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Columbia Pipeline Group plans expansion, upgrades in Marcellus and Utica natural gas shale plays
May 26, 2015 12:00 AM
By Stephanie Ritenbaugh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Columbia Pipeline Group plans to spend billions in building and upgrading infrastructure in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays to connect natural gas supply to demand.

The company, a spinoff from its Indiana parent company NiSource (NI), which is one of the largest utility companies in the country, will handle natural gas infrastructure for soaring production from the Northeast.

The separation, announced last September, will create two companies: NiSource, a fully regulated natural gas and electric utilities company with 3.4 million customers under the Columbia Gas and NIPSCO brands, and Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. (CPG), a stand-alone, publicly traded natural gas pipeline, midstream and storage company.

The separation is on track to be completed July 1, executives said in a recent conference call.

CPG expects net investment in pipeline, storage and midstream assets to grow from about $4.6 billion in 2015 to about $13.5 billion by 2020. It has about 15 projects in various stages of development expected to go into service over the next five years.

CPG will include several subsidiaries, including Columbia Transmission, which sits atop the Marcellus and Utica plays, and another dubbed Columbia Gulf, which links those shale plays to the Gulf Coast and future exports of liquefied natural gas from that area.

“In addition to having a system that is in the right place at the right time, CPG has a rock-solid core business that produces highly predictable and stable cash flows that are based on long-term fee-based contracts with a high quality, diverse customer base,” said Glen Kettering, CPG’s CEO in the conference call earlier this month.

Production from the Appalachian Basin has surged over the last five years, now accounting for almost 40 percent of total U.S. shale gas production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Marcellus production increased from 2 billion cubic feet per day in 2010 to 15 Bcf/d in July, the EIA said.

“If you fast-forward five years to the end of the decade, the consensus is that the production from these regions will be in excess of 25 Bcf/d,” said Mr. Kettering.

“It's the catalyst for the very significant investment cycle we're currently participating in.”

In terms of pathways out of the Appalachian Basin, the Columbia Gulf system spanning from West Virginia to Louisiana “has proven to be one of, if not the pipeline of choice,” Mr. Kettering said. “By the fourth quarter of 2017, all three of Columbia Gulf high-pressure, large-diameter trunk lines will have become bi-directional providing almost 2 Bcf/d of uplift capacity to the South.”

By the same time in 2018, additional upgrades will create another 1 Bcf/d of capacity on the system, he added.

Among the recent slate of projects in Western Pennsylvania, the company placed into service the Big Pine system in 2013, which is anchored by natural gas producers XTO Energy Inc, Range Resources and Penn Energy.

“In light of the increased customer demand for capacity in this area, we are currently expanding the Big Pine system and we expect to have additional expansions in the future,” Mr. Kettering said.

Another system in southwestern Pennsylvania is planned, which will take about 1 Bcf/d of dry natural gas to the interstate pipeline grid by 2016. The project is expected to cost about $275 million to $300 million “with future expansions likely,” he said.

When the companies officially separate in July, CPG will operate more than 15,000 miles of natural gas transmission pipelines, nearly 300 billion cubic feet of underground natural gas storage working capacity, and a portfolio of midstream and related facilities.

CPG will be based in Houston and is expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CPGX."

Stephanie Ritenbaugh: sritenbaugh@post-gazette.com or 412-263-4910
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MarkWest Announces Major Expansion of Processing and Fractionation Infrastructure in Butler County, PA
August 26, 2014

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 2014-- MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MWE) (“MarkWest” or “the Partnership”) announced today a major expansion of midstream infrastructure at its Keystone complex in Butler County, Pennsylvania, to support growing rich-gas production from the Marcellus Shale and Upper Devonian formations. The expansion will be supported by new agreements with Rex Energy Corporation (NASDAQ: REXX) (“Rex Energy”) and EdgeMarc Energy (“EM Energy”). As part of these agreements, MarkWest will construct Bluestone III and IV, both of which are 200 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) plants that are expected to begin operations during the fourth quarter of 2015 and the second quarter of 2016, respectively. In addition, the Partnership will construct 40,000 barrels per day (Bbl/d) of additional de-ethanization capacity and over 20,000 Bbl/d of additional propane and heavier NGL fractionation capacity.

The Keystone complex currently consists of the Bluestone processing and fractionation complex and the Sarsen processing facility which combined currently provide 210 MMcf/d of processing capacity and 26,500 Bbl/d of fractionation capacity. The Keystone complex is anchored by Rex Energy and in May 2014, MarkWest began operations of the 120 MMcf/d Bluestone II plant and 10,000 Bbl/d each of ethane and propane plus fractionation capacity to continue supporting Rex Energy’s growing rich-gas production. In addition to the new Bluestone processing and fractionation plants, the Partnership completed a 32 mile purity ethane pipeline connecting the Bluestone facility to Sunoco’s Mariner West pipeline project.

