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Minnesota House Bill Would Let Enbridge Pipeline Replacement Project Skirt Regulator

April 7, 2017

From AP

Republican lawmakers advanced legislation Thursday that would allow a Canadian energy company to bypass regulatory hurdles and build a $7.5 billion replacement for an existing oil pipeline in Minnesota.

It was part of a larger …

April 10, 2017 - 12:59 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, MLP News

Noble Midstream Partners and Plains All American Close Delaware Basin Acquisition

Noble Midstream Partners LP (ticker: NBLX) and Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (ticker: PAA) announced the completion of the Advantage Pipeline, L.L.C. acquisition for $133 million through a newly formed 50/50 joint venture. Noble Midstream contributed $66.5 million of cash, …

April 10, 2017 - 11:36 am Energy News, MLP News

American Midstream Partners Places Midla Natchez Pipeline in Service

American Midstream Partners, LP (ticker: AMID) announced that one of its subsidiaries has received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to place the Midla Natchez Pipeline into service. Approval to construct the Pipeline was granted in December 2015. The …

April 10, 2017 - 11:31 am Energy News, MLP News

Enable Midstream Announces Pipeline Expansion Serving Anadarko Basin Volume Growth

Enable Midstream Partners, LP (ticker: ENBL) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Enable Gas Transmission, LLC (ticker: EGT), has entered into a 205,000 Dth/d firm natural gas transportation agreement with Newfield Exploration Company (ticker: NFX), a top producer in the growing …

April 10, 2017 - 11:27 am Energy News, MLP News

Enterprise Products Partners to Build Ethylene Storage, Pipeline Projects

From Houston Business Journal

Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP (ticker: EPD) has announced two projects centered around the Houston-area’s midstream ethylene infrastructure.

The first is a modification to one of its existing storage facilities, according to a press release. Enterprise …

April 10, 2017 - 11:21 am Energy News, MLP News
Sunoco Sells 1,110 Stores to 7-Eleven for $3.3 Billion

Sunoco Sells 1,110 Stores to 7-Eleven for $3.3 Billion

Sunoco refocuses on selling wholesale gasoline

Sunoco LP (ticker: SUN) announced the sale of 1,108 convenience stores to Seven & i Holdings Co today, in a transaction valued at approximately $3.3 billion. This transaction implies a value of $2.98 million …

Williams Partners’ Transco Pipeline Seeks FERC Approval for Northeast Supply Enhancement Project

Williams Partners L.P. (ticker: WPZ) announced that Transco has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seeking authorization for its Northeast Supply Enhancement project, which would create 400,000 dekatherms per day of incremental firm transportation capacity to markets …

April 3, 2017 - 11:58 am Energy News, MLP News

Energy Transfer Equity Invests $300 Million in Sunoco LP through Preferred Equity Private Placement

Sunoco LP (ticker: SUN) and Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (ticker: ETE) announced the completion of a private placement of $300 million in SUN preferred equity to ETE.

Distributions on the new SUN Series A Perpetual preferred units issued to ETE …

April 3, 2017 - 11:52 am Energy News, MLP News

Tallgrass Energy Partners Acquires Approximate 25 Percent Interest in Rockies Express Pipeline

Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (TEP) announced today that it has acquired an additional 24.99 percent membership interest in Rockies Express Pipeline LLC (“REX”) from Tallgrass Development, LP for cash consideration of $400 million effective March 31, 2017. The acquisition increases …

April 3, 2017 - 11:47 am Energy News, MLP News

Buckeye Partners Plans New Permian-to-Corpus Christi Pipeline

Buckeye Partners LP (ticker: BPL) is planning a new crude oil pipeline from the Permian Basin to Corpus Christi, Texas, as part of a series of potential Texas investments the Houston-based company is pursuing.

The pipeline, which would be called …

April 3, 2017 - 11:43 am Energy News, MLP News
Sanchez Production Partners Plans 60 MMcfe/d Upgrade to Processing Capacity

Sanchez Production Partners Plans 60 MMcfe/d Upgrade to Processing Capacity

Sanchez Energy Eagle Ford acquisition drives expansion

Sanchez Production Partners (ticker: SPP) reported fourth quarter results on Friday, showing a net loss of $12.9 million, or ($1.63) per share. Full year results are earnings of $19.2 million, or $2.43 per …

Antero Midstream Has the Highest 2017 Planned Capex among Its Peers

From Market Realist

Antero Midstream Partners

Antero Midstream Partners (ticker: AM) has the highest capital spending targets among the selected peers in this series, and it expects to spend $800 million on growth projects in 2017. The partnership increased its …

March 27, 2017 - 12:05 pm Energy News, MLP News

Enbridge to cut 6 percent of its workforce

From the Houston Business Journal

Canada-based Enbridge Inc. (ticker: ENB) is terminating about 1,000 employees starting March 22.

The cuts represent about 6 percent of the company’s entire headcount, according to a statement from Enrbidge. The company has a significant …

March 27, 2017 - 12:02 pm Energy News, MLP News

Magellan Midstream Settles Splitter Deal Dispute

From Zacks

Oklahoma based pipeline operator Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (ticker: MMP) recently entered into a new fee based agreement with commodity trader Trafigura Trading LLC for the use of its Corpus Christi condensate splitter. This will settle a lawsuit …

March 27, 2017 - 11:53 am Energy News, MLP News

Tesoro, Western Refining stockholders approve $6.4 billion merger

From the San Antonio Business Journal

Stockholders of both Tesoro Corp. (ticker: TSO) and Western Refining Inc. (ticker: WNR) voted to approve Tesoro’s acquisition of and merger with Western.

