Energy Transfer

Energy Transfer LP is gauging the interest of potential customers as it weighs building a natural gas pipeline from the Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast, management said Wednesday during a fourth quarter and full-year 2021 earnings call with analysts. Citing “the growing need for additional natural gas takeaway from the Permian Basin,” co-CEO Tom…

The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s (AG) Office has filed 48 counts of environmental crimes against Energy Transfer LP for its alleged misconduct during construction of the Mariner East 2 (ME2) pipeline project.  AG Josh Shapiro said a statewide grand jury investigation determined that Energy Transfer repeatedly allowed thousands of gallons of drilling fluid to escape underground.…

The natural gas gathering Revolution Pipeline in Western Pennsylvania has been cleared to restart service after operator ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC reached a settlement with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) addressing safety concerns over slope stability. The settlement, a consent order and agreement that requires ETC to pay a $125,000 civil penalty, allows…

Oklahoma’s Enable Midstream Partners LP has seen an increase in drilling activity around its footprint as commodity prices have improved, with a “substantial” inventory of drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells sitting behind the company’s system in the Anadarko and Williston basins. “These DUCs provide an inventory of wells producers can complete without investing additional drilling…

In a setback for Energy Transfer LP’s Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), judges with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld an earlier ruling that vacated a key federal permit issued to the controversial oil conduit. The appeals court affirmed U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg’s ruling last year that the…

The first very large ethane carrier (VLEC) has been exported from Energy Transfer LP’s (ET) Nederland Terminal in East Texas loaded with more than 911,000 bbl of ethane destined for northeastern Jiangsu Province, China. Dallas-based ET said the VLEC was loaded by Orbit Gulf Coast NGL Exports LLC, its joint venture with Satellite Petrochemical USA…

Energy Transfer LP (ET) on Tuesday said a 400,000 b/d expansion of the Lone Star Express Pipeline has been completed, boosting eastbound natural gas liquids deliveries from the Permian Basin. The 352-mile, 24-inch diameter pipeline, completed ahead of schedule and on budget, originates in Winkler County, TX, and connects to the existing Lone Star Express…

An affiliate of Energy Transfer LP (ET) has agreed to pay a $30.6 million fine related to a 2018 natural gas pipeline explosion in Western Pennsylvania, and it reached a deal with regulators to lift a nearly year-old suspension of regulatory reviews for all the projects in the state.

Dallas-based Energy Transfer LP on Monday agreed to acquire Tulsa’s SemGroup Corp. in a unit-and-cash deal worth an estimated $5 billion, a deal that would expand crude and gathering systems from Western Canada to the Gulf Coast.