Pembina finalizes purchase of Kakwa gas complex

Pembina Pipeline Corp., Calgary, has completed its previously announced deal for the purchase of sour gas processing properties in the Musreau area of Alberta from Paramount Resources Ltd. Source: News


Chevron signs Wheatstone domestic gas deal with Alinta

Chevron Corp. has signed its first domestic gas supply deal for the $29-billion Wheatstone LNG domestic gas project offshore Western Australia with supplier Alinta Energy. Source: News


West Texas crude system launches open season

Medallion Midstream LLC subsidiary