Pipeline

Equinor Finds More Oil, Natural Gas in North Sea’s Mature Fields

Equinor Finds More Oil, Natural Gas in North Sea’s Mature Fields

Equinor ASA said Friday it has made yet another oil and natural gas discovery in the northern part of the North Sea, building on efforts to maintain strong production for Europe in the years ahead as the continent continues to wean itself off Russian supplies. The new discovery in the company’s Troll/Fram area comes in…

August 21, 2023
TC Energy Spinning Off Liquids Pipelines Business as Natural Gas Takes Center Stage

TC Energy Spinning Off Liquids Pipelines Business as Natural Gas Takes Center Stage

TC Energy Corp. is spinning off its liquids pipelines business in order to narrow its focus on natural gas, power generation and decarbonization projects, management said Thursday (July 27). The spinoff, slated for completion in the second half of 2024, would separate the Calgary-based midstreamer into “two independent, investment-grade, publicly listed companies,” management said. The…

July 31, 2023
Argentina Sees Path Toward LNG Exports With Vaca Muerta Pipeline Online

Argentina Sees Path Toward LNG Exports With Vaca Muerta Pipeline Online

Argentina’s natural gas pipeline offering additional takeaway capacity from the Vaca Muerta shale formation went into service earlier this month. The Gasoducto Presidente Néstor Kirchner pipeline was built in 10 months, “record time,” the Energy Secretariat said. Capacity on the pipeline is 25 million cubic meters/day (MMcm). The line stretches from the town of Tratayén…

July 25, 2023
Kinder Morgan Sees LNG, Mexico Exports Driving U.S. Natural Gas Demand Up 20% by 2028

Kinder Morgan Sees LNG, Mexico Exports Driving U.S. Natural Gas Demand Up 20% by 2028

Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) is forecasting U.S. natural gas demand to grow by about 20 Bcf/d or 20% between 2023 and 2028 to roughly 121 Bcf/d, Executive Chairman Rich Kinder said Wednesday (July 19). “We expect 13.5 Bcf/d of that growth to come from LNG and Mexico exports, with moderate growth in the power, residential…

July 24, 2023
With Key Vaca Muerta Natural Gas Pipeline Online, Argentina Eyes LNG Exports

With Key Vaca Muerta Natural Gas Pipeline Online, Argentina Eyes LNG Exports

Argentina’s natural gas pipeline offering additional takeaway capacity from the Vaca Muerta shale formation went into service earlier this month. The Gasoducto Presidente Néstor Kirchner pipeline was built in 10 months, “record time,” the Energy Secretariat said. Capacity on the pipeline is 25 Mm3/d. The line stretches from the town of Tratayén in Neuquén province…

July 17, 2023
TC’s Coastal GasLink Forecasting Montney Natural Gas Deliveries by Year’s End

TC’s Coastal GasLink Forecasting Montney Natural Gas Deliveries by Year’s End

A year-end completion target can be hit after Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. construction hit the 90% completion mark on its 670-kilometer (400-mile) natural gas pipeline linking Montney Shale production to the Shell plc-led LNG Canada liquefied natural gas export terminal, according to the company. All but 48 kilometers (29 miles) of pipe have been laid…

June 30, 2023
Mexico’s CFE, Esentia Planning $300M Investment to Shore Up Natural Gas Pipeline Network

Mexico’s CFE, Esentia Planning $300M Investment to Shore Up Natural Gas Pipeline Network

Mexico’s state power company Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) and Esentia Energy Systems have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly invest roughly $300 million to optimize and expand the country’s natural gas pipeline network. CFE, through subsidiaries CFE International LLC and CFEnergía, is Mexico’s largest importer and marketer of U.S. natural gas, which…

June 28, 2023
Kodiak Prepares IPO as Lower 48 Natural Gas Production Forecast to Increase

Kodiak Prepares IPO as Lower 48 Natural Gas Production Forecast to Increase

Lower 48-focused Kodiak Gas Services LLC, the largest privately owned natural gas contract compression company in the country, is preparing to go public with an offering that could fetch a valuation of nearly $1.7 billion. Based in Montgomery, TX, about 50 miles northeast of Houston, Kodiak is proposing to sell 16 million shares through an…

June 26, 2023
Sweltering Heat Boosts West Texas Natural Gas Forwards, with LNG Keeping Pressure On Prices

Sweltering Heat Boosts West Texas Natural Gas Forwards, with LNG Keeping Pressure On Prices

U.S. natural gas markets failed to sustain much momentum across the forward curve during the June 8-14 trading period, with July prices averaging 2.0 cents lower as widespread heat has yet to materialize, according to NGI’s Forward Look. With plump production figures still coming out and storage inventories sitting above average levels, similarly small price…

June 16, 2023
Cheniere’s Midship Ordered to Compensate Oklahoma Landowners for 1.1 Bcf/d Natural Gas Pipeline Construction

Cheniere’s Midship Ordered to Compensate Oklahoma Landowners for 1.1 Bcf/d Natural Gas Pipeline Construction

A federal court in Oklahoma has ordered Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Midship Pipeline Co. LLC to pay landowners nearly $170,000 plus interest for the use of private land during the pipeline’s construction.  The pipeline started flowing up to 1.1 Bcf/d of natural gas in April 2020. However, area landowners in August 2021 said pipeline construction had…

June 5, 2023