Casper

Tallgrass Energy Partners LP has closed on a previously announced deal to buy Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission, Trailblazer Pipeline Co., Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP’s (KMP) Casper-Douglas natural gas processing and West Frenchie Draw treating facilities in Wyoming, and KMP’s 50% interest in the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX), Tallgrass said Tuesday.

Kinder Morgan Upstream LLC has agreed to pay $316,000 in penalties for allegedly violating the risk management plan requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) at its natural gas plants in Casper and Douglas, WY, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Thursday.

Armada Oil Inc. has signed a geophysical data acquisition agreement with Geokinetics USA Inc. to conduct seismic testing on land in the Niobrara and Casper formations in southern Wyoming, the Houston-based independent oil and gas company said.

In a plan that sounds similar to the shelved Picacho Pipeline proposal, Casper, WY-based Western Energy LLC said it plans to construct a $2.6 billion, 1 Bcf/d natural gas pipeline that would run from the Waha Hub in West Texas through New Mexico and Arizona, ending at the Colorado River.

In a plan that sounds similar to the shelved Picacho Pipeline proposal, Casper, WY-based Western Energy LLC said this week it plans to construct a $2.6 billion, 1 Bcf/d natural gas pipeline that would run from the Waha Hub in West Texas through New Mexico and Arizona and ending at the Colorado River.