The natural gas infrastructure and market dynamics are likely to be altered significantly, operators said Tuesday in Chicago, if the on-going series of east-to-west projects continue to be built from the Marcellus and Utica shales to send new supplies to the Midwest, Canada and Gulf Coast markets.
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GE Oil & Gas Bolting on Horsepower with Cameron Deal
GE Oil & Gas is buying Cameron’s reciprocating compression business for $550 million in a deal intended to leverage the expansion of shale gas development worldwide.
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Ben van Beurden, 55, who was appointed downstream director and a member of the executive committee for Royal Dutch Shell plc in January, was named to succeed Peter Voser as CEO on Jan. 1 (see NGI, May 6). Van Beurden has been responsible for refining and marketing businesses, as well as overseeing the trading companies. He also is responsible for the petrochemicals manufacturing and marketing business, which has been eyeing expansions in the United States because of increased natural gas activity, as well as the gas-to-liquids business. He joined Shell in 1983 and has worked in Houston, the Netherlands, Africa, Malaysia and most recently, the UK. He is credited with helping to turn the petrochemicals operations to profitability after several quarters of big losses. The Dutch national earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
Ohio Water District Sells More Water to Gulfport, Enacts New Policy
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) has agreed to sell more water to Gulfport Energy Corp. for Utica Shale drilling activities, as it adopts a new short-term water sales policy and partners with the U.S. Geological Survey to study the impact of future water withdrawals.
Let’s Make a (Shale) Deal! U.S. Onshore Still Opening Doors, Says PwC
Strategic investors and foreign buyers continue to press for deals in U.S. unconventional fields, but higher prices have pushed private equity (PE) momentarily to the sidelines, according to PwC US.
Phillips 66 Moves to Leverage North American Shale Oil
Midstream and downstream energy giant Phillips 66 is positioning itself to take full advantage of the ongoing North American shale oil boom by inking a number of deals to increase supplies of cost-advantaged North American crude oil to its U.S. refineries.
Marcellus NGL Pipeline Would Convert Portion of Texas Gas
Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP are partnering on a pipeline project to carry mixed (y-grade) natural gas liquids (NGL) from the Marcellus and Utica shales to the U.S. Gulf Coast as well as the petrochemical market in the Northeast.
Global Competition Seen Upended by U.S. Unconventionals
The impact of unconventional domestic shale gas and tight oil reserves is impacting domestic manufacturing and has upended global competitiveness, according to IHS Inc.
Pennsylvania, Chief Investigate Acid Spill in Bradford County
An estimated 4,700 gallons of hydrochloric acid (HCL) that were spilled on Wednesday at a Chief Oil & Gas LLC drilling operation in Leroy Township in Bradford County, PA, had been remediated almost entirely by Thursday, officials said.
Gulf Coast Propane Unit to Capitalize on Shale NGLs
Enterprise Products Partners LP plans to build one of the world’s largest propane dehydrogenation (PDH) units on the Texas Gulf Coast to take advantage of abundant supplies of propane thrown off by shale gas plays and to address periodic shortages of propylene in the region.