-Enterprise Products Partners on Thursday began an open season for the Bakken-to-Cushing pipeline it proposed in June. The 1,200-mile pipeline would have an initial capacity of 340,000 barrels per day. Enterprise expects the pipeline to be fully operational by the third quarter of 2017. The open season will close Oct. 17.
-Meanwhile, Williams announced the Sept. 3 start of an open season for its Transco Western Marcellus Pipeline Project to run through Sept. 29. The pipeline will transport natural gas from the Marcellus shale to supply areas as far south as Mississippi and as far north as Pennsylvania, Williams said. The pipeline’s capacity will be determined by demand, but it could reach more than 2 billion cubic feet per day. It is expected to come online in late 2018.
-Kinder Morgan also declared an open season beginning today for a proposed pipeline that would extend from the Utica shale to Ontario. The UTOPIA project entails the construction of a 240-mile NGL pipeline from Harrison County, Ohio, to Kinder Morgan’s Cochin pipeline near Riga, Mich. The product would then move eastward to Windsor, Ontario. The pipeline is expected to be in service by early 2018.
-Pembina Pipeline Corp. filed regulatory applications to build a segment of its proposed $2 billion Phase III oil pipeline expansion. The segment would extend approximately 168 miles from Pembina’s pump station in Fox Creek, Alberta, to a tie-in point in Namao Junction, Alberta. The 320,000-barrels-per-day pipeline is expected to be in service by the middle of 2017.
-Texas-based Orca LNG on Thursday filed an application with Canadian regulators to build a 24-million-tonnes-per-year LNG export facility in British Columbia. Orca hopes to begin exporting in 2019.
