INDUSTRY NEWS (Tulsa, OK) – A subsidiary of SemGroup Corporation, an affiliate of Chesapeake Energy Corporation, and Gavilon, LLC, recently announced the formation of Glass Mountain Pipeline LLC and the signing of definitive agreements to build the previously announced 210-mile crude oil pipeline. Construction of the pipeline is expected to begin this summer and be commissioned in the fall of 2013.

The new pipeline, constructed by SemGroup, will have an initial capacity of approximately 140,000 barrels per day and 440,000 barrels of intermediate storage. The pipeline will consist of two laterals. One lateral will originate near the town of Alva in Woods County, Oklahoma. The second lateral will originate near the town of Arnett in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The pipeline will increase in diameter where the laterals intersect near Cleo Springs in Major County, Oklahoma and continue east to Cushing, Oklahoma. The pipeline will terminate at Gavilon’s Cushing facility, where the joint venture will own one million barrels of crude oil storage. Following pipeline construction, Rose Rock Midstream, LP, SemGroup’s master limited partnership, will serve as the pipeline operator.

Chesapeake Energy has entered into a long-term transportation agreement with Glass Mountain Pipeline to provide the economic incentive to construct the pipeline. The pipeline system is expected to meet growing and diverse midstream requirements resulting from the drilling activity in western Oklahoma and the Mississippi Lime play.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – Enbridge Inc. could be doing more digging across St. Clair County as early as next year.

The company, based in Calgary, Alberta, submitted a proposal to replace more than 200 miles of Line 6B to the Michigan Public Service Commission on April 16. The pipeline replacement includes 15 miles of pipeline in St. Clair County.

The company currently is doing maintenance work on the pipeline on Range Road near 18th Street in Marysville. The work is expected to finish within the next two weeks.

The 30-inch-diameter pipeline, installed in 1969, runs from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia. It transports crude oil to refineries. The company wants to replace the pipeline to reduce the number of future maintenance activities and to restore the capacity of the line, said Joe Martucci, Enbridge spokesman.

The pipeline has been operating at a reduced pressure since 2010. It produces 243,000 barrels of oil a day with the pressure restrictions, but projections show the new pipeline will produce about 500,000 barrels of oil a day, Martucci said.

“The demand is there from customers and we’re trying to be responsive,” he said. Replacing the pipeline will be done in two phases, Martucci said. Part of the first phase — which includes two five-mile segments east of pumping stations near Griffith and LaPorte, Ind. and three five-mile segments east of Niles, Mendon and Marshall — already has been approved. The other part of the first phase — a 50-mile segment between Stockbridge and Ortonville — is near approval. Work on the first phase will be done this year, Martucci said.

The existing pipeline will be decommissioned and remain in place, he said. The new pipeline will be placed about 25 feet from the existing line.
Phase two includes 210 miles of pipeline from Griffith, Ind. to Marysville that was not replaced during phase one. A preliminary hearing for the phase two proposal will be at 9 a.m. June 6 in Lansing.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Oklahoma City, OK) – Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. a midstream energy company focused on providing integrated services for companies engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of crude oil, asphalt and other petroleum products, today announced plans to construct a crude oil pipeline as part of a long-term transportation agreement with XTO Energy Inc., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corporation.

In connection with the agreement, BKEP will construct a 65-mile pipeline from southern Oklahoma to Wynnewood, Oklahoma, where it will intersect with an existing BKEP pipeline. The pipeline will transport committed XTO crude oil production from the Woodford Shale area in Southern Oklahoma to BKEP’s crude oil terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma.

“We’re pleased to have the opportunity to provide XTO with an efficient and reliable way to transport their crude oil production from the Woodford Shale to the market hub in Cushing, Oklahoma,” said J. Michael Cockrell, Blueknight Energy Partners’ president and chief operating officer. “The new pipeline and associated infrastructure represents a significant expansion of our Oklahoma mainline system and positions the company to pursue additional crude oil transportation opportunities throughout southern Oklahoma.”

BKEP expects construction of the new pipeline and associated enhancements to its Oklahoma mainline system to begin this quarter with completion targeted early-mid 2013 at an approximate total cost of $37 million.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston,TX) – Willbros Group, Inc. announced recently a collaboration with GeoEye, Inc.  a leading source of geospatial information and insight, to develop a cloud-based pipeline integrity management solution. This cloud-based solution will provide customers easy access to real-time pipeline information integrated with GeoEye’s high-resolution, map-accurate commercial satellite imagery served from the Google Earth Builder platform.

