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The U.S Department of Transportation has awarded a $20 million grant for railroad and pipeline improvements at the Long Ridge Energy Terminal in Monroe County, OH. The transloading facility, owned by Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors LLC, serves Utica Shale producers. The project would expand pipeline-to-rail transloading, add truck racks with unloading bays, ladder tracks connecting to a recently constructed loop track, and rail loading arms. Long Ridge operates natural gas liquids storage and transloading, and frac sand transloading at the facility. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said the funding would give the region’s energy exports, including natural gas, better access to global markets.

Phillips 66 Partners LP (PSXP) said it will expand the capacity of its Gray Oak crude oil pipeline system, which is currently under construction, to 900,000 b/d based on strong demand in the pipeline link connecting the Permian Basin and Eagle Ford Shale with the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A South Texas onshore crude oil export terminal capable of servicing fully laden very large crude carriers (VLCC) could be up and running by 2020, the Port of Corpus Christi and The Carlyle Group said Monday.

Just weeks after Enterprise Products Partners LP said that it is considering building a crude oil terminal offshore Texas, management on Wednesday said they’re also mulling another propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility and adding more natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation capacity to the company’s extensive midstream portfolio along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A top contender to make the delayed launch of Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) overseas exports is seeking permission to keep on trying for another five years.

Canadian natural gas developers aim to build overseas export outlets for liquid petroleum gas (LPG) byproducts that are on the rise as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing spread in northern Alberta and British Columbia (BC) shale deposits.

With Sabine Pass Train 3 online and Train 4 poised to begin taking feedgas in the coming days, Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Louisiana liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal could be pulling 3 Bcf/d from the U.S. natural gas market by the second quarter, Barclays Research said in a note Wednesday.

Tallgrass Energy Partners LP (TEP) has purchased two entities from Tallgrass Development, its privately held affiliate, in a $140 million dropdown, the company announced Tuesday.

Phillips 66 said its Freeport LPG Export Terminal in Freeport, TX, is now fully operational. The company loaded its first contracted cargo on the Commander, a very large gas carrier that departed the terminal Friday.