Train Explosion Exposes Risks Of Rising Urban Oil Shipments
A growing number of North American communities are exposed to risks of derailments and spills from trains carrying crude oil as rising production increases rail shipments across the continent and...
View ArticleThe Many Winners Of The 'Great Pipeline Race'
As any American following the Keystone XL pipeline saga knows, finding new energy reserves sometimes is the easy part, while getting the stuff to the folks who want it can be like the fifth labor of...
View ArticleState Department Admits It Doesn't Know Keystone XL's Exact Route
The State Department's decision to hand over control to the oil industry to evaluate its own environmental performance on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has led to a colossal oversight....
View ArticleMichigan Pipeline Faces New Scrutiny After Unreported Spill
ETHANOL : A Milwaukee engine maker is retailing a new fuel additive that it says can solve some of the problems ethanol can cause in small engines. Ethanol producers say the company, Briggs ......
View ArticleControlled Natural Gas Flaring Completed In Swift Current
Swift Current residents had been advised of a flaring of natural gas by TransGas for two days last week. TransGas, the pipeline subsidiary of SaskEnergy, conducted a series of controlled flares of...
View ArticleWill Train Derailment Bolster Case For Oil Pipelines?
Oil deliveries by rail have increased along with North American crude oil production. In a tit-for-tat season of pipeline and rail incidents, including the recent Quebec train fire, it's becoming clear...
View ArticleKeystone Pipeline Could Get Boost Following Canadian Train Accident
Proponents of the Keystone XL Pipeline have noted that a rejection of the project by the Obama administration would likely mean additional crude oil transported by rail, and hence a heightened risk of...
View ArticleLegislation To Speed Up Gas Pipeline Permitting Moving In US House
A House panel is considering legislation aimed at speeding up federal approval of permits for natural gas pipelines, an effort to help the burgeoning industry increase distribution and to reduce...
View ArticleAlaska Unveils New Plan To Explore For Oil In Wildlife Refuge
The state collects fees from oil and gas produced on state land, as well as oil shipped through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, or TAPS, which stretches 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, where it...
View ArticleLong Islanders Sound Off On LNG Port Proposal
Liberty Natural Gas is seeking a license for a deep-water fuel import facility-a ship anchored at sea called Port Ambrose that would be linked to a 22-mile pipeline connected to LI through Long Beach....
View ArticleMAPL Receives Rockies NGL Expansion Approval
Enterprise Mid America Pipeline (MAPL) has received approval from the US Bureau of Land Management to construct the 234-mile Western Expansion Pipeline III (WEP III) natural gas liquids project.
View ArticleExxon Submits Spill Report, But Kept Under Seal
ExxonMobil has submitted a report to federal regulators on a pipeline rupture that dumped an estimated 150,000 gallons of crude oil in a Mayflower neighborhood but the contents of the report are being...
View ArticleOil Pipeline, Long Submerged In Michigan's Deep Waters, Fuels Public Concern
The Oil and Water Don't Mix rally convenes at noon at Bridge View Park, immediately north of the Mackinac Bridge. Bill McKibben, a leading environmental activist and founder of 350.org, is the keynote...
View ArticleRemotely Operated Vehicles Repairing NELHA's 40-Inch Deep-Seawater Pipe
Eric Crumpton observed something unexpected when he began replacing bridles and anchor chains on a portion of the deepwater pipeline at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority last month....
View ArticleQuebec Tragedy Unlikely To Slow Oil Shipments Via Rail
With production surging in North Dakota and western Canada, and no major pipelines connecting the oil fields to coastal refineries, there are few alternatives to rail to help meet the demand for...
View ArticleExxonMobil Releases Cause Of Mayflower Oil Spill
ExxonMobil has released the cause of the oil spill in Mayflower earlier this year. Exxon says the manufacturer of the Pegasus Pipeline is to blame for the spill....
View ArticleTOTE's Conversion To LNG On Track
The prospect of an LNG pipeline and increased access to the fuel in Alaska has prompted some in the trucking industry to look into using LNG-powered semis as a lower-cost fuel alternative to diesel....
View ArticleBattle Rages Over Obama's Climate Standards For Keystone XL Pipeline
Two weeks after President Obama said he would support the proposed Keystone XL pipeline only if it "does not significantly exacerbate" greenhouse-gas emissions, the political battle over how to define...
View ArticleEgypt To Resume Gas Supplies To Jordan Within 10 Days
Jordan has said that gas supplies from Egypt are to resume within 10 days, following sabotage to the export pipeline by militants in the Sinai Peninsula, AFP has reported. "The Egyptian authorities are...
View ArticleEnbridge Restarts Line 37 Pipeline, Returns Athabasca Pipeline To Full Service
The Company also has a significant and growing involvement in natural gas gathering, transmission and midstream businesses, and an increasing involvement in power transmission....
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