State-owned Ecopetrol SA has postponed further activities related to a more than $3-billion project designed to modernize and increase crude processing capacity to 300,000 b/d at its 250,000-b/d Barrancabermeja refinery in Santander, Colombia. Source: News

The overall weekly US rig count is now at its lowest point in Baker Hughes Inc. data that begins in the 1940s, and perhaps since the infancy of US oil and gas industry in the mid-19th century. Source: News

Cutbank Ridge Partnership (CRP), a venture of Encana Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp. subsidiary Cutbank Dawson Gas Resources Ltd., has approved Veresen Midstream LP’s plan to expand natural gas processing capacity in the Dawson Creek area of northeastern British Columbia’s Montney resource play. Source: News

Expansion of plans to regulate methane from oil and gas facilities should be viewed in the context of other initiatives by the administration of Barack Obama. Source: News

Williams Partners LP expects to begin construction in May on its Hillabee natural gas pipeline expansion project, recently approved by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The first phase of the project is expected to go into service in May 2017. Source: News