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After hinting for months that going big was the only way to accommodate excess ethane supplies in the Marcellus Shale, Williams on Tuesday proposed to build a large-scale natural gas processing and ethane project that would traverse the rich gas/dry gas divide in Pennsylvania.

FERC has approved Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s proposed changes to its pooling points to accommodate greater natural gas supplies coming from the Marcellus and Haynesville shale formations and the Rocky Mountain region.

FERC has approved Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s proposed changes to its pooling points to accommodate greater natural gas supplies coming from the Marcellus and Haynesville shale formations and the Rocky Mountain region.

FERC has approved Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s proposed changes to its pooling points to accommodate greater natural gas supplies coming from the Marcellus and Haynesville shale formations and the Rocky Mountain region.

Copano Energy LLC plans to expand the processing capacity of its Houston Central plant in Colorado County, TX, to accommodate increased demand from producers in the Eagle Ford Shale. Houston-based Copano plans to build a 400,000 Mcf/d cryogenic processing plant, bringing the facility’s total processing capacity to 1.1 Bcf/d. The new plant is estimated to cost $145 million and could be in service by early 2013. Copano, a midstream natural gas company with operations in four states, owns assets including nine processing plants with more than 1 Bcf/d of combined processing capacity and 22,000 b/d of fractionation capacity.

Falling in line with the recent trend of producers targeting more liquid shale plays due to the better economics, Hess Corp. announced it is paying $1.05 billion in cash to acquire 167,000 net acres in the Bakken Shale of North Dakota from TRZ Energy LLC.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Tuesday approved Dominion Transmission Inc.’s (DTI) request to begin service on new facilities that will accommodate capacity from Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (REX).

ONEOK Partners LP plans to invest $300-355 million in natural gas-related projects in the Bakken Shale through 2012 to accommodate growing production, the Tulsa-based partnership said Monday.

FERC Wednesday approved CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission Co.’s request to place into service a further expansion of its Carthage-to-Perryville pipeline to accommodate the need for additional takeaway capacity from the Haynesville shale play in northwest Louisiana and East Texas.