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The Gulf Coast Express Pipeline Project (GCX), designed to carry 1.92 Bcf/d from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast, on Thursday added Targa Resources Corp. as a third partner.

The green light has been flashed for construction to start on schedule in September at an environmental sore spot in Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.’s growth-enabling pipeline project for oilsands production and industrial natural gas consumption.

Kinder Morgan Canada is refusing to be rattled by political protest in British Columbia (BC) and is maintaining a mid-September date for starting construction of its growth-enabling pipeline project for the country’s top industrial natural gas consumer, the Alberta oilsands.

Investors made a C$1.75 billion ($1.3 billion) bet that political protest against Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Western Canadian pipeline project would turn out to be bluster rather than power.

DCP Midstream LP has agreed to participate in developing Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline LLC’s (KMTP) proposed Gulf Coast Express Pipeline Project, the companies said Tuesday.

On March 27, four days after Cenagas announced the results of its first open season for one-year contracts on Mexico’s National Integrated Natural Gas Transportation System (Sistrangas), it called for a second round of bidding to make adjustments for three oversubscribed routes.

Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) is holding a nonbinding open season through March 10 for firm natural gas transportation service on its Kinder Morgan Border Pipeline LLC (KM Border) and Kinder Morgan Tejas Pipeline LLC (KM Tejas) to serve the growing demand for natural gas supplies in Mexico.

Kinder Morgan Inc.’s (KMI) Southern LNG Co. LLC has been granted non-free trade agreement (FTA) export authority for its Elba Island LNG terminal near Savannah, GA, to export up to 130 Bcf/year of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Four companies — Kinder Morgan Inc., National Grid, Southern Company Gas and Southwestern Energy Co. — have joined a voluntary Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, the agency said last week.