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.

US tight oil producers already face challenges in economically getting their high-quality crude to refineries, and transportation logistics will need to be addressed more fully as production grows, experts at an Apr. 3 Washington conference agreed.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP will expand the 91-mile Eastern Shelf Pipeline extending to a project near its Katz field, shipping more 130 MMcfd of carbon dioxide via the pipeline starting in 2014.

Oneok Partners LP plans to build a 270-mile natural gas gathering system and related infrastructure in Divide County, ND.

Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) has let a contract to a unit of Willbros Group Inc.’s oil and gas segment for the construction of a portion of its Red River Gathering Pipeline.

The US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration proposed revisions to federal pipeline regulations aimed at strengthening states’ excavation damage prevention programs and increasing penalties for violators.

Two major milestones were met in Alaska’s efforts to bring North Slope natural gas to Alaskans and markets beyond, Gov. Sean Parnell announced.

The second line of Nord Stream AG’s trans-Baltic subsea natural gas pipeline will be complete by Apr. 25, according to Werner Rott, the company’s deputy project director engineering, speaking this week at the Euro Institute for Information and Technology Tranfer’s (EITEP) Pipeline Technology Conference in Hannover, Germany.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated GAIL (India) Ltd.’s 2,200 km Dahej-Vijaipur-Dadri-Bawana-Nangal-Bhatinda natural gas pipeline, which extends through northwestern India.

Enbridge Inc. and Enterprise Products Partners LP said they have secured capacity commitments from shippers enabling them to proceed with expansion of the Seaway Pipeline, flow of which they’re reversing to carry crude oil from Cushing, Okla., to the Texas Gulf Coast (OGJ Online, Jan. 5, 2012).

NET Midstream’s wholly owned subsidiary Eagle Ford Midstream LP will build a 105-mile, 24-30-in. OD extension of its existing natural gas pipeline. A long-term gas transportation agreement with an affiliate of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. will anchor the expansion.