Gathering

Swift approval is being sought for an application by TransCanada Corp. to transfer jurisdiction over Alberta’s gas-gathering pipeline web to the National Energy Board (NEB) before the province has time to change its mind about allowing the historic switch without putting up a fight.

Swift approval is being sought for an application by TransCanada Corp. to transfer jurisdiction over Alberta’s gas-gathering pipeline web to the National Energy Board (NEB) before the province has time to change its mind about allowing the historic switch without putting up a fight.

Quest Resource Corp., which until now has concentrated its exploration efforts in the Cherokee Basin of Kansas and Oklahoma, made good on its plan to expand into the Marcellus Shale in an agreement to purchase privately held PetroEdge Resources LLC for $140 million.

The South Peace Pipeline Project, a proposed 57-mile extension of Westcoast Energy Inc.’s existing raw gas gathering system near Fort St. John, BC, will be the subject of an oral hearing on Aug. 26, Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) said Wednesday.

Eagle Rock Energy Partners LP subsidiary, HESCO Gathering Co., experienced an explosion and limited fire on its Phase “I” 20-inch diameter pipeline located in a rural area of Hidalgo County, TX.

Eagle Rock Energy Partners LP subsidiary, HESCO Gathering Co., experienced an explosion and limited fire on its Phase “I” 20-inch diameter pipeline located in a rural area of Hidalgo County, TX, Friday morning.

Calling current times “very exciting but challenging” for the energy sector, FERC Commissioner Philip Moeller told an industry gathering in Seattle Monday that he thinks the California Independent System Operator’s (CAISO) long-anticipated Market Redesign Technology Update (MRTU) is going to come to fruition later this year, noting the usual qualifier that he was offering his personal opinion and not that of the federal commission. Moeller was a keynote speaker at the Law Seminars International conference, “Buying and Selling Electric Power in the West.”

Williams has sold its interests in the Wamsutter LLC system to its midstream partnership Williams Partners LP for $750 million, the company said Friday.

Seminole Energy Services LLC has begun talks with producers about whether to develop new gathering, treatment and processing facilities in the Big Sandy region, which contains one of the largest gas fields in the Appalachian Basin.