This innovative solution addresses the pipeline industry’s need for timely and cost-effective access to accurate integrity management data to help them maintain and update aging pipeline infrastructure and comply with federal regulations and safety requirements. Built on the intuitive cloud-based Google Earth Builder platform, this solution will augment customers’ existing GIS platforms with a single, reliable source for accessing vital pipeline integrity information for about half the cost of traditional disparate methods, helping operators better manage risk, lower operating costs and improve pipeline performance.

“This solution will become the new standard in pipeline lifecycle integrity management,” said Ed Wiegele, Willbros President of Engineering and Integrity. “Real-time access to intelligence stored in the cloud will radically change the way pipeline owners and operators conduct business, respond to issues and maintain regulatory compliance. This platform solves many of the issues the pipeline industry has faced over the last decade by connecting people with the tools they need to access, correct and maintain information about a pipeline’s complete lifecycle.”

There are more than 2.5 million miles of pipelines in theU.S.and about 3,000 pipeline operators according to the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). This represents a large potential market that can benefit from this new integrated management solution.

Wiegele said this solution provides a total system for users to both access real-time pipeline data and enable efficient field data collection. Personnel in the field will be able to connect to and update data from laptops, tablets, smart phones and other portable devices.

“We are extremely pleased that Willbros selected GeoEye’s EyeQ Earth imagery services built on Google Earth Builder for this solution,” said Dean Edmundson, Vice President of Business Development for GeoEye. “Timely access to current, high-resolution pipeline imagery plays a critical role in delivering the clear and timely insight required for effective management across the pipeline integrity lifecycle.”

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston,TX) – Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. and Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. affiliates of Enbridge Inc. recently announced a second Open Season for the Bakken Expansion Program in conjunction with an Open Season for EEP’s proposed Sanish Pipeline. The Sanish Pipeline will transport crude oil production from Johnson’s Corner to Beaver Lodge,North Dakota. The Bakken Expansion Program Open Season will offer pipeline capacity on Enbridge’s system from Beaver Lodge into Enbridge’s terminal atCromer,Manitoba where it connects with the Enbridge Mainline System, which offers access to refineries throughout the Upper Midwest, easternCanada, Mid-Continent and as far as the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The two open seasons are being conducted jointly to provide shippers with the option of contracting for capacity from Johnson’s Corner to Enbridge’s Beaver Lodge and Berthold Stations as well as to Cromer.

EEP’s proposed Sanish Pipeline is a new 36-mile, 12″ crude oil line capable of transporting a minimum 67,000 barrels per day (bpd) from Johnson’s Corner into EEP’s existing facilities at Beaver Lodge. The Bakken Expansion Program, currently under construction by EEP in theUSand by Enbridge Income Fund inCanada, will provide a total of 145,000 barrels per day (bpd) of incremental pipeline capacity from Beaver Lodge to Cromer when it comes into service in Q1 2013. At Berthold, EEP is constructing a new 80,000 bpd rail export facility which is planned to be in-service at the same time.

“The Bakken and Three Forks formations have catapulted North Dakota into the position of being one of the leading oil producing states in the U.S. Along with this proposed Sanish Pipeline, we have increased the export capacity of our North Dakota system by almost 350% since 2008,” said Stephen J. Wuori, President, Liquids Pipelines, Enbridge. “Sanish provides customers located South of the River with an entrance to Enbridge’s expanded systems to access a total of 475,000 bpd of capacity out ofNorth Dakotain 2013. Enbridge is developing other projects that will continue our significant capital investment in this prolific region to provide reliable, economical and secure access to a wide variety of refinery markets, including the US Gulf Coast.”

(INDUSTRY NEWS) Houston, TX– Calnev Pipe Line, LLC operating partnership for Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, LP, proposes to add an additional refined petroleum products pipeline in California and Nevada, in order to expand the capacity of the Calnev Pipeline System. The Calnev Pipeline Expansion Project (hereafter, the Proposed Project) would involve the construction, operation, and maintenance of a new 16-inch-diameter pipeline and ancillary facilities from an existing facility in Colton, California to an existing facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. The proposed pipeline would parallel two existing system pipelines for most of the route.

