US rig count hits all-time low in recorded data

The overall weekly US rig count is now at its lowest point in Baker Hughes Inc. data that begins in the 1940s, and perhaps since the infancy of US oil and gas industry in the mid-19th century. Source: News


Veresen Midstream advances Montney processing expansion plans

Cutbank Ridge Partnership (CRP), a venture of Encana Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. subsidiary Cutbank Dawson Gas Resources Ltd., has approved Veresen Midstream LP’s plan to expand natural gas processing capacity in the Dawson Creek area of northeastern British Columbia’s Montney resource play. Source: News


Construction nears for Hillabee expansion project

Williams Partners LP expects to begin construction in May on its Hillabee natural gas pipeline expansion project, recently approved by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The first phase of the project is expected to go into service in May 2017. Source: News


AOC says Hangingstone 1 SAGD project production hits 8,000 b/d

Athabasca Oil Corp. (AOC), Calgary, said bitumen production from its Hangingstone 1 steam-assisted gravity drainage oil sands project in Alberta has reached 8,000 b/d and is on track to reach design capacity of 12,000 b/d in this year’s fourth quarter. Source: News


Cabot to appeal Dimock water-well award

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. said it will appeal a federal court award of $4.24 million to two families who said hydraulic fracturing of two wells by the company in Dimock Township, Pa., contaminated their well water. Source: News


LBC Tank Terminals expands storage capacity at Port of Rotterdam

LBC Rotterdam BV, a division of LBC Tank Terminals Holding Netherlands BV, has let a contract to Engicon nv (Geldof), Harelbeke, Belgium, to provide engineering and construction services for all mechanical aspects of a project to expand storage capacity for petroleum products and chemicals at LBC’s terminal in the Port of Rotterdam. Source: News