Infrastructure

U.S. Pipelines Spurn Latest Pemex RFP

The two North American pipelines with substantial stakes in Mexico have passed up the latest bidding solicitation by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), which has been looking for potential builders for a $1.8 billion natural gas pipeline, considered the biggest now ongoing in the country.

October 16, 2013

Tennessee’s Northeast Upgrade Inching Closer to Full Operation

Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) Tuesday got the go-ahead from FERC to place into service three pipeline loops associated with its Northeast Upgrade Project, which will carry an additional 636,000 Dth/d of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale to Northeast markets.

October 15, 2013

Colorado State Studying Midstream Methane Emissions

The gathering and processing segment of the natural gas supply chain will be the focus of a study of methane emissions about to be undertaken by researchers at Colorado State University (CSU). It is one component of a larger effort to study methane emissions associated with the natural gas industry.

October 15, 2013

Florida, Ohio Links Set for NatGas Highway

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has signed a multi-year natural gas fueling deal with an interstate long-haul trucking firm, Raven Transport Inc., that will include completing two new fueling stations in Clean Energy’s “natural gas highway” in Florida and Ohio.

October 11, 2013

Regency, PVR In $5.6B Multi-Basin Midstream Tie-Up

Regency Energy Partners LP plans to buy PVR Partners LP in a $5.6 billion deal (including $1.8 billion of debt) to create a natural gas gathering and processing giant with a presence in Appalachia, West Texas, South Texas, the Midcontinent and North Louisiana.

October 11, 2013

Polymer Research Could Mean Lighter CNG Tanks

One of the challenges to widespread adoption of natural gas vehicles (NGV) has been the weight of the metal tanks needed to hold compressed natural gas (CNG). A researcher at Houston’s Rice University might have hit upon an answer.

October 11, 2013

West Primed for New Gas Infrastructure, Experts Say

If a variety of industry experts are correct, the western United States is on the brink of an upsurge in natural gas demand outstripping supply and resulting in a need for a new wave of infrastructure being built from the Rockies westward.

October 11, 2013

Florida, Ohio Links Set for NatGas Highway

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has signed a multi-year natural gas fueling deal with an interstate long-haul trucking firm, Raven Transport Inc., that will include completing two new fueling stations in Clean Energy’s “natural gas highway” in Florida and Ohio.

October 11, 2013

Regency, PVR In $5.6B Multi-Basin Midstream Tie-Up

Regency Energy Partners LP plans to buy PVR Partners LP in a $5.6 billion deal (including $1.8 billion of debt) to create a natural gas gathering and processing giant with a presence in Appalachia, West Texas, South Texas, the Midcontinent and North Louisiana.

October 11, 2013

Polymer Research Could Mean Lighter CNG Tanks

One of the challenges to widespread adoption of natural gas vehicles (NGV) has been the weight of the metal tanks needed to hold compressed natural gas (CNG). A researcher at Houston’s Rice University might have hit upon an answer.

October 11, 2013