The new pipeline would extend approximately 233 miles from the existing North Colton Terminal in Colton,San Bernardino County,Californiato the Bracken Junction near theMcCarranInternationalAirportinLas Vegas,Clark County,Nevada. In addition to the new pipeline, the Proposed Project would include a new pump station and ancillary facilities near Baker,California; a new 3-mile lateral from the Bracken Junction toMcCarranInternationalAirport; and new or modified connections to new or modified laterals, valves, and ancillary modifications. The pipeline crosses lands primarily under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. In addition, the proposed pipeline would cross lands under the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service, the United States Navy, Marine Corps Logistics Base, the Counties of San Bernardino, California andClark,Nevada, and various cities along the Interstate 15 corridor fromColton,CaliforniatoLas Vegas,Nevada.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Tulsa, OK) – ONEOK Partners, L.P. recently announced plans to invest $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion between now and 2015 to build a 1,300-mile crude-oil pipeline with the capacity to transport 200,000 barrels per day (bpd).  The Bakken Crude Express Pipeline will transport light-sweet crude oil from the Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin in North Dakota to the Cushing, Okla., crude-oil market hub.
 
“As producers continue to aggressively develop crude oil from wells in the Bakken Shale, more crude-oil pipeline takeaway capacity will be required,” said Terry K. Spencer, ONEOK Partners president. “This proposed pipeline will provide producers with efficient and reliable transportation of their product directly to one of the largest crude-oil market hubs in the U.S.”
 
“It also represents our entry into the crude-oil transportation business and utilizes our existing core capabilities of transporting and storing natural gas, natural gas liquids and refined petroleum products,” he said. “Many of the supply commitments under negotiation are with the same producers in the Williston Basin that we currently serve.”
 
Supply commitments for the proposed pipeline are in various stages of negotiation. Following receipt of all necessary permits and compliance with customary regulatory requirements, construction is expected to begin in late 2013 or early 2014 and be completed by early 2015.  Based on supply commitments prior to construction, the capacity can be increased.
 
Additionally, the proposed pipeline route will be well-positioned to transport crude-oil production from the Niobrara Shale. 
The proposed pipeline route is expected to parallel more than 80 percent of the partnership’s existing and planned natural gas liquids pipelines.  It will be designed, constructed and operated using proven technology, pipeline control systems and continuous safety monitoring.
 
The partnership has previously announced that it is investing $2.8 billion to $3.5 billion through 2014 in growth projects.  Of these projects, it is investing $1.6 billion to $2 billion in projects related to the Bakken Shale that include the 500-mile NGL pipeline, the Bakken Pipeline; a 270-mile natural gas gathering system and related infrastructure in Divide County, N.D.; and three 100 MMcf/d natural gas processing facilities – Garden Creek plant, Stateline I plant and Stateline II plant — and related infrastructure. The Garden Creek plant went into service in December 2011.
 
Additionally, the partnership has a $1 billion-plus backlog of unannounced growth projects that will be announced when sufficient supply commitments are completed.
 

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – Enterprise Products Partners L.P., Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and DCP Midstream, LLC recently announced an agreement to design and construct a new natural gas liquids (“NGL”) pipeline that will originate in the Denver-Julesburg Basin (“DJ Basin”) in Weld County, Colorado and extend approximately 435 miles to Skellytown, Texas in Carson County.  Each party will hold a one-third interest. The new Front Range Pipeline (“Front Range”), with connections to the Mid-America Pipeline system and the recently announced Texas Express Pipeline, will help producers in the DJ Basin maximize the value of their NGL production by providing reliable takeaway capacity and market access to the Gulf Coast, the largest NGL market in  the United States.
 
Enterprise will construct and operate the pipeline, which is expected to begin service in the fourth quarter of 2013.
 

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – NiSource Gas Transmission and Storage recently announced a partnership with XTO Energy to build a 70-mile natural gas pipeline across Southwestern Pennsylvania.
 
The line will serve as a gathering system for Marcellus shale wells in Butler, Armstrong, Allegheny, Indiana and Westmoreland counties.
 
Construction of the pipeline has started in the Alle-Kiski Valley. As just one example, trees were recently cleared in Buffalo Township to make way for the line.
 
The $150 million pipeline project, formerly known as the Lancer Line, has been dubbed the Big Pine Gathering System.
 
NiSource plans to replace the dormant 55-mile, 10-inch Buckeye pipeline with a combination 20- or 24-inch high pressure line. The company will lay new pipe to extend the line on both ends of the former Buckeye line.
 
“(XTO), along with other producers in the area, will now have the capacity and access to markets needed in this burgeoning shale gas development play in Western Pennsylvania by the end of the year,” Jimmy Staton, NiSource executive vice president, said in a written statement.
 
Since 2008, the state Department of Environmental Protection issued to XTO Energy about 360 well permits in the five counties where the pipeline will be located. An XTO spokesman wouldn’t say how many wells will feed into the gathering line. The company is a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.
 