In conjunction with additional processing and fractionation infrastructure, MarkWest continues to develop its rich-gas gathering system throughout Butler County and surrounding areas in order to support the growth of its producer customers’ production.

“Our expansion of the Keystone complex is very strategic to producer activity in Beaver, Butler and surrounding counties and we are very excited to continue building our strong relationship with Rex and begin supporting EdgeMarc,” stated Frank Semple, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of MarkWest. “Since our acquisition of the Keystone assets over two years ago, volumes continue to increase significantly and we are leading the development of full-service midstream services in the highly prospective rich-gas areas of the northwest Marcellus.”

MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. is a master limited partnership engaged in the gathering, processing and transportation of natural gas; the gathering, transportation, fractionation, storage and marketing of natural gas liquids; and the gathering and transportation of crude oil. MarkWest has a leading presence in many unconventional gas plays including the Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, Huron/Berea Shale, Haynesville Shale, Woodford Shale and Granite Wash formation.

This press release includes “forward-looking statements.” All statements other than statements of historical facts included or incorporated herein may constitute forward-looking statements. Actual results could vary significantly from those expressed or implied in such statements and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Although MarkWest believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, MarkWest can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that affect operations, financial performance, and other factors as discussed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Among the factors that could cause results to differ materially are those risks discussed in the periodic reports filed with the SEC, including MarkWest’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. You are urged to carefully review and consider the cautionary statements and other disclosures made in those filings, specifically those under the heading “Risk Factors.” MarkWest does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement except as required by law.



Source: MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P.

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  • NEXUS says southern pipeline route is no-go

  • Building the NEXUS pipeline across southern Stark County wouldn't lessen the project's impact on people and the environment.

  • Shane Hoover
    CantonRep.com staff writer

    Posted Jun. 17, 2015 at 11:36 PM

    GREEN
    So says NEXUS Gas Transmission in a new filing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Officials in Green and Lake Township disagree.
    Spectra Energy and DTE Energy — the companies behind NEXUS — want to build the 36-inch pipeline from Kensington in Columbiana County to Michigan. The pipeline would carry 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day to customers in Ohio, Michigan and Canada. The $2 billion project is slated to begin operating by November 2017.
    As proposed by NEXUS planners, the pipeline would cross 20 miles of Stark County, including Washington, Nimishillen, Marlboro and Lake townships. It also would cross the city of Green in Summit County.
    In March, FERC asked NEXUS planners to study alternate pipeline routes, including one filed by the city of Green that would move the pipeline to southern Stark County by following the paths of other pipelines.
    The reroute would lengthen the NEXUS pipeline by 10 miles, but it would decrease the number of homes, businesses and schools near the pipeline, city officials said. It also would mean no pipeline in Green or northern Stark County.
    In paperwork filed this week with FERC, NEXUS planners acknowledge Green’s reroute would cross fewer railroads and streets, and come near fewer homes during construction.
    But the city’s proposal needs several reroutes of its own to avoid obstacles and would cost $28 million more to build.
    NEXUS also would have to move a planned compressor station and build some 50 miles of lateral pipeline to connect the mainline to Ohio customers, according to the filing.
    Other alternate routes through southern and eastern Stark County also are unsuitable, NEXUS told FERC.
    Wayne Wiethe, Green’s Planning Director, said the city is combing through the NEXUS paperwork and likely will file a response with FERC.
    Wiethe asked why NEXUS couldn’t use existing pipelines to deliver gas to Ohio customers rather than building new lateral pipelines.
    He also noted inaccuracies in the socioeconomic profile NEXUS planners wrote on Green. For example, the paperwork filed with FERC incorrectly says the city doesn’t have campgrounds or hotels.
    “It’s truly not fair that someone should have to go in and correct all of the misinformation that’s there,” Wiethe said.
    ANOTHER CHANGE STUDIED
    NEXUS is considering a route change around Dotwood Street NW in Lake Township and the Green Soccer Association fields and Portage Lakes Career Center in Green.
    Building the pipeline under Dotwood Street won’t work because of existing utilities and First Energy has indicated it won’t let NEXUS build the pipeline between two transmission lines in the area, according to the NEXUS filing with FERC.
    The alternate route NEXUS is studying would pass through forested and residential areas, including Bletchley Avenue NW in Lake Township, and the northern of akron canton airport

Here's why Utica shale heavyweight MarkWest keeps growing

Jun 19, 2015, 12:41pm EDT


MarkWest's Cadiz complex.



MarkWest Energy Partners LP has 18 projects under construction in the three-state Appalachian region that makes up the Utica and Marcellus shale plays.

While oil and gas drillers are reining in activity in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, the Denver-based natural gas midstream company (NYSE:MWE) is ramping up activity.


processing,” he said.

I personally know a couple of landowners who were approached by NEXUS (one was today). They are in Stark county in Nimishillen twp off of rt.62 between Louisville and Alliance

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