Processing

Williams Partners LP has reached agreement with Southwestern Energy Co. to expand the producer’s natural gas gathering and processing services in West Virginia.

A dramatic increase in processing and fractionation capacity in Appalachia since 2010 has helped set the pace for the region’s natural gas production growth, with more expansion on the horizon, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a note Tuesday.

KP Engineering LP(KPE) has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $100 million by Targa Pipeline Mid-Continent WestTex LLC, a subsidiary of Targa Resources Corp., to provide engineering, procurement and construction for a 200 MMcf/d natural gas cryogenic processing facility in the Permian Basin of West Texas. The facility, to be built near Midkiff, is to include a 5,000 b/d condensate stabilizer, low-pressure compression, intermediate compression, custody transfer metering, slug catchers and a control system for processing raw gas by extracting natural gas liquids and removing impurities.

A 280 MMcf/d sour gas facility, designed to serve Montney Shale producers working in the Pipestone region of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, is underway by a unit of SemGroup Corp.

More natural gas processing capacity and pipeline takeaway are underway in the Permian Basin under an infrastructure agreement between Crestwood Equity Partners LP and First Reserve.

Lucid Energy Group announced Tuesday the start-up of a 200 MMcf/d cryogenic natural gas processing expansion at its Red Hills complex in Lea County, NM, adding that it remains on schedule to bring another new plant online in the state early next year to serve more activity in the Permian Basin.

SemGroup Corp. plans to build a natural gas pipeline to connect its processing complex in northern Oklahoma to the Sooner Trend of the Anadarko Basin, mostly in Canadian and Kingfisher counties, (STACK) play.

Brazos Midstream Holdings LLC has completed multiple crude oil and gas gathering and processing projects in the southern Delaware Basin, a subbasin of the Permian Basin that is one of the most active oil- and gas-producing basins in the United States. Brazos commenced operation of a new 60 MMcf/d gas processing plant (Comanche I), several new compressor stations and 150 miles of large-diameter, low- and high-pressure gas gathering pipelines. The project also included the construction of 35 miles of crude oil gathering pipelines, two crude oil storage terminals with a combined capacity of 50,000 bbl and connections to multiple downstream crude oil pipelines. Brazos also has begun construction of a second gas processing plant (Comanche II), which will add 200 MMcf/d of capacity. Comanche II is expected to be operational during the first quarter of 2018 and will increase Brazos’ total operated processing capacity in the Delaware Basin to 260 MMcf/d.

Brazos Midstream Holdings LLC has completed multiple crude oil and gas gathering and processing projects in the southern Delaware Basin, a subbasin of the Permian Basin that is one of the most active oil- and gas-producing basins in the United States. Brazos commenced operation of a new 60 MMcf/d gas processing plant (Comanche I), several new compressor stations and 150 miles of large-diameter, low- and high-pressure gas gathering pipelines. The project also included the construction of 35 miles of crude oil gathering pipelines, two crude oil storage terminals with a combined capacity of 50,000 bbl and connections to multiple downstream crude oil pipelines. Brazos also has begun construction of a second gas processing plant (Comanche II), which will add 200 MMcf/d of capacity. Comanche II is expected to be operational during the first quarter of 2018 and will increase Brazos’ total operated processing capacity in the Delaware Basin to 260 MMcf/d.