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Comstock Feels Transition Pains on Way to Oil

Comstock Feels Transition Pains on Way to Oil

By building positions in the Eagle Ford Shale and the Permian Basin, Comstock Resources Inc. has been Texas two-stepping away from nearly all dry gas production to oil, but the dance hasn’t always been graceful, as fourth quarter results show.

February 14, 2013

Power Plants Seen Curing Boardwalk’s Basis Blues

Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP has been feeling the impact of shifting market fundamentals as shrinking basis differentials make recontracting capacity on some of its pipelines more challenging. However, more demand from new power generators is waiting in the wings to take up the slack.

February 12, 2013
Howard Midstream Plans Eagle Ford Cryogenic Plant

Howard Midstream Plans Eagle Ford Cryogenic Plant

Howard Midstream Energy Partners LLC (HEP) will construct a cryogenic natural gas plant capable of processing 200 MMcf/d in the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale in Webb County, TX, the San Antonio, TX-based company said Wednesday.

February 7, 2013

Enterprise’s Teague: Ethane Margins to Be Anemic, Volatile

Enterprise Products Partners LP infrastructure bounced back from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and a fire at Mont Belvieu, TX, in 2011, and the partnership will weather the current “tsunami of natural gas liquids (NGL)” that is ravaging margins in the light end of the NGL barrel, Enterprise COO Jim Teague told financial analysts Thursday.

February 4, 2013

Kinder Morgan Strikes $5B Deal for Copano

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP) is acquiring Copano Energy LLC in a deal worth $5 billion, including debt. Midstreamer Copano is active mainly in Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming and has been a joint venture (JV) partner with KMP in the Eagle Ford Shale.

February 4, 2013

Enterprise COO: Ethane Margins Anemic, Volatile

Enterprise Products Partners LP infrastructure bounced back from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and a fire at Mont Belvieu, TX, in 2011, and the partnership will weather the current “tsunami of natural gas liquids (NGL)” that is ravaging margins in the light end of the NGL barrel, Enterprise COO Jim Teague told financial analysts last Thursday.

February 4, 2013

Kinder Morgan Picking Up Copano in $5B Deal

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP) is acquiring Copano Energy LLC in a deal worth $5 Billion, including debt. Midstreamer Copano is active mainly in Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming and has been a joint venture (JV) partner with KMP in the Eagle Ford Shale.

January 31, 2013
Kinder Putting More Straws in Texas Shales with Copano Deal

Kinder Putting More Straws in Texas Shales with Copano Deal

With its acquisition of Copano Energy LLC, announced Wednesday, Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP) will expand its footprint in Texas shale plays, the Eagle Ford in particular, as it adds gas gathering, processing, treating and natural gas liquids fractionation assets.

January 31, 2013

Oneok Partners to Expand Williston NGL Capacity

Oneok Partners LP Thursday launched plans to invest up to $500 million between now and 2015 to build additional natural gas liquids (NGL) infrastructure in some of its Midcontinent operations, with the bulk of the funds earmarked for the Williston Basin.

January 22, 2013

Bakken Pipeline Capacity Getting Railroaded, Parties at FERC Say

Enbridge Energy Partners LP’s North Dakota crude oil pipeline system has been underutilized since November due to increasing competition from rail and other pipeline transport options, refiner Flint Hills Resources LP, a unit of Koch Industries Inc., told FERC in a filing.

January 18, 2013