An unprecedented habitat conservation collaboration led the US Fish and Wildlife Service to not list the greater sage grouse as a threatened or endangered species. Listing the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act would have triggered restrictions having significant adverse impacts on oil and gas operations. Source: News
Turkmenistan to expand gas processing, petchem production
Turkmenistan is planning to build a series of plants designed to expand natural gas processing and petrochemical production in a move to diversify and increase the country’s share of exports to global markets. Source: News
BOEM moves forward in review of Hilcorp’s Liberty prospect
Hilcorp Alaska LLC has officially submitted its development and production plan (DPP) for the Liberty prospect to the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Source: News
Enterprise brings Rancho II crude oil pipeline into service
Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP), Houston, reported its 88-mile, 36-in. Rancho II crude oil pipeline is now online and able to transport supplies between Sealy, Tex., and the company’s Enterprise Crude Houston (Echo) storage terminal in southeast Houston. Source: News
MARKET WATCH: NYMEX oil price rebounds on signs of supply adjustments
Oil prices rebound $2/bbl on the New York market Sept. 21 on signs that the growth of US oil production might be slowing, but commodity prices resumed their zigzag pattern again in early trading on Sept. 22, giving up some of the previous day’s gains. Source: News
Atlantic Coast Pipeline applies for FERC permission to build
Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC applied to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for permission to build its 564-mile interstate natural gas transmission pipeline. The pipeline—owned by Dominion 45%, Duke Energy 40%, Piedmont Natural Gas 10%, and AGL Resources 5%—will transport as much as 1.5 bcfd southeast from Harrison County, W.Va., to Chesapeake, Va., and Robeson […]
Partnerships are essential for success, new PHMSA administrator says
Partnerships with pipeline owner-operators, state and local governments, and Congress will be critical as the US Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) strives to be a more effective regulator amid rapid change, its new administrator told a US Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation subcommittee on Sept. 18. Source: News
Second fire within a month hits Pemex’s Tula refinery
Mexico’s Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has extinguished the second fire within a 2-week period at its 315,000-b/d Miguel Hidalgo refinery in Tula, Hidalgo state. Source: News
Hovensa enters deal for sale of St. Croix refining assets, files for bankruptcy
Hovensa LLC, the joint venture of Hess Corp. and Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), has entered a deal to sell terminal assets connected to its idled 500,000-b/d refinery on the island of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. Source: News
Statoil Brazil lets contract for Peregrino development
Statoil Brazil, on behalf of its partners in the Peregrino field license, has let a contract to Wood Group to provide 4-year operations and maintenance for the Alpha and Bravo wellhead platforms as well as modification services for both units and the Peregrino floating production, storage, and offloading vessel. Source: News