Hunt

The largest supercomputing complex for commercial research in the world, designed to provide a technological cutting edge in the global hunt for oil and natural gas, is under construction in Houston and will open by the middle of next year, officials with BP plc said Thursday.

Enbridge Inc. unit Enbridge Rail (Philadelphia) LLC and Canopy Prospecting Inc. have formed the Eddystone Rail Co. to develop a unit-train facility and related pipeline infrastructure near Philadelphia, PA, to deliver Bakken and other light sweet crude oil to Philadelphia area refineries.

Santos turned on Australia’s first commercial shale gas production last Friday at the company’s Moomba-191 well in the Cooper Basin.

The first four in a series of 10 short films on energy from the director and producer of “Haynesville: A Nation’s Hunt for an Energy Future” (see Shale Daily, Nov. 23, 2010) debuted at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado this week.

Riverstone Holdings LLC, the private equity firm with its hand in several North American energy enterprises, is said to be in the hunt for BP plc’s natural gas liquids (NGL) business in Canada.

Riverstone Holdings LLC, the private equity firm with its hand in several North American energy enterprises, is said to be in the hunt for BP plc’s natural gas liquids (NGL) business in Canada.

The documentary “Haynesville: A Nation’s hunt for an Energy Future” is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. EST Tuesday on the CNBC network.

Seneca Resources Corp., a subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Co., is in the hunt to secure more joint venture (JV) partners to help develop the company’s Marcellus Shale portfolio, company officials said Wednesday.

The hunt is on for shale gas in Europe and it’s likely to be successful with a “substantial impact on global gas markets,” according to a recent analyst’s report. That impact could come as early as 2015.