Oneok Partners LP is holding an open season through Nov. 20 for its Bakken Crude Express Pipeline, a proposed 1,300-mile pipeline with capacity to transport 200,000 b/d of light-sweet crude oil from multiple points in the Williston Basin’s Bakken Shale in North Dakota and Montana to the crude oil market hub in Cushing, OK (see Shale Daily, April 10). Construction is expected to begin in early 2014 and be completed by mid-2015. For information, visit the project website or contact Lisa Nishimuta at (918) 588-7730, lisa.nishimuta@oneok.com; or Tim King at (918) 732-1339, tim.king@oneok.com.

Houston-based Memorial Production Partners LP agreed to acquire East Texas oil and gas properties in the South Henderson field of Rusk County from Goodrich Petroleum Corp. for $95 million. It is the fourth transaction since Memorial’s initial public offering. The properties have estimated net proved reserves of 139 Bcfe, 22% proved developed. Current net production is 12.6 MMcfe/d, about 62% natural gas and 38% oil and natural gas liquids. There are 42 producing wells (40 net). Memorial’s average working interest will be 96% with about 95% operated by the company. The deal includes 8,450 gross acres (7,120 net), all of which is held by production. There are 25 gross (19 net) proved undeveloped horizontal drilling locations in the Cotton Valley formation, Memorial said. Closing is expected by the end of September with an effective date of July 1, 2012. Financing is under Memorial’s existing credit facility.

Following up on its successful “Ask About Shale” initiative, the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) has launched “Learn About Shale,” an online “community conversation” designed to answer questions submitted by the public about natural gas, shale and hydraulic fracturing. In addition to answering more than 600 questions that were generated by the Ask About Shale initiative, Learn About Shale allows the public to submit additional questions. The questions will be answered at LearnAboutShale.org “straightforwardly, leveraging subject matter expertise from industry representatives, academic researchers and other key stakeholders,” MSC said. The effort was unveiled Friday at MSC’s Shale Gas Insight conference in Philadelphia.