCA), the state’s licensee to build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope, received state clearance on May 2 to change the project’s focus to a large-diameter pipeline to an Alaska tidewater site for in-state use and for liquefaction and export.

Discovery Producer Services LLC (DPS) let a contract to Tata Steel for the provision of pipe for DPS’s Keathley Canyon Connector natural gas pipeline in Keathley Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico.