Gathering

Energy Transfer Partners LP said Monday that it would invest $1.5 billion for a new pipeline system and associated processing facilities in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale.

Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) LP said Monday that it would invest $1.5 billion for a new pipeline system and associated processing facilities in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale.

Substantial amounts of crude oil in North Dakota's Bakken Shale are looking for ways to get to market, even with today's depressed oil prices…

Substantial amounts of crude oil in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale are looking for ways to get to market, even with today’s depressed oil prices, Tesoro Logistics LP (TLLP) President Phil Anderson said last Friday during a quarterly earnings conference call.

Azure Midstream Energy LLC and Marlin Midstream Partners LP have agreed to transactions that would create one of the largest gathering and processing systems in the Haynesville Shale and horizontal Cotton Valley plays in East Texas and northern Louisiana.

Adding to a string of acquisitions over the past year, Denver-based American Midstream Partners LP on Tuesday completed a $470 million deal to acquire Dallas-based Costar Midstream LLC, boosting its natural gas gathering abilities in the Permian Basin and in East Texas, and giving it leverage in the oil-rich Bakken Shale.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has levied a $250,000 fine against a pipeline company for more than a dozen construction violations that occurred over a seven-month period in Lycoming County, in the heart of the Marcellus Shale.

Based on a recently completed year-long study for Congress, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) plans a rulemaking on the safety of transporting shale oil and natural gas.

North Dakota officials on Tuesday issued a plea for three additional oil/natural gas inspectors to keep an eye on gathering pipeline systems that are sprouting up to support record production from the Bakken and Three Forks formations in the Williston Basin.