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Crude Oil Storage Hits a Premium
All dressed up and nowhere to go. That best sums up the latest dilemma crude oil producers face as storage capacity grows more strained by the week. In response, the federal government has said “fill ‘er up” at the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, making available an initial 30 MMBbls of crude storage to be followed by another 47 MMbls of capacity, to help E&Ps find their supplies a place to land. At least for now.
Black Bear Discovers a Honey Pot
Consolidation in the midstream space continues this week with the latest news from Houston-based Black Bear Transmission, which will acquire Ozark Gas Transmission (OGT) and Ozark Gas Gathering (OGG) from a subsidiary of Canada-based Enbridge. If you’re keeping count, that’s four name drops in one sentence but hang with us as we peel back the layers.
The Money Backers: Global Infrastructure Partners
N.Y.-based Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) joins an elite group of private-equity firms that tether their investments to core infrastructure around the world. From international airports to power plants in South America and marine hubs in Australia, GIP also backs an A-list of energy players in the U.S. that operate critical bones in the oil and gas, LNG, water, wind, solar, and renewables sectors.
A Busy Quarter Ahead for Tallgrass Energy
With a growing shipper interest for expansion of the 830-mile Pony Express Pipeline, Kans-based Tallgrass Energy just announced a supplemental open season for crude oil transportation, March 16-April 14.
Crude Oil Storage Hits a Premium
All dressed up and nowhere to go. That best sums up the latest dilemma crude oil producers face as storage capacity grows more strained by the week. In response, the federal government has said “fill ‘er up” at the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, making available an initial 30 MMBbls of crude storage to be followed by another 47 MMbls of capacity, to help E&Ps find their supplies a place to land. At least for now.
Come Together: Align and Elevate Midstream
Is it surprising anymore when private-equity firms merge two of their portfolio companies building and operating midstream infrastructure in the same basin? Probably not. Better to be growing that midstream platform than stirring up competition and cannibalism in the current landscape. And so it is for Tailwater Capital, which late last year combined Dallas-based Align Midstream and Houston-based Elevate Midstream—darn near kissing cousins in the Haynesville shale play with gas gathering, treating and processing assets. Following the merge, Tailwater set Elevate free, gifting the midstreamer with a $150 million equity commitment to seek out new acquisitions and greenfield development, while Align set forth to expand the now combined-company’s footprint.
The Midship Sees Light at the End of the Pipeline
The Midship Pipeline has been a long-suffering test of wills for Houston-based Cheniere Energy now awaiting FERC approval to begin initial service. Cheniere ranks as the second largest LNG operator in the world and natural gas is its lifeblood. The 200-mile natural gas Midship, which extends from Okla.’s Anadarko Basin to Gulf-bound interconnects, hit serious roadblocks during the course of construction with delays that included last year’s monumental rains and flooding, unexpected third-party changes, and a FERC stop-work order.
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With an eye on mid-market infrastructure across the utility, energy and transportation spheres, N.Y.-based Basalt Infrastructure Partners looks for investments with “inflation linkage and high barriers to entry.” Translation: companies with predictable, long-term cash flows that typically have medium- to long-term contracts, and capital-intensive assets that limit the number of natural competitors.
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Crude Oil Storage Hits a Premium
All dressed up and nowhere to go.
That best sums up the latest dilemma crude oil producers face as storage capacity grows more strained by the week. In response, the federal government has said “fill ‘er up” at the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, making available an initial 30 MMBbls of crude storage to be followed by another 47 MMbls of capacity, to help E&Ps find their supplies a place to land. At least for now.
Black Bear Discovers a Honey Pot
Consolidation in the midstream space continues this week with the latest news from Houston-based Black Bear Transmission, which will acquire Ozark Gas Transmission (OGT) and Ozark Gas Gathering (OGG) from a subsidiary of Canada-based Enbridge. If you’re keeping count, that’s four name drops in one sentence but hang with us as we peel back the layers.
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The Midship Sees Light at the End of the Pipeline
The Midship Pipeline has been a long-suffering test of wills for Houston-based Cheniere Energy now awaiting FERC approval to begin initial service. Cheniere ranks as the second largest LNG operator in the world and natural gas is its lifeblood. The 200-mile natural gas Midship, which extends from Okla.’s Anadarko Basin to Gulf-bound interconnects, hit serious roadblocks during the course of construction with delays that included last year’s monumental rains and flooding, unexpected third-party changes, and a FERC stop-work order.
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Williams Makes All the Right Moves
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The Operators: Bluewing Midstream
Storage of crude oil and refined products has now become a Spandex-tight issue for producers in the busiest basins looking to stash their goods amid skyrocketing inventories. Pipeline companies are urging E&Ps to cut back production to not risk further man-made declines of prices. Meanwhile, midstream operators that offer storage capacity face an interesting turn of events in which one journalist summed up, “Storage tends to be a ho-hum business, until it isn’t.”
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The Money Backers: Global Infrastructure Partners
N.Y.-based Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) joins an elite group of private-equity firms that tether their investments to core infrastructure around the world. From international airports to power plants in South America and marine hubs in Australia, GIP also backs an A-list of energy players in the U.S. that operate critical bones in the oil and gas, LNG, water, wind, solar, and renewables sectors.
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Rate Case Settlements to Boost Enable’s MRT Service Revenues
The good news came this week for Okla. City-based Enable Midstream, which received FERC approval of its rate case settlements with all firm-capacity customers of the company’s Mississippi River Transmission system (MRT). In anticipation of the approval, Enable announced in February it expects 2020 revenues from MRT to increase by $7 million, or $87 million this year.
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