Gassco AS is in the process of restarting its Kollsnes gas processing plant and associated Vestprosess condensate pipeline in western Norway after a collision between two ships off the Sture terminal near Bergen early Nov. 8 led to closure of the installations. Source: News
EnLink launches open season for Cajun-Sibon line expansion
EnLink NGL Pipeline LP, a subsidiary of EnLink Midstream, launched a binding open season for expansion capacity volume commitments for common carrier transportation service on its existing Cajun-Sibon natural gas liquids pipeline system. Source: News
Wanhua Chemical lets contract for Yantai PDH plant
Wanhua Chemical Group Co. Ltd. has let a contract to Honeywell UOP LLC to implement its proprietary Honeywell Connected Plant Process Reliability Advisor (PRA) to provide prescriptive monitoring of a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit at Wanhua Chemical’s petrochemical plant in Yantai, Shandong Province, in eastern China. Source: News
Rystad: Tanker collision shuts in 365,000 b/d of Norwegian oil output
The Sture oil terminal in western Norway was shut and evacuated early Nov. 8 after a Maltese oil tanker and a Norwegian military frigate collided in this key North Sea oil port. Rystad Energy anticipates that 365,000 b/d of oil production will be shut in for several days before the terminal is again ready to […]
Saddlehorn, ARB launch open season Colorado to Cushing
Saddlehorn Pipeline Co. LLC and ARB Midstream LLC have launched an open season for crude oil transportation commitments for a joint tariff from the future Matador pipeline through the Saddlehorn pipeline to Cushing, Okla. Source: News
Lone Star to build seventh NGL frac facility, expand pipeline
Lone Star NGL LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer LP, Dallas, will construct a seventh natural gas liquids fractionation facility at Mont Belvieu, Tex., and expand the Lone Star Express Pipeline providing capacity for transportation commitments secured form the Delaware and Permian basins. Source: News
WGP to buy Anadarko’s midstream assets in $4-billion deal
Western Gas Partners LP (WGP) has agreed to acquire from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. substantially all Anadarko’s remaining midstream assets in a deal totaling $4.015 billion. Concurrently, WGP has agreed to a merger with Western Gas Equity Partners LP (WGEP), simplifying its midstream structure. Source: News
MARKET WATCH: NYMEX crude settles below $62/bbl on higher inventory
Rising US oil inventories caused light, sweet crude prices to drop modestly on the New York market, settling below $62/bbl on Nov. 7. Brent crude oil prices in London fell slightly to hold above $72/bbl on Nov. 7. Source: News
Washington voters defeat another levy on emissions of CO2
Large among losers in US midterm elections Nov. 6 is the assertion that Americans yearn to let others spend their money in response to climate change. Source: News
Five areas draw bids in Newfoundland and Labrador license round
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board received high bids totaling nearly $1.4 billion (Can.) for exploration licenses covering four areas in the Eastern Newfoundland Region and one area in the Jeanne d’Arc Region in a round of scheduled bidding that ended Nov. 7. Source: News