The system is expected to provide an initial capacity of about 425 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.
 
NiSource, which owns Columbia Gas Transmission, parent company of Columbia Gas of Pa., plans to connect the pipeline with its own transmission line as well as Texas Eastern Transmission and Dominion Transmission lines.
 
Construction likely will begin in mid-summer and the line is expected to be in service by December.
 

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – Plains Pipeline, L.P., a subsidiary of Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. announced recently that it is conducting an open season for committed capacity on a proposed new crude oil pipeline from Baker, Montana to Billings, Montana. The open season process provides an opportunity for potential shippers to offer long-term volume commitments for service from Baker, Montana to Billings, Montana or from Baker, Montana to Casper, Wyoming in exchange for a discounted rate.
 
The proposed pipeline would originate at Plains’ Baker, Montana station and provide an initial capacity of at least 50,000 barrels per day of light sweet crude oil to Billings, Montana. From the Billings station, shippers will have the option to transport volumes on Plains’ jointly owned Beartooth/Bighorn system, which provides service to Casper and Guernsey/Ft. Laramie, Wyoming. Further, shippers will have the option to transport volumes from Casper to the Salt Lake City market via Plains’ jointly owned Frontier and Wasatch pipelines. 
 

INDUSTRY NEWS  (Houston, TX) – Willbros Construction announced recently that it has been awarded a contract by Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. to construct a portion of the Red River Gathering Pipeline. The scope of work includes construction of 97 miles of 30″ pipeline from Ardmore, OK to Denton, TX. Mobilization is underway and construction is scheduled to commence in early April.
 
Randy Harl, President and Chief Executive Officer, remarked, “We are very pleased to continue our relationship with Energy Transfer and look forward to supporting the expansion of their processing and gathering system. The significant growth in the midstream market is driving additional opportunities for our strategy to offer comprehensive services to project developments in the liquid-rich drilling plays such as the Woodford shale. This project supports both that strategy and our corporate value to offer timely, cost effective solutions to all our customers.”

BKEP will construct a 65-mile pipeline from southern Oklahoma to Wynnewood, Oklahoma, where it will intersect with an existing BKEP pipeline. The pipeline will transport committed XTO crude oil production from the Woodford Shale area in Southern Oklahoma to BKEP’s crude oil terminal inCushing,Oklahoma.

BKEP expects construction of the new pipeline and associated enhancements to its Oklahoma mainline system to begin this quarter with completion targeted early-mid 2013 at an approximate total cost of $37 million.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – NET Midstream announced that Eagle Ford Midstream, LP, a wholly owned subsidiary of NET, will build a 105-mile, 24″ – 30″ diameter extension of its existing gas pipeline. The extension will be anchored by a long-term, gas transportation agreement with an affiliate of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (“Anadarko”). The extended pipeline will transport residue gas from Western Gas Partners, LP’s Brasada natural gas processing plant in LaSalle County, Texas to interstate and intrastate pipelines at the Agua Dulce Hub in Nueces County, Texas. The first phase of the expansion will be placed into service in December 2012, with completion by April 2013.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Tulsa, OK) – Oneok Rockies Midstream is proposing to construct the pipelines from a gas processing plant in Williams County, Stateline Gas Processing Plant Phase I, which is under construction. It will be followed by Stateline Gas Processing Plant Phase II.The two pipelines, one 12-inch, the other 16-inch, will parallel about 20 feet apart for most of the distance, according to a proposal sent out as a part of an environmental assessment. The 16-inch pipe will run 37 miles and the 12-inch pipe will run 27 miles. “The proposal to install two lines in one project is intended to minimize impacts and meet both current and foreseeable future needs,” according to the notice. The 16-inch pipe will be used to handle gas flow when Stateline II comes online, according to the proposal. The new pipelines will “follow existing pipeline corridors where possible,” according to the proposal. Proposal maps indicate most of the distance won’t be in existing pipeline corridors. The pipelines’ route will cross about four miles of federal land, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will ultimately approve or deny the project. According to the proposal, horizontal drilling will used to run the pipeline under the Missouri River and other water, such as wetlands or streams to limit impact.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Portland, OR) – Coos County has begun studying routes for a 16-mile section of pipeline that would funnel natural gas from Coos Bay to Bandon. The county awarded NW Natural a contract to find three routes and present them to the commissioners by August. The engineering firm will then design the pipeline. Construction would begin in 2014. The 4-inch pipeline is part of a project to bring natural gas from Roseburg to Coos County.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Wyomissing, PA) – UGI Energy Services Inc., a Valley Forge-based natural gas, electricity and liquid fuels marketer, is partnering with Kansas City, Mo.-based natural gas company Inergy Midstream to build a $1 billion pipeline to bring Marcellus Shale gas through the midstate to metro areas by 2015.

