Cornerstone

Condensate is flowing on MPLX LP’s Cornerstone Pipeline system, which is designed to move liquids from processing facilities in Harrison County, OH, to Marathon Petroleum Corp.’s (MPC) refinery in Canton, OH.

An engineer with Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) said that despite ongoing low commodity prices, the company is committed to building a pipeline system to transport natural gas liquids (NGL) from wells targeting the Utica Shale to its refinery in Canton, OH.

MPLX, the master limited partnership formed by Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) last year to operate and acquire midstream assets, has plans for a new 49-mile pipeline that will carry crude oil, condensates and natural gas from the Utica Shale in Southeast Ohio to MPC’s refinery in Canton, OH.

A cornerstone of the much-promoted plan by oil and gas billionaire T. Boone Pickens to relieve American dependence on foreign oil and combat climate change calls for natural gas to be widely used as a transportation fuel, particularly by the long-haul trucking industry. However, cost, infrastructure and logistics challenges make such a goal highly problematic, according to trade group American Trucking Associations (ATA).

A cornerstone of the much-promoted plan by oil and gas billionaire T. Boone Pickens to relieve American dependence on foreign oil and combat climate change calls for natural gas to be widely used as a transportation fuel, particularly by the long-haul trucking industry. However, cost, infrastructure and logistics challenges make such a goal highly problematic, according to trade group American Trucking Associations (ATA).

For the second time in three months Alberta has sent a message that fear will not be allowed to crumble a cornerstone of its natural gas supplies: “sour” reserves laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.

For the second time in three months Alberta has sent a message that fear will not be allowed to crumble a cornerstone of its natural gas supplies: “sour” reserves laced with lethal hydrogen-sulphide.

William A. (Andy) Lang has joined Coast Energy Group (CEG), aSugar Land, TX division of CornerStone Propane Partners L.P., aspresident and COO. Lang most recently directed activities of MHPStorage as head of NiSource’s EnergyUSA-TPC affiliate. Prior tothat he was a managing director of Southern Co. Energy Marketingand senior vice president at Vastar Resources. Coast Energy, a fullservice energy solutions company, supplies, purchases, processesand markets over 48,000 b/d of natural gas liquids.

A principle that was the cornerstone of FERC’s landmark gasrestructuring rule, Order 636, is absent from Order 888 and is atthe root of many of the reliability problems in the bulk powermarket, say industrial power customers and a utility/marketer.