Southeastern

El Paso Pipeline Partners LP (EPB) is buying an additional 22% stake in southeastern interstate pipeline system Southern Natural Gas Co. (SNG) from El Paso Corp., the parent of both companies, for $587 million.

A unit of Japan’s ITOCHU Corp. is to acquire a one-quarter interest in Niobrara oil shale acreage in southeastern Wyoming, marking the first time a Japanese company is participating in a U.S. oil shale project.

Enbridge Inc. is holding an open season for a new interstate pipeline from the company’s Carthage Hub in East Texas to an interconnect with Southern Natural Gas in southeastern Louisiana. One of the proposed LaCrosse Pipeline’s main selling points: it would bypass the gas-jam that some predict will be afflicting the popular Perryville Hub in North Louisiana where a number of east-bound projects are aimed, Enbridge said.

Enbridge Inc. is holding an open season for a new interstate pipeline from the company’s Carthage Hub in East Texas to an interconnect with Southern Natural Gas in southeastern Louisiana. One of the proposed LaCrosse Pipeline’s main selling points: it would bypass the gas-jam that some predict will be afflicting the popular Perryville Hub in North Louisiana where a number of east-bound projects are aimed, Enbridge said.

As new supplies of gas from the Barnett Shale and Bossier Sands in Texas, the Haynesville Shale in northwest Louisiana, the Woodford Shale in southeastern Oklahoma and the Fayetteville Shale in northeast Arkansas continue to ramp up, Perryville, located in northeastern Louisiana, finds itself ideally situated as a gathering place to store and move the gas to markets in the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast.

North America’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and transshipment facility at Grassy Point on Placentia Bay in southeastern Newfoundland moved a step closer to reality with the Monday release of an environmental assessment report on the project by Canada’s Environmental Assessment Agency.

With drilling programs beginning to hit their stride in the once contested Atlantic Rim leasehold and across the southeastern corner of Wyoming, small and large exploration and production (E&P) companies are stepping up their coalbed methane (CBM) programs in the Greater Green River Basin to take advantage of the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) and sharply higher natural gas prices.

With drilling programs beginning to hit their stride in the once contested Atlantic Rim leasehold and across the southeastern corner of Wyoming, small and large exploration and production (E&P) companies are stepping up their coalbed methane (CBM) programs in the Greater Green River Basin to take advantage of the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) and sharply higher natural gas prices.

As natural gas production continues to grow in the Woodford Shale of southeastern Oklahoma, OGE Energy Corp. subsidiary Enogex Inc. is proposing new firm Section 311 natural gas interstate transportation service on the company’s intrastate pipeline system in the region. Enogex has opened a binding open season to solicit shipper interest in the plan.