Energy Transfer

Two Lower 48 midstream heavyweights are set to join forces in a $7.1 billion, all-equity merger between Energy Transfer LP and Crestwood Equity Partners LP. The transaction, expected to close in the fourth quarter, would see Energy Transfer acquire Crestwood’s multi-basin natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGL) and crude oil infrastructure portfolio, and assume $3.3…

A roundup of news and commentary from NGI’s LNG Insight Energy Transfer LP is looking to select an engineering, procurement and construction contractor by the end of June for its Trunkline Pipeline system project intended to feed Lake Charles LNG, the company reported in a recent filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The project…

Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Twitter Wednesday that Mexico Pacific Ltd. LLC (MPL) would build its 14.1 million metric tons/year Saguaro Energía LNG project on the country’s west coast and spend $14 billion on the project. 

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has denied an Energy Transfer LP affiliate’s request to again extend the deadline for starting exports from its proposed Lake Charles LNG facility in Louisiana.  In an order denying the application for an “unprecedented second extension,” DOE said Friday that the project had failed to show good cause for…

Energy Transfer LP is adding 3,000 miles of crude gathering and transportation traversing the Permian Basin to Oklahoma in a $1.45 billion deal for Lotus Midstream Operations LLC. The transaction with an affiliate of EnCap Flatrock Midstream (EFM), set to be completed by mid-year, would include a $900 million cash payment and 44.5 million new…

Energy Transfer LP management said it is “disappointed” in the pace of contracting activity for its Lake Charles LNG project. Slow progress signing up project offtakers has delayed a final investment decision, Co-CEO Marshall McCrea said Thursday during a call to discuss 2022 earnings results.  The company has signed agreements to supply 8 million metric…

TotalEnergies SE is withdrawing its representatives on PAO Novatek’s board and said it would stop accounting for its 19.4% stake in the company.

Shell plc has increased its portfolio of U.S. LNG and helped progress a developing Gulf Coast export project it once held a half-stake in with a long-term agreement with Energy Transfer LP (ET). ET signed a 20-year sales and purchase agreement (SPA) with Shell for 2.1 million metric tons/year from the proposed Lake Charles LNG…

Energy Transfer LP (ET) affiliates have reached a plea deal and accepted criminal charges related to the Mariner East 2 (ME2) and Revolution pipeline projects in Pennsylvania, resolving cases brought by state Attorney General (AG) Josh Shapiro since last year. ET affiliates pleaded no contest to 23 counts against both pipelines without admitting guilt. Another…