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The apparatus collecting oil and natural gas spewing from BP plc’s blown Macondo well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) prevented 11,100 bbl of oil from flowing into the GOM on Sunday, according to press reports.

The weekend brought news of some success in BP plc’s efforts to control the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) from a well blowout that occurred nearly a month ago.

The best hope for capturing oil flowing from a ruptured well 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) until a permanent fix is found was hanging about 200 feet above the sea floor Friday afternoon.

The best hope for capturing oil flowing from a ruptured well 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) until a permanent fix is found was hanging about 200 feet above the sea floor Friday afternoon.

A new target of 2018 — four years later than the previous goal — has been set as the earliest possible date for gas to start flowing out of the Canadian Arctic via the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP).

A new target of 2018 — four years later than the previous goal — has been set as the earliest possible date for gas to start flowing out of the Canadian Arctic via the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP).

A new target of 2018 — four years later than the previous goal — has been set as the earliest possible date for gas to start flowing out of the Canadian Arctic via the proposed Mackenzie Gas Project (MGP).

Texas Eastern reported an unplanned unit outage at its Five Points Compressor Station in Ohio and said it had sealed nominations flowing through Sarahsville Compressor Station as a result Thursday. “Increases in nominations for receipts sourced between Little Rock and Sarahsville for delivery downstream of Sarahsville will not be accepted” until further notice, the pipeline said.

Phase I of Iroquois Gas Transmission System LP’s 08/09 Expansion — a 1.6-mile pipeline loop in Newtown, CT — began flowing gas on Nov. 14. The three-phase 08/09 Expansion will allow Iroquois to receive an additional 200 MMcf/d at its interconnect with Algonquin Pipeline in Brookfield, CT, and deliver the volumes to National Grid’s KeySpan system at South Commack in Long Island. Iroquois will act as a middleman between Algonquin and KeySpan. Algonquin has entered into a precedent agreement with KeySpan for 175,000 Dth/d of firm service effective Nov. 1 and an additional 25,000 Dth/d commencing Nov. 1, 2009. Because pressure in the Iroquois mainline prior to the expansion was substantially higher than the pressure in the Algonquin pipeline at Brookfield, Iroquois was able to only deliver gas into, but not receive gas from, the Algonquin system. The proposed expansion will allow Iroquois to receive gas from Algonquin. Phase II of the expansion, which entails installation of two 10,300 hp compressors in Milford, CT, is under way with a targeted in-service date of Jan. 1. The third phase, installation of a second 10,300 hp compressor at Iroquois’ existing Brookfield Compressor Station in Brookfield, CT, is expected to begin by year’s end.