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Sunoco Pipeline LP last week launched a binding open season for additional shipper commitments on its Mariner East pipeline system, which has been plagued by legal and regulatory delays.

Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP is holding a binding open season to test support for intrastate Texas service from the Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast for up to 50,000 b/d of volume commitments on Phase 1 of Permian Express 3. The capacity offered would represent the remaining available volumes for first phase of the 140,000 b/d system. The remaining capacity is expected to come online later this year. For information contact Vice President Chris Martin at (713) 989-6250 or email him at chris.martin@energytransfer.com.

January natural gas was set to open about 3 cents higher Wednesday at around $2.951 as the market looks to assess the impact from the arrival of more frigid temperatures across the eastern half of the country beginning this week.

November natural gas is expected to open 6 cents lower Monday morning at $2.95 as weather forecasts provided little in the way of upward stimulus and traders eye the short side of the market. Overnight oil markets tumbled.

A subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline LPis conducting an open season through July 17 for committed crude oil pipeline capacity from the Permian Basin’s Delaware sub-basin to the Cushing hub in Oklahoma. The pipeline would originate at Conan Station in Loving County, TX. Depending on the results of the open season, committed volumes would move on a combination of new and existing pipelines. Subject to shipper commitments and regulatory approvals, the pipeline could be operational in mid-2019. For information contact Kevin Snodgrass.

Twenty-four companies representing a wide range of industries and national origin gained access Monday to Mexico’s natural gas pipelines that had been under the control of state-run oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) for almost eight decades.

Tall Oak Midstream II LLC is holding a nonbinding open season through April 20 for its TOM Midcon Transport residue gas pipeline project, which would serve Midcontinent producers with increased takeaway capacity.

Phillips 66 is holding an open season for capacity on the proposed Reeves-Odessa Origination (Rodeo) Project, which would provide crude oil takeaway capacity from the Delaware Basin, a subbasin of the Permian.

St. Louis, MO-based Spire Inc. — formerly The Laclede Group — announced an open season for the Spire STL Pipeline, a proposed 70-mile steel natural gas pipeline that would interconnect to the Rockies Express Pipeline in Scott County, IL, and end in St. Louis County, MO.