The 200-mile Commonwealth Pipeline would begin in Lycoming County and run between Harrisburg and Lancaster then crossing the Susquehanna River to York before continuing south to carry natural gas from the shale fields to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., said Peter Terranova, vice president of midstream assets and services at UGI Energy Services. The pipeline also would serve Philadelphia.

Construction could begin in 2014 and be completed by the summer of 2015, Terranova said. The project still needs state and federal regulatory approvals, he said.

The pipeline would add a significant number of jobs in construction trades during construction and to the energy companies after completion for maintenance and operation, but Terranova said he didn’t have estimates.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – Houston-based natural gas company wants to build a pipeline that could move so-called shale gas into Georgia by late 2015. Spectra Energy said recently the pipeline would start at an existing interstate pipeline connection in Tennessee and then run 230 miles through parts of Alabama and Georgia, coming near Atlanta, before connecting with another pipeline in the east.

Spectra, which extracts, stores and distributes natural gas, has signed nonbinding letters of intent with companies including Atlanta-based AGL Resources to consider business opportunities with the pipeline, formally called the Rennaissance Gas Transmission Project.

AGL Resources transports natural gas from interstate pipelines to residents and businesses. Consumers in Georgia get their natural gas from one of the state’s 10 marketers, who buy it from AGL.

“Any project that increases the supply of natural gas into Georgia is potentially good for our customers,” an AGL Resources spokeswoman said. It’s too early to tell what impact the pipeline could have on prices charged by marketers, who pay interstate pipeline charges based on their contracted market share of the pipeline. Customers would not see an effect until the pipeline is operating.

Spectra must secure contracts with marketers and utilities to ensure enough demand for natural gas before it begins seeking federal and state environmental and safety approvals, which would take at least two years. With ample supplies and currently low costs, natural gas is increasing in use, especially as utilities such as Georgia Power prepare to close some coal-fired units to comply with environmental rules.The development of shale gas — natural gas formed from being trapped in fine-grained sedimentary shale rock — is prompting new production and pipeline projects.

While many environmental groups prefer the use of natural gas over coal, the use of hydraulic fracking, in which chemicals are pumped deep underground to force out shale gas, has drawn controversy.

“Shale gas is not necessarily a clean energy solution,” said Colleen Kiernan, Georgia Sierra Club chapter director. “This development is disappointing, and we will definitely watch it as it progresses.” AGL has two distribution subsidiaries — Atlanta Gas Light and Chattanooga Gas — that operate near the proposed pipeline. Those companies could agree to a contract for the rights to all or part of the pipeline in that area, for example.

Spectra is seeking contracts for the gas carried by the proposed pipeline through March 30. Atlanta Gas Light’s last major pipeline project was finished in November 2009. The Magnolia pipeline included using part of Atlanta Gas Light’s distribution pipeline to have a firm path into metro Atlanta from Elba Island.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – Enbridge Energy Company, Inc. is proposing to build the Flanagan South Pipeline Project – a nearly 600-mile, 30-inch diameter interstate crude oil pipeline that will originate in Flanagan, Ill. and terminate in Cushing, Okla., crossing Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. The majority of the pipeline will parallel Enbridge’s existing Spearhead crude oil pipeline right-of-way. Enbridge has also proposed to install seven pump stations including one at the Flanagan terminal and six along the pipeline route. Pipeline capacity will be determined at the conclusion of the Open Season that began January 4, 2012 and concludes at 12 p.m., February 10, 2012. Pending regulatory approval, Enbridge is planning to begin construction in mid-2013 and place the pipeline in-service in mid-2014.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – Plans to construct a $220 million pipeline that will transport gasoline and diesel from the Valero St. Charles Refinery in Norco to a pipeline hub 139 miles away in Mississippi are on track to begin this summer, company officials said last week. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, a Houston pipeline transportation and energy storage company that has about 550 employees in Louisiana, announced last September that it would build and operate the pipeline in a joint venture with Valero Energy Corp.

The proposed pipeline, which is still pending approval from the state Department of Natural Resources, is slated to travel northeast from Norco, crossing Lake Pontchartrain and continuing northward into Walthall County, Miss.

