Report Volume XXI, Number 7, December 1st, 2009
Posted by pcook on December 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
INDUSTRY NEWS (Channelview, TX) – Worldwide Machinery Pipeline Division recently provided U.S. Pipelines with an SPD-350 for their Alberta Clipper project for Enbridge. The pipe sizes for this project, which is located neat Bemidji, Minnesota, are 20″ and 36″ and is 180 miles.
In addition to the SPD-350 Worldwide Machinery was allowed to demo the gargantuan SPD-450. With a screening area of 90 sq. ft., this is the biggest and newest addition to SUPERIOR Manufacturing’s line of padding machines.
INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – PipeLine Machinery International (PLM) President Mel Ternan, on behalf of the Board of PLM is pleased to announce that Anthony J. (Tony) Fernandez has taken on the new position of Senior Vice President with PLM. Tony will expand his current Americas role and will take on all global sales and operations responsibility for the company.
“Tony has done an excellent job working closely with our customers and has led our Americas team through the challenges presented by the extraordinary level of growth since our formation in 2005,” said Ternan. “With Tony taking responsibility for daily operational and sales issues, we will have more opportunity at the president level to concentrate on strategic and PLM expansion plans.”
Tony Fernandez has been with PLM since its inception in May 2005. He was previously with Ring Power Corporation for 17 years in the roles of international accounts manager and later, pipeline division manager. Tony participated in the early discussions that resulted in a four-dealer partnership to form PLM and provide global focus from Caterpillar to the pipeline industry. He will continue his valued contributions as a member of the executive advisory team.
PLM was established in 2005 and is the first Caterpillar dealership to focus on a particular industry on a global basis. PLM provides purpose-built and traditional construction equipment to the mainline pipeline construction industry on projects around the world. PLM works closely with pipeline owners, contractors and local Caterpillar dealers to provide solutions tailored to the unique product and service needs of this industry.
INDUSTRY NEWS (Dallas, TX) – Regency Energy Partners LP announced plans recently to construct the second phase of the expanded Logansport gathering system in north Louisiana. The $40 million expansion will transport natural gas gathered from a producer’s dedicated acreage in DeSoto to Regency Energy’s Logansport gathering system.
The project also includes construction of an associated amine treating facility. Including this project, Regency and the Haynesville Joint Venture will have about $790 million invested in gathering and transportation projects in the Haynesville Shale to meet producers’ demands in this prominent play, Byron Kelley, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Regency, says in a news release. “This fee-based project further strengthens our position in the Haynesville Shale, which is a key component of our growth strategy.”
Regency Energy will install 4.5 miles of 10-inch gathering lines, route 7.5 miles of 12-inch pipe through more than 17 sections of acreage in DeSoto and add about 3.2 miles of 24- inch pipe to connect to its 24-inch Logansport first expansion.
Regency Energy also will install a gas treating facility with capacity of up to 300 mmcf/d. Construction is expected to begin in early December with completion targeted for the second quarter of 2010.
In addition to its expansion plans, Regency Energy is increasing the diameter of the previously announced 20- inch, 17-mile Logansport expansion pipeline to 24 inches. That pipeline will interconnect with CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission’s Line CP.
This will provide Regency Energy’s Logansport system with about 450 mmcf/d to 485 mmcf/d of capacity along the corridor that crosses the Gulf South East Texas Lateral, as well as the proposed Energy Transfer Tiger Pipeline. Regency Energy also is increasing the Logansport system’s incremental interconnect delivery capacities to Tennessee Gas Pipeline and Louisiana Intrastate Gas by about 100 mmcf/d and 30 mmcf/d, respectively.
“We are pleased to implement a solution that provides both needed takeaway capacity and also the potential to further expand Regency’s gathering capabilities for production within the surrounding areas of Logansport and DeSoto Parish,” Kelley said.