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The Louisiana State Legislature was considering a bill Tuesday that would criminalize certain types of protests that have become common at many oil and natural gas pipeline construction sites under which it would stiffen the penalties for damaging sites known as “critical infrastructure.”

Houston-based Ranger Energy Services LLC agreed Wednesday to acquire privately held Bayou Workover Services LLC, a combination that would expand the customer base and its offerings in the U.S. onshore workover services market.

A trio of companies has proposed to construct the Bayou Bridge pipeline to carry crude oil from the Phillips 66 and Sunoco Logistics Partners LP terminals in Nederland, TX, to Lake Charles, LA.

In an effort to expand its production of olefins, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP plans to build a massive 1-hexene plant at its Cedar Bayou Chemical Complex in Baytown, TX.

The rich are different, and the nouveau riche are different still. Newly premiered reality television show “Bayou Billionaires” demonstrates that it’s a long way from the fictitious East Egg of The Great Gatsby to Shreveport, LA, where Gerald and Kitten Dowden and kin have struck it rich in the Haynesville Shale. Now they want into the country club.

DCP Midstream is moving ahead with the Sand Hills Pipeline to carry natural gas liquids (NGL) from the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale to markets along the Gulf Coast.

Targa Resources Partners LP plans to expand the capacity of its Cedar Bayou Fractionators LP (CBF) natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation facility located in Mont Belvieu, TX, the company said Tuesday.

FERC Friday issued a favorable final environmental review of a 1.3 Bcf/d liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal proposed by Chevron Corp. subsidiary Bayou Casotte Energy LLC on a 260-acre site near Chevron’s refinery in Pascagoula, MS.

Chevron Corp. said last Thursday it has the support of the Mississippi governor for a new LNG import terminal it plans to locate in Jackson County, MS, alongside its Pascagoula refinery on the Gulf Coast. The announcement followed the revelation earlier in the week it had put its more ambitious Port Pelican offshore terminal on hold.