The companies are seeking to build a 16-inch pipeline that will transport the fuel to a pipeline transportation hub in Collins, Miss., which Kinder Morgan operates and owns a majority stake in. From there, refined petroleum products will be transported by pipeline systems that serve major markets in the southern United States.

The pipeline, expected to be in service by 2013, will have an initial capacity of 110,000 barrels per day, with the ability to expand to more than 200,000 barrels per day. The anticipated impact in the Louisiana coastal zone, a 5.3 million-acre area that includes 40 percent of the nation’s coastal wetlands, involves the excavation of about 24 acres of wetlands and uplands and 38 acres of water bottoms.

Construction costs for the pipeline are expected to reach $140 million in Louisiana, which could boost local sales tax revenue by about $3.3 million, according to estimates from Kinder Morgan. About $80 million in additional construction costs are slated for Mississippi. Overall, the project is expected to generate 1,200 temporary jobs at its peak.

INDUSTRY NEWS (City, ST) – Enterprise Products Partners L.P. , Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P.,  and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation  recently announced that shippers have executed long-term contracts for capacity on the Texas Express Pipeline (“TEP”) being developed by the joint venture. The shippers, which include unaffiliated shippers, have tendered 15-year, ship-or-pay transportation agreements containing volume commitments that total 232,000 barrels per day (“BPD”). The contracts also include an option provision allowing shippers to increase their volume commitment.

Originating near Skellytown in Carson County, Texas, the 20-inch diameter TEP mainline will extend approximately 580 miles to Enterprise’s natural gas liquids (“NGL”) fractionation and storage complex at Mont Belvieu, Texas, and will provide access to other third-party facilities in the area. The pipeline will provide much-needed takeaway capacity for producers in West Texas, the Rocky Mountains, southern Oklahoma and the Mid-continent area, giving them access to the largest NGL market along the Gulf Coast and the opportunity to maximize the value of their NGLs. Production from the Rockies, Permian Basin and Mid-continent will be delivered into TEP through Enterprise’s existing Mid-America Pipeline System (“MAPL”) which extends north through Oklahoma into Conway, Kansas and south into the Permian Basin.

“This joint venture with Enbridge and Anadarko brings together partners with unique and complementary strengths to provide an industry solution that addresses the need for flow assurance and market choices for producers, as well as reliable supplies of price-advantaged, natural gas-derived feedstocks to meet the increasing demand of petrochemical operators,” said Michael A. Creel, president and chief executive officer of Enterprise’s general partner. “For Enterprise, this project is a ‘bolt-on’ expansion that enhances the value of our integrated midstream network of assets, including the pipelines that will feed TEP, as well as our fractionators, storage facilities and distribution network at Mont Belvieu, which will be fed by the new pipeline.”

The joint venture also includes two new NGL gathering systems. The first will connect TEP to natural gas processing plants in the Anadarko/Granite Wash production area located in the Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma. The second NGL gathering system will connect the new pipeline to Barnett Shale natural gas processing plants located in Central Texas. Wider access to multiple production areas, in addition to a competitive transportation fee structure, makes this an attractive option for producers and natural gas processors. Enterprise will construct and operate the pipeline, while Enbridge will construct and operate the new gathering systems.

“Enbridge Energy Partners is pleased to be working with Enterprise and Anadarko on the Texas Express Pipeline, which will secure long-term access to the premium NGL market at Mont Belvieu and effectively enhance the netback to our customers,” said Mark Maki, president of Enbridge Energy Partners. “Enbridge expects that this project will be accretive to our unit holders and it exemplifies EEP’s growth strategy to further integrate our natural gas gathering and processing systems with downstream NGL infrastructure.”

Enterprise representatives are currently working with residents, landowners and community leaders along the proposed route, providing information about the project, conducting surveys and negotiating right-of-way agreements. The pipeline and related gathering systems are expected to begin service in the second quarter of 2013, subject to regulatory approvals.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Dallas, TX) – Driver Pipeline, one of the country’s most successful pipeline construction companies, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has responded aggressively to industry demand and the Company’s own success with the addition of four new management positions with the expectations of additional hiring to come in the near future. Kevin Farley, pipeline veteran and former Project Manager in Driver’s Irving office, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations. In addition, Larry Carmin has joined the Company as Gulf Coast Division Manager, along with Ronnie Melton as Station Division Manager/Estimator, and Michael Norris as Gulf Coast Business Development Manager working out of Pearland, Texas. In making the announcement, Jim Shaffer, President of Driver Pipeline, said, “Driver Pipeline’s success, symbolized by these personnel additions, is a direct result of our customers’ success and our ability to respond to their needs. We’ve made a commitment to our customers, as well as the communities we work in, and our employees to invest the time, money and infrastructure necessary to be successful, and that’s just what we’ve done.” The focus of Driver’s personnel expansion is on experience and proven success. New Senior Vice President of Operation Kevin Farley is a twenty-year pipeline veteran who began his career as a Welders Helper in 1990 and has progressed through the ranks to become one of the most accomplished Project Managers in the industries. His wide-ranging experience in areas such as fabrication and installation of new construction for pipelines, meter stations, dehy stations, and compressor stations are expected to be important assets in his new leadership role at Driver Pipeline.

