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Buckeye Partners LP is planning a binding open season for a new crude oil pipeline from the Permian Basin to Corpus Christi, TX, that would meet growing demand for crude takeaway capacity from the booming region.

Following months of debate, leaders of a rural Coastal Bend community near Corpus Christi, TX, are making it clear they would welcome the world’s largest ethane steam cracker, a $9 billion-plus project proposed by ExxonMobil Corp. and Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC).

The Railroad Commission of Texas(RRC) will host an Oil and Gas Regulatory Seminar in Corpus Christi, TX, on Tuesday, Aug. 16. Topics to be covered include drilling permits; completions; inactive well requirements; oil, gas or geothermal resource operations in hydrogen sulfide areas; production reporting; pipeline accident/incident reporting; pipeline permitting; surface casing exceptions; and website queries for proration. Early bird registration costs $150 per person through Aug. 5. Late registration is $200 per person beginning Aug. 6. The event will be at the Omni Corpus Christi Hotel, where group rates are available. For more information, visit the commissionwebsite.

A just-announced liquefied natural gas (LNG) swap deal between France’s Total and Indonesia national oil company Pertamina shows LNG deals can still get done in a depressed market, analysts said.

ConocoPhillips on Thursday (Dec. 31) expected to finish loading what it believes is the first domestic cargo of crude oil to be exported since the lifting of the 40-year ban on such exports on Dec. 18.

Cheniere Marketing International LLP has inked another liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal with Electricite de France SA (EDF) that is pegged to the Dutch Title Transfer index, a leading natural gas pricing index for continental Europe.

Natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales would have expanded access to Gulf Coast liquefaction and export thanks to a new agreement between Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC (NGPL) and Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC.

Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC (CCL) may export up to 514 Bcf/year of liquefied domestic natural gas from trains four and five of its terminal, which is under construction in San Patricio and Nueces counties, TX, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) said Thursday.

Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Corpus Christi Liquefaction LLC has made a liquefied natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with EDP Energias de Portugal S.A. (EDP).