China Offshore Oil Engineering Co. Ltd. awarded a pipeline installation contract to Technip for the Liwan 3-1 shallow-water project in the China Sea’s Pearl River Mouth basin 300 km south of Hong Kong.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP launched a binding open season for its Cochin Reversal Project to move light condensate from Kankakee County, Ill., to existing terminal facilities near Fort Saskatchewan, Alta.

Enbridge Pipelines (Athabasca) Inc. applied with Canada’s Energy Resources Conservation Board for licenses to build a crude oil pipeline with two pump stations from Kirby Lake Terminal south to Battle River Terminal, in the Hardisty, Alta., crude hub.

Williams Partners LP’s discussions with potential shippers and other market inquiries regarding the Atlantic Access expansion of its Transco interstate natural gas pipeline have prompted it to increase the project’s capacity to 2.3 bcfd from 1.8 bcfd.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP will proceed with plans to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline system, which extends from Edmonton to Canada’s west coast, following receipt of 660,000 b/d of binding 20-year commercial commitments from existing and new shippers during a recently concluded open season.

Enterprise Products Partners LP, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., and DCP Midstream LLC plan to build a natural gas liquids pipeline from the Denver-Julesburg basin in Weld County, Colo., to Skellytown, Tex., roughly 435 miles.

Sunoco Pipeline LP, West Texas Gulf Pipe Line Co., and Mobil Pipe Line Co. have begun a binding open season for their West Texas-Nederland Access project to deliver crude oil from West Texas to Sunoco Logistics Partners LP’s Nederland Terminal at Nederland, Tex.

Nebraska’s legislature passed legislation on Apr. 11 allowing the state’s Department of Environmental Quality to study a new proposed route for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline.

DNO International ASA, Oslo, has drilled the West Bukha-5 development well on Block 8 offshore Oman to 200 m above the top of the target Lower Cretaceous Thamama reservoir.

The US Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on a revised natural gas pipeline proposal south of Rifle, Colo.

Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Chief Gathering LLC for $1 billion.

Oneok Partners LP plans to invest $1.5-1.8 billion between now and 2015 to build a 1,300-mile, 200,000 b/d crude oil pipeline—the Bakken Crude Express Pipeline—between the Bakken shale and Cushing, Okla.

NiSource Gas Transmission & Storage's Midstream Services confirmed ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. as the anchor producer of its Western Pennsylvania natural gas pipeline project, Big Pine Gathering System.

Williams Partners LP has started a binding open season for an expansion of its Transco interstate pipeline to provide incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to markets in southern Virginia and northern North Carolina by September 2015.