Newly appointed Gulf Coast Division Manager Larry Carmin has also spent his entire career in the pipeline industry. A native of Oklahoma, Larry’s experience focuses on both pipeline and compressor station construction. His management skills are concentrated on larger planning and site layouts projects. Having worked as both vendor and customer, Larry brings a unique, hands-on prospective to both the planning and execution of major projects. Ronnie Melton, new Station Division Manager/Estimator, joined Driver Pipeline in 2011 as a superintendent and quickly rose to station manager. As a certified land and right-of-way agent, Ronnie provides the broad range of experience demanded of the modern Station Division Manager. His Permian Basin roots have provided him with both compressor and meter station experience, as well as liquid and natural gas pipelines experience. Michael “Mike” Norris, Driver Pipeline’s new Gulf Coast Business Development Manager, is a customer-oriented manager with a keen eye for detail. Mike’s greatest asset may be that he understands that the Company’s success is a direct result of its customers’ successes. This Louisiana native studied finance at Louisiana State University and has a Bachelors Degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As you would expect, Mike is a people person, but just as importantly, he is a well-organized numbers guy that understands budgets and what it takes to meet those expectations. When asked about future expansion, Jim Shaffer, President of Driver Pipeline answered, “DriverPipeline is a results driven company. As long as our customers continue have great success, I am confident that growth will follow. We are pipeliners and wherever the pipeline takes us that’s where we’ll be.
It’s an exciting time in the pipeline industry, and we are proud to be part of its success.”

About the Company
Driver Pipeline is an integrated oil and gas pipeline contractor dedicated to fulfilling the energy industry’s construction, maintenance and repair needs since 1971. With more than 700 employees, the Company’s reach extends from the Atlantic Coast to beyond the Rocky Mountains and the Southern boarder of Texas. What began as a small family business serving a single customer has grown into a fully integrated oil and gas pipeline construction company known for its vast equipment fleet, talented pipeliners, “can-do” spirit and commitment to safety. For additional information contact: Dan Richardson, Driver Pipeline, 1200 N. Union Bower Rd., Irving, TX 75061, phone 713-552-2958, or visit www.driverpipeline.com

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) — PSS Companies, a leading supplier of consumable pipeline construction materials and specialty equipment for the oil and gas industry in the U.S., announces the acquisition of Pennsylvania-based North State Supply. The acquisition provides PSS Companies with a strategically located operation in the heart of the Marcellus Shale play, to help the company better serve its growing base of customers in the region. North State Supply has been a leading supplier to the industrial and pipeline construction industries for over 30 years. Similar to the recent merger of Wasatch Supply and Pipeline Supply and Service, North State Supply customers will continue to work with the same people, but will immediately experience PSS Companies benefits including greater product availability and accessibility, as well as faster product delivery. Scott Bandi, will remain General Manager as well as take an active role in future growth plans for the region.

PSS Companies Quote “North State Supply is a great fit for PSS Companies because we share the same values of providing top notch customer service through a knowledgeable staff, as well as a dedication to delivering high-quality products on time. This location is key addition to our ability to serve customers across the country quickly – it will serve as a hub for the north-east region.” – Karma Newberry, PSS Companies Vice President of Sales and Marketing

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The new pipeline would extend approximately 233 miles from the existing North Colton Terminal in Colton, San Bernardino County, California to the Bracken Junction near the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada

INDUSTRY NEWS (Dallas, TX) – The Crosstex Energy companies, Crosstex Energy, L.P. and Crosstex Energy, Inc. recently announced that the Partnership has received sufficient long-term supply commitments to proceed with the construction of its Cajun-Sibon extension, a 130-mile, 12- inch-diameter natural gas liquids (NGL) pipeline. The pipeline will extend the Partnership’s existing 440-mile Cajun- Sibon NGL system and connect Crosstex’s NGL fractionation facilities in south central Louisiana to Mont Belvieu supply pipelines in East Texas. The extension allows the Partnership to provide producers and midstream companies an attractive alternative market for their NGL production at Mont Belvieu pricing. The Partnership is currently negotiating additional long-term agreements for the remaining capacity and expects the new pipeline will begin operations at or near its initial capacity of 70,000 barrels of NGL per day.

