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Gulf South Pipeline Co. LP is targeting growing industrial demand in the Baton Rouge-New Orleans, LA, region with a potential expansion of its system that would tap shale gas supplies from multiple basins. The project joins another targeting a similar market from rival Spectra Energy Transmission.

FERC on Friday issued a favorable environmental assessment (EA) for PetroLogistics Natural Gas Storage to expand the working gas capacity of its Choctaw Hub facility near Baton Rouge, LA, by more than 10 Bcf.

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.

Boosted by the “shale gas revolution,” Williams on Tuesday said it will spend up to $400 million to expand its Geismar olefins production facility near Baton Rouge, LA.

Goodrich Petroleum Corp. has purchased leases totaling about 74,000 net acres in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) oil trend in Louisiana and Mississippi for an average $175 per net acre, the Houston-based company said Monday.

Outgoing Chairman Pat Wood essentially passed the baton, sizzling hot from heavy use, to his successor-in-waiting, Commissioner Joseph T. Kelliher, at the close of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s open meeting Thursday.

The Shaw Group Inc., based in Baton Rouge, has signed anagreement with PG&E National Energy Group to construct 3,300 MWof new generating capacity, comprising three combined-cycle powerplants, with the first plant to be constructed in Michigan. Noexact location or financial details were disclosed.