Capability

Honeywell UOP LLC process technology unit and engineering/contractor Black & Veatch (BV) formed an alliance Tuesday to develop liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities for supplying the rail, vehicle and marine transportation sectors.

Enterprise Products Partners LP is developing two refined products export facilities on the U.S. Gulf Coast to meet demand for additional refined products export capability with production from shale plays backing up the supply.

The railroad transportation of Bakken oil supplies continues to grow, and transporters are investing in new facilities on a pace with pipeline takeaway growth, according to the latest statistics from the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and the state pipeline authority.

Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) and Harvest Pipeline Co. have tentatively agreed to develop the capability to ship Utica Shale production from eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania by barge on the Ohio River.

The buildout of infrastructure to serve growing liquids-rich natural gas production from shale plays is continuing. Driven by natural gas liquids (NGL) production out of the Rockies and the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas, Enterprise Products Partners LP plans to construct two more NGL fractionators at its Mont Belvieu, TX, facility. These would provide 150,000 b/d of incremental capacity. Pipeline construction also is under way.

Exploration in North America’s onshore remains in its earliest stages because producers are eyeing “tens of thousands” of locations for future drilling, Baker Hughes Inc. CEO Martin Craighead said Tuesday.

Cheniere Energy Inc., which has been developing domestic gas liquefaction and export capability on the Gulf Coast in Louisiana, said Friday it is seeking to do the same in Corpus Christi, TX, with a facility that would be primarily supplied with gas from the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.

Companies drilling in the Canadian Arctic Offshore must abide by the country’s policy requiring capability to stop a spill quickly by drilling a relief well in the same season that a blowout occurs, or demonstrate how they would meet or exceed the intended outcome of that policy, according to filing requirements issued Thursday by the National Energy Board (NEB).

Companies drilling in the Canadian Arctic Offshore must abide by the country’s policy requiring capability to stop a spill quickly by drilling a relief well in the same season that a blowout occurs, or demonstrate how they would meet or exceed the intended outcome of that policy, according to filing requirements issued Thursday by the National Energy Board (NEB).