The Partnership will begin construction in the third quarter of 2012 as scheduled. Due to strong supplier interest, the pipeline project has been expanded since it was announced in July 2011 and now includes an additional supply connection. The total capital investment is now estimated at $230 million. The new pipeline and facilities are expected to be operational in the first half of 2013.

As previously announced, the Partnership has entered into a long-term ethane sales agreement with Williams Olefins, LLC, a subsidiary of the Williams Companies, which provides a secure market for the key product in the project. The Partnership’s facilities in South Louisiana provide an attractive ethane market, as well as market access for the remaining components of the NGL barrel.

“We are pleased with the strong interest in this project,” said Barry E. Davis, Crosstex President and Chief Executive Officer. “The willingness of midstream and producer customers to make long-term commitments reflects increasing demand for fractionation and NGL handling as producers continue to pursue liquids-rich natural gas plays. We will be able to offer our customers an integrated NGL transportation, fractionation and marketing alternative to Mont Belvieu.”

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – Plains All American will build a new crude oil pipeline from a booming U.S. shale oil play to the largest U.S. oil hub at Cushing, Oklahoma, the company said on Tuesday, potentially boosting Cushing deliveries by 175,000 barrels per day (bpd).

The new line is expected to start up in mid-2013, Houstonbased Plains said. It will transport crude pumped by producer SandRidge Energy, a major acreage holder in the up-andcoming Mississippian Lime shale play, which spans Oklahoma and Southern Kansas.

The pipeline is a huge expansion of a project Plains first announced last December, known as the Medford-to-Cushing line.

Altogether, the new pipeline system will run 170 miles from near Alva, Oklahoma to Cushing, the delivery point for the NYMEX benchmark WTI crude contract. Plains earlier plans had called for a modest flow of up to 25,000 bpd into Cushing, while the planned expansion could boost Cushing-bound capacity by seven times that volume.

The Plains announcement comes at a time when many oil producers in the U.S. Midcontinent have been seeking to ship oil away from Cushing and toward regions, such as the U.S. Gulf Coast, where crude commands a hefty premium to Cushing prices.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) – Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP recently announced that its subsidiary, Boardwalk Field Services, LLC, will expand its gathering system and construct a cryogenic gas processing plant to serve producers in the Eagle Ford Shale.

This project is supported by long-term, fee-based gathering and processing agreements. The gathering expansion and processing plant are estimated to cost approximately $180 million and are expected to be placed in service during the first quarter of 2013. Boardwalk has executed a fixed-price contract with Exterran to design, manufacture and construct the processing plant and construction has commenced.

“This is a major step in the implementation of our strategy to serve the growing needs of producers in the prolific Eagle Ford Shale basin and we are pleased to have Statoil Natural Gas LLC and Talisman Energy USA, Inc, as anchor customers,” said Stan Horton, President and CEO of Boardwalk. “We have long-term processing agreements and associated gathering agreements for approximately fifty percent of the processing plant’s capacity and we are in discussions to sell the remaining gathering and processing capacity to other credit-worthy customers with longterm, fee-based agreements. Production in this rich-gas area is outpacing existing infrastructure and therefore timely execution of our South Texas expansion will fill a critical need for capacity.”

Boardwalk will add approximately 55 miles of 20″ and 24″ gathering pipeline to its existing 340-mile south Texas gathering system. Once complete, the combined pipeline system will have the capability to move in excess of 300 MMcf/d of liquids-rich gas from Karnes and Dewitt counties in the heart of the Eagle Ford play to the new Flag City processing plant. The processing plant will be located near Edna, Texas, and will have capacity to process 150 MMcf/day of natural gas. Boardwalk Field Services will also provide re-delivery of processed residue gas to a number of interstate and intrastate pipelines, including Boardwalk’s Gulf South Pipeline.

INDUSTRY NEWS (Houston, TX) Willbros Group, Inc. announced recently that a unit of its Oil & Gas segment has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction contract by Denbury Greencore Pipeline Company LLC for a CO2 compressor station adjacent to the Lost Cabin Gas Processing Plant in Fremont County, Wyoming. The compressor station is part of Denbury’s Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) efforts in Wyoming and Montana. Willbros will be responsible for the final engineering design, drafting, partial material procurement, materials management, and installation/construction of the compressor station.

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