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Attractive margins, supported by shale plays, are driving producers and consumers to perpetuate a boom in natural gas liquids (NGL) while midstream infrastructure is running to keep up with demand, Enterprise Products Partners LP COO Jim Teague said last week.

Attractive margins, supported by shale plays, are driving producers and consumers to perpetuate a boom in natural gas liquids (NGL) while midstream infrastructure is running to keep up with demand, Enterprise Products Partners LP COO Jim Teague said Tuesday.

Columbia Gas said final testing was occurring Tuesday morning at its Milford location, where a long-running outage has been in place, and it anticipated that intraday nominations might be possible.

A section of Millennium Pipeline running from Corning to Ramapo, NY, poses “a pipeline integrity risk to public safety, property or the environment,” an investigation has found. In response to a proposed safety order, the pipeline told shippers it is operating at a reduced pressure; however, scheduled flows were not expected to be interrupted.

A section of Millennium Pipeline running from Corning to Ramapo, NY, poses “a pipeline integrity risk to public safety, property or the environment,” an investigation has found. In response to a proposed safety order, the pipeline told shippers it is operating at a reduced pressure; however, scheduled flows were not expected to be interrupted.

Xcel Energy said its Colorado utility will complete in October the upgrade of a six-inch diameter natural gas transmission pipeline to a 16-inch diameter line running in the west-central part of the state. The upgrade aims to address growing population and facilitate switching an existing coal-fired power plant to gas in another area of the Xcel utility system. The utility added a third construction crew to overcome delays and keep the project on schedule.

With time running out, New York officials say the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is “working full-time” to complete its supplemental generic environmental impact statement (SGEIS) on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) by a Friday deadline.

With a wee bit of help from prior-day screen firmness, gradually growing demand for power generation gas supplies to keep air conditioners running caused most cash market locations to realize substantive increases Tuesday. Even though odds of a Bay of Campeche low-pressure area becoming a named tropical storm didn’t get raised to 90% until well into the afternoon, just the chance of that happening so early in hurricane season may have been a modestly bullish factor to some traders.

DCP Midstream LLC plans to build a 110 MMcf/d gas processing plant and high-pressure gathering system in Weld County, CO, to augment its position in the Denver-Julesburg (DJ) Basin, the company said Tuesday.