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Sunoco Logistics Partners LP has been dealt an early setback in a bid to earn the status of a public utility corporation, which would exempt its Mariner East pipeline from local zoning ordinances.

July natural gas is expected to open a penny higher Monday morning at $4.75 as overnight prices reach $4.88 and near-term weather forecasts turn warmer. Overnight oil markets were mixed.

July natural gas is expected to open a penny higher Friday morning at $4.77 as traders see a continuing storage deficit and no reason to not keep working this market from the long side. Overnight oil markets gained.

Sunoco Logistics Partners LP said that as its former crude oil refinery in Marcus Hook, PA, along the Delaware River south of Philadelphia, transforms into a major East Coast export terminal, it could soon rival similar facilities along the Gulf Coast and provide a number of advantages to Northeast oil and gas producers.

Supertanker oil cargoes will refill vacant natural gas capacity in TransCanada Corp.’s Mainline as early as the autumn of 2017, according to a two-volume blueprint for the Energy East conversion project released Tuesday.

Consol Energy Inc. said Thursday it has struck a deal to send ethane produced in the Marcellus Shale of western Pennsylvania on Sunoco Logistics Partners LP’s Mariner East pipeline for export to European cracker complexes.

Responding to shipper interest in a natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline servicing the Marcellus and Utica shales, Sunoco Logistics Partners LP launched a binding open season for its Mariner East 2 project on Wednesday.

After more than three months of relative quiet, the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season started to make noise Tuesday with the formation of a pair of tropical storms, though neither is expected to disrupt North American energy interests.

Williams on Thursday said it has restricted some natural gas pipeline services on its mainstay Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line LLC (aka Transco) because of capacity constraints in the Pennsylvania portion of the Marcellus Shale.