Infrastructure

Dakota Access LLC and Energy Transfer Crude Oil Co. LLC (ETCO) are holding a binding supplemental open season for their respective pipeline systems, seeking commitments from shippers for transportation service to bring production in the Bakken Shale and Three Forks formation to market.

ExxonMobil Corp. and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) said a team of scientists may have broken the code to reduce the amount of energy and carbon emissions associated with making plastics.

In an effort to ensure oil and natural gas operators working on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) have enough financial resources, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is proposing that entities holding rights-of-way (ROW) report actual costs incurred when their pipes are decommissioned.

Backers of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline now under construction filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against protesters opposed to the project, including leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Native American Tribe.

Government moves to crack down on methane emissions are fueling an environmental energy business niche developing in the western heartland of Canadian natural gas and oil production.

Owner/operator Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has indicated its shuttered 86 Bcf Aliso Canyon underground natural gas storage field may reopen this year, but most of the 114 storage wells still await final testing, officials said.

The two sides of San Antonio, TX-based Tesoro Corp. and its midstream unit, Tesoro Logistics (TLP), showed different faces of the low commodity price environment in 2Q2016, but CEO Greg Goff said there are opportunities for both companies.

TransTex Hunter LLC, a natural gas treatment and processing services company and subsidiary of Eureka Midstream LLC, has changed its name to TransTex LLC (TransTex). The Houston-based company plans to operate under the new name and logo of TransTex Treating. “The name change…better reflects our core competencies and strengths,” said Vice President Stephen Morgan. TransTex has a 10-acre fabrication facility in Hallettsville, TX, near Eagle Ford Shale operations. The plants are built in Texas to serve domestic and international markets. TransTex also has gas has gas treating, processing and production equipment deployed across the southern and northeastern part of the United States.

An affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc started acquiring rights-of-way this month for a 94-mile ethane transport system that would feed the company’s proposed multi-billion dollar cracker in Western Pennsylvania.