natural gas pipelines

Tallgrass Energy Partners is set to install dozens of turboexpander systems capable of responding to variable temperatures, pressures and flow rates across its natural gas network in partnership with Sapphire Technologies Inc. and Evolve Holdings Ltd. The trio is expected to install more than 72 of Sapphire’s FreeSpin In-line turboexpanders (FIT) across the Tallgrass natural…

Kinder Morgan Inc. is forecasting substantial growth in U.S. natural gas exports, including to Mexico via pipeline and the global market via LNG, over the coming years.  KMI expects net U.S. natural gas exports to Mexico to reach 7 Bcf/d by 2030, up from around 6 Bcf/d in 2021, according to internal and Wood Mackenzie…

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. Natural gas volumes inside a pipeline system flow from a high pressure section to a low pressure section. Processing centers and production…

Mexico’s CFE International LLC (CFEi) is suing two of its former executives in a Texas court in relation to natural gas contracts awarded to a U.S. firm. CFEi is the international fuel procurement arm of state electricity firm Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), and among the largest natural gas marketers in North America. CFEi is…

DT Midstream Inc. (DTM) has inked a deal to acquire an additional 26.25% stake in the Millennium Pipeline Co. LLC., a natural gas system, for about $552 million.  The 263-mile conduit, which entered service in 2008, delivers natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shales to utility and power plant markets across New York and…

Steel Reef Infrastructure Corp. has completed a $40 million purchase of natural gas gathering assets in North Dakota’s Burke and Mountrail counties from Summit Midstream Holdings LLC. The assets comprise 400 miles of gathering lines and six additional compressor stations adjacent to Steel Reef’s current infrastructure, the company said, adding it will pay for the…

A manufacturing defect, a degraded coating and an ineffective corrosion prevention system contributed to a fatal explosion and fire on Enbridge Inc.’s Texas Eastern Transmission (Tetco) natural gas pipeline near Danville, KY, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Wednesday. The August 2019 Tetco Line 15 rupture and subsequent fire caused one death and sent…

Antero Midstream Corp. plans to acquire the Marcellus Shale natural gas gathering and compression assets owned by Crestwood Equity Partners LP (CEQP), the companies reported Monday. The $250 million bolt-on acquisition, which requires regulatory approval, would boost Appalachian Basin pure-play Antero’s gas compression capacity by 20% and gas compression mileage by 15%, said management. CEQP…

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. Mexico’s power matrix relies on natural gas for 65% of its output. As such, gas consumption sees the same kind of seasonality…