At separate stockholder meetings, Tesoro stockholders approved issuing common stock for …

March 27, 2017 - 11:48 am Energy News, MLP News
After 8 1/2 Years, the Keystone XL Finally Gets the Green Light

After 8 1/2 Years, the Keystone XL Finally Gets the Green Light

Mar. 24, 2017:  TransCanada receives Presidential Permit to move forward with Keystone XL pipeline construction

After enduring more than eight years of permitting hell, topped at the seven-year mark with a flat rejection by President Obama’s State Department, today TransCanada …

Kinder Morgan Launches Open Season on Gulf Coast Express NatGas Pipe from Permian to Gulf Coast

Kinder Morgan Launches Open Season on Gulf Coast Express NatGas Pipe from Permian to Gulf Coast

Pipeline will provide route to export Permian’s gas to Mexico and ship as LNG

Kinder Morgan, Inc. (ticker: KMI) has announced the start of a non-binding open season for firm natural gas transportation service on its proposed Gulf Coast Express …

Enable Midstream Announces Open Seasons for Oklahoma System Expansion Projects

Enable Midstream Partners, LP (ticker: ENBL) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Enable Gas Transmission, LLC (ticker: EGT) and Enable Oklahoma Intrastate Transmission, LLC (ticker: EOIT), will each conduct a non-binding open season to solicit commitments for system expansion projects providing …

March 20, 2017 - 12:10 pm Energy News, MLP News

Enterprise Products Partners Wins Midstream Assets in Bankruptcy Auction

Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP (ticker: EPD) won an auction for a natural gas gathering and processing system out of a bankruptcy auction, according to a statement.

Enterprise is buying the system with a bid of $189 million from Dallas-based …

March 20, 2017 - 12:06 pm Energy News, MLP News

Hi-Crush Partners to Mine Dunes at Kermit

Houston-based Hi-Crush Partners LP, a provider of sand used in hydraulic fracturing, has bought a popular dune site in West Texas to boost its reserves.

Hi-Crush (ticker: HCLP) purchased the former Dunes at Kermit and is preparing the roughly 1,200-acre …

March 20, 2017 - 12:04 pm Energy News, MLP News

Spectra Energy Partner to Buy Stake in PennEast Pipeline

Spectra Energy Partners L.P. (ticker: SEP) an Enbridge Inc. ENB company has inked a purchase and sale agreement to purchase 10% equity stake from PSEG Power LLC in PennEast Pipeline Company LLC’s PennEast interstate natural gas pipeline project. PSEG Power …

March 20, 2017 - 12:00 pm Energy News, MLP News

Marathon Petroleum Corp. and MPLX LP Announce Executive Retirement

FINDLAY, Ohio, March 15, 2017 – Marathon Petroleum Corporation (ticker: MPC) and MPLX LP (ticker: MPLX) today announced the retirement of Randy S. Nickerson, executive vice president, Corporate Strategy, MPC, and executive vice president and chief commercial officer, MarkWest assets,

March 20, 2017 - 11:57 am Energy News, MLP News

Enterprise’s Seaway Crude Pipeline Shut after Cushing Spill

From Reuters:

A leak late on Sunday prompted Enterprise Products Partners to shut its Seaway Crude Pipeline system, the largest conduit for moving oil from the major storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma to Gulf coast refineries.

News of the …

March 13, 2017 - 11:27 am Energy News, MLP News

American Midstream Appoints Casadaban as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

American Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:AMID) (the “Partnership”) today announced that the general partner of the Partnership appointed Rene L. Casadaban as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer effective today. Mr. Casadaban succeeds Matthew Roland, who served as Chief Operating …

March 13, 2017 - 11:26 am Energy News, MLP News

Crestwood Midstream Announces Pricing of $500 Million Private Debt

Crestwood Midstream Partners LP (“CMLP”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crestwood Equity Partners LP (NYSE: CEQP), announced today that it has priced $500 million in aggregate principal amount of 5.75% unsecured Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”) in a private offering …

March 13, 2017 - 11:24 am Energy News, MLP News

American Midstream Partners Announces Successful Completion of Merger with JP Energy Partners

American Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:AMID) (“American Midstream” or “Partnership”) and JP Energy Partners LP (NYSE: JPEP) (“JP Energy”) today announced the successful completion of the previously announced merger.

At a special meeting of JP Energy unitholders held on March 7, …

March 13, 2017 - 11:23 am Energy News, MLP News

U.S. Refiners’ Biofuel Bill Soars to Record High as Debate Heats Up

From Reuters:

Oil refiners shelled out a record over $2 billion to meet U.S. biofuels requirements in 2016, a 70 percent surge that helps fuel a growing debate over who should shoulder the costs for meeting environmental regulations.

A …

March 13, 2017 - 11:22 am Energy News, MLP News
After Approving 7 Pipelines in 2017, FERC is Dead in the Water

After Approving 7 Pipelines in 2017, FERC is Dead in the Water

FERC is out of gas without a quorum

For years, Marcellus and Utica natural gas transportation bottlenecks have seen producers crying for more takeaway capacity to move produced natural gas out of Appalachia. And just when they started to get …

Plains All American Closes $1.2 Billion Buy

From Houston Business Journal:

Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline LP (NYSE: PAA) has closed a deal to buy additional pipeline assets in the Permian Basin.

The company finalized the $1.2 billion deal, which brought the 100,000 barrels-per-day Alpha Crude …

March 6, 2017 - 10:53 am Energy News, MLP News

MPLX LP Subsidiary Closes Purchase of Ozark Pipeline

MPLX Pipe Line Holdings LLC (MPLH), a subsidiary of MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX), today closed on a previously announced transaction, under which an affiliate of MPLH has purchased Enbridge Pipelines (Ozark) LLC’s Ozark Pipeline for approximately $220 million.

The Ozark …

March 6, 2017 - 10:49 am Energy News, MLP News