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Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on June 21, 2015 at 10:51am

Good thread Trapper, nice info.

Last Saturday, the Pittsburgh Trib had a good article by David Conti on new pipelines ;

http://triblive.com/business/headlines/8526400-74/pennsylvania-gas-...

To take a stab at addressing those concerns, Wolf is forming a task force, led by Quigley, that will look for ways to get pipes in the ground more quickly while easing community concerns and limiting potential consequences. It has support from industry and environmental advocates.

It listed over 1000 miles of pipelines.

It also discussed how the state and companies are working to streamline and shorten the approval process. The companies are working with the state to use existing ROW with old lines, power lines, state highways.  They are also working closer with local officials and landowners earlier in the process.

Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 21, 2015 at 5:34pm

Companies have proposed or are building thousands of miles of pipelines to carry gas and natural gas liquids from Pennsylvania shale fields. Some of the largest projects that are planned or received government approval to proceed include:

• Texas Gas Pipeline Co.'s Line 300 Expansion, 129 miles in Pennsylvania and New Jersey

• Dominion's Appalachian Gateway Project, 107 miles in Pennsylvania and West Virginia

• Constitution Pipeline, 124 miles in New York and Pennsylvania

• Atlantic Sunrise, 197 miles in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina

• Rover Pipeline, 711 miles in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia

• National Fuel and Empire Pipeline's Northern Access 2016, 100 miles in New York and Pennsylvania

• Mariner East, 2, 350 miles in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia




Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on June 21, 2015 at 10:24pm
Not enough.

More to it than marketing to foreign flags (albeit important).
Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 22, 2015 at 3:30pm

Cracker or no cracker, Beaver County property owners are at least $27 million richer as a result of Royal Dutch Shell’s land grab over the past two years.

Shell Oil Co., a division of the Dutch petrochemical giant, finally closed its much anticipated purchase of the former Horsehead zinc smelter in Potter. The price on the deed was $13.5 million, although the company is not commenting on the actual amount of money that changed hands.

Shell also has bought 12 other properties in the area totaling $13.8 million. Those purchases ranged from a high of $5 million for a 100-acre site on Frankfort Road to $10 each for two parcels bought from the Beaver County Economic Development Authority.

The two county properties, with about 60 acres between them, had a combined fair market value of more than $1 million, according to the deeds.

Although work at the site progresses, Shell has not yet made a final decision about building the ethane cracker — a multibillion complex to turn Marcellus Shale natural gas liquids into feedstock for chemical production.

The company said it will not make a decision until it has certain environmental permits in hand, most notably the air quality permit it has sought from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. A public hearing on the permit was held last month.

Shell has estimated the cracker plant would create “thousands of construction jobs” in addition to 400 to 500 operational positions.

Site of the plant.
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Nevertheless, since Shell signed its first land option agreement with Horsehead Holdings Corp. in 2012 — it extended the option three times — Pennsylvanians have been reading the tea leaves of every property purchase, permit filing and public meeting to gauge which way the company is leaning.

The money spent by Shell so far, while significant by county standards, is less than a drop in the bucket for the multinational, whose revenue last year was about $460 billion.

Shell’s investment in property in Beaver County, as chronicled in deed transfers, is the equivalent of a person who makes $50,000 a year spending $3 as a deposit on something that may or may not materialize.

“It’s wonderful that they’ve gone ahead and purchased the property but are we going to wait another three years for an announcement that they’re going to go ahead?” said R.T. Walker, vice president at CBRE, a real estate firm.

Mr. Walker questioned the $13.5 million price tag recorded in the deed for the Horsehead property, which he valued between $75 million and $100 million.

No other major land deals are expected from Shell at this point.

“We’ve acquired the land that we need to proceed with the continued site evaluation,” said Kayle Macke, a Shell spokeswoman. “This was land needed to advance the permitting process.”

The fall in crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids prices in the past year has tempered excitement for cracker projects, several of which have been put on hold or canceled in other parts of the country.

Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 22, 2015 at 3:37pm

Overcoming what might be Royal Dutch Shell's most significant regulatory hurdle, the oil and chemicals giant has been granted an air permit by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for a potential petrochemical complex in Beaver County.

The company has been mulling a cracker plant to turn ethane found in Appalachian shales into a building block for plastics and other products since 2012. Although it has spent millions of dollars in property acquisitions in Beaver County and funded the demolition of the former Horsehead Holdings Corp. zinc smelter, Shell has yet to make its final decision to build.

That decision could not come without having major environmental permits in hand, the company has previously stressed.

The DEP announced today that along with the air permit, Shell also got its stormwater discharge permit and a water obstruction and encroachment permit.

Kayla Macke, a spokeswoman for Shell, called the air permit a “critical milestone for the project ... that allows Shell to proceed with some preliminary site development work.”

“This preliminary work would allow Shell to maintain or accelerate the project schedule, if we decide to build the facility,” she said.

In the meantime, the company has yet to finalize engineering and design work for the plant and is working to get more ethane suppliers in its feedback portfolio, Ms. Macke said.

Last week, Shell closed its much anticipated purchase of zinc smelter site in Potter. The price on the deed was $13.5 million, although the company is not commenting on the actual amount of money that changed hands.

Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 22, 2015 at 11:07pm
Proposed pipeline would connect Ohio's Utica shale to the Texas Gulf Coast
Would have maximum capacity of more than 400,000 barrels a day
by WKSU's LAUREN BLUE
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The proposed $4 billiion project would transport oil and natural gas produced in Ohio.
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Houston based energy company Kinder Morgan is proposing a pipeline that would connect Ohio’s Utica Shale to the Texas Gulf Coast.

The proposed $4 billion project would transport oil and natural gas produced in Ohio. Editor of Midstream Business Magazine Paul Hart says companies are looking for ways to transport oil and gas to ensure drilling here is profitable.

 




"The problem is that you’ve had a number of companies that have come in and drilled wells they have production that is ready to go to customers. How do you get it out of there? You have to have some way to move it to market," Hart says.

Hart says Kinder Morgan needs to gauge customer interest before building the pipeline. It
Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 22, 2015 at 11:20pm

Energy Transfer (ETP) Announces Details of Revolution Project - Analyst Blog

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unveiled the details of its earlier announced Revolution Project. The project is expected to augment the partnership's operations in the Marcellus and Upper Devonian production areas of Western Pennsylvania. 

Energy Transfer added that it has signed a long-term gas gathering, processing, and fractionation contract with EdgeMarc Energy. Also, the partnership has bought about twenty miles of high pressure pipeline from EdgeMarc for the smooth functioning of the same. Additionally, Energy Transfer plans to construct a new cryogenic gas processing plant, a new fractionator and other gas gathering pipelines, which will facilitate work at the project.

The partnership anticipates the pipeline systems and the associated facilities to result in capital spending of about $1.5 billion.

Energy Transfer's 440 million cubic feet per day proposed Revolution Pipeline will originate in Butler County, PA and extend to the partnership's Revolution Plant, which will be built in Western Pennsylvania.  


This cryogenic gas processing plant is expected to come online by the second quarter of 2017. The facility will have provisions for expansion to support processing of third-party gas.

The partnership added that the residue gas from this facility will be transported to downstream markets via its Rover interstate pipeline. Natural gas liquids, on the other hand, will be delivered to the domestic and export market through the Mariner East pipeline system that is owned by the partnership's affiliate - Sunoco Logistics

. Transporting the products though its own pipelines will result in flow assurance as well as revenue benefits.

The deal also involves building a fractionation facility at Sunoco Logistics' Marcus Hook Industrial Complex in Marcus Hook, PA. This facility is also expected to commence operations by the second quarter of 2017.

Energy Transfer currently has about 85-90% of its assets under fee-based projects and this contract is another worthy addition to its portfolio. However, the company is more sensitive to commodity price volatility in comparison with other master limited partnership subgroups, which raises concern.



Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/energy-transfer-etp-announces-details...

Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 22, 2015 at 11:38pm

Pipelines Flow Toward Consolidation

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Daniel Dicker

 | Jun 22, 2015 | 3:00 PM EDT

A spectacular bid for Williams Energy (WMB) came in last night from another pipeline powerhouse, Energy Transfer Equity (ETE), for an amazing premium of 35%. The $45 billion offer was rejected by Williams, as it has been rejecting more friendly overtures from ETE for months. The takeaway from this spectacular attempt to make an even more spectacular merger is that the pipeline companies are continuing to be clear winners in every U.S. oil environment.

Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 22, 2015 at 11:57pm

Summit Midstream plans Utica Shale natural gas pipeline system

By Stephanie Ritenbaugh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette    


Dallas-based Summit Midstream Partners reached an agreement with XTO Energy Inc. to develop a Utica Shale natural gas gathering system servicing XTO’s natural gas production from Belmont and Monroe counties in southeastern Ohio.

The system will be owned and developed by a new indirect subsidiary of Summit Investments, Summit Midstream Utica, LLC.

XTO, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, will serve as the anchor shipper and has dedicated 29,000 acres to Summit Utica under a long-term, fee-based gathering agreement. Summit Utica will deliver natural gas produced by XTO into Regency Energy Partners’ Utica Ohio River Trunkline project, a 2.1 billion cubic feet per day system that’s under construction, and other downstream delivery points.

Summit Utica will consist of over 115 miles of gathering pipeline with four natural gas compressor stations and will have an initial design capacity of 500 million cubic feet per day. The $400 million project is expected to make the first deliveries to Regency Utica Ohio River in the second half of 2015.

“This development for XTO establishes Summit’s operating presence in the Utica Shale play,” said Steve Newby, president and CEO of Summit Investments.

“Additionally, this transaction increases Summit Investments’ development backlog to more than $2 billion and complements our existing Ohio gathering joint venture with MarkWest Utica EMG where we currently own a 40 percent non-operated interest.”

Summit plans to execute additional gathering agreements “with other large acreage holders in the area over the next several months,” Mr. Newby said. 

Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 23, 2015 at 12:17am

Kinder Morgan seeking drillers to supply $4 billion pipeline

22 Jun 15 | Author James Perkins | Deals, Markets & Investments
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Texas pipeline company, Kinder Morgan, is seeking drillers of natural gas to supply its proposed $4 billion Utica Marcellus Texas Pipeline project.

The open tendering for the new 1,100 mile shale product pipeline opened last week and will last until the middle of September.

The proposed pipeline will abandon and convert 964 miles of existing pipelines, which are currently operated by Kinder Morgan’s Tennessee Gas Pipeline company, to transport liquid produce from the Utica and Marcellus basins.

The plans also include the construction of a further 202 miles of 20-inch pipeline connecting Louisiana and Texas to link petrochemical plants and a dock operated by Kinder Morgan to export the materials.

Furthermore, 120 miles of new liquid pipelines are expected to be built in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and additional storage facilities.

“We are pleased to offer producers the flexibility to batch purity products for transportation to the Gulf Coast,” said Don Lindley, president of KMI’s Natural Gas Liquids, Products Pipelines.

“Repurposing the existing TGP asset provides increased optionality, reliability and market connectivity to shippers for all products and supports the increasing production growth in the [Ohio-Pennsylvania-West Virginia] basin,” he added.

The network is planned to have a capacity of 430,000 barrels per day and pending regulatory approval is set to come online in the fourth quarter of 2018

Mike MurphyPermalink Reply by Mike Murphy on June 23, 2015 at 12:23am

Increased Output in the Marcellus and Utica Shale Plays Create a High Midstream Demand in 2014 and Beyond

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays have created an oil and natural gas boom for the United States that has midstream companies who provide the processing and pipelines for these products working hard to keep up. Production of crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids has climbed significantly since oil and gas producers have begun using fracking techniques, and early projections say they will get higher even without the new technologies that should increase efficiency and raise production. Many midstream service providers are moving quickly to build and open processing and storage facilities and pipelines for transportation.

MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P.
MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. is a company that offers midstream services for producers of oil and natural gas. Midstream services include the gathering, processing and transporting of natural gas, natural gas liquids and crude oil, as well as natural gas liquid fractionation, storage and marketing. MarkWest plans to respond to the ongoing success in the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays by developing several new midstream infrastructure projects. In the final quarter of 2013, they opened three new processing plants in the Marcellus, and nine new projects were announced in the Utica to begin in 2014.

Enterprise Products Partners
Another midstream services provider for the Marcellus and Utica Shale region is Enterprise Products Partners. They are in the process of preparing to open a pipeline called the ATEX Express, which links the Marcellus and Utica Shale region to the Gulf Coast refinery complex. The ATEX Express is designed to deliver 125,000 barrels of ethane per day for use as feedstock in petrochemical production. This pipeline also connects two natural gas liquids fractionators, with plans to add two more over the next two quarters. More fractionation capacity is expected to raise the demand for NGL transportation through the ATEX Express. If the demand complies, the capacity is expected to increase to 265,000 bpd. This demand is expected because of the increasingly positive long-term projections for drilling inventory in the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays.

Kinder Morgan
Kinder Morgan also plans to develop a pipeline from the Utica Shale play. Kinder Morgan currently has many pipeline projects in the works. The pipeline for the Utica will extend 210 miles and carry natural gas products from fractionation facilities in the region to the Cochin pipeline in Michigan. The capacity of this pipeline is forecast to carry 50,000 barrels per day.

TransCanada Corporation
Exporting natural gas overseas will soon be an option, as well, as the Energy Department has begun approving permits that take effect in 2015. This is expected to increase demand for natural gas and counteract the falling prices that occurred recently due to the abundance of the supply. TransCanada Corporation’s ANR Pipeline system plans to use its Southeast Main Line (SEML) to transport gas from the Marcellus and Utica Shale region to locations in the south. ANR’s project will permit the transportation of more natural gas to the Gulf Coast to meet growing demands for natural gas in industrial projects and from recently approved liquefaction terminals that are responding to the new demand for natural gas exports.

These developments are just a few of the ways that companies are currently undertaking in order to meet the need for crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquid midstream services.

Permalink Reply by Trapper on June 23, 2015 at 12:52am
Thanks Mike! Good information that reinforces the importance of our fabulous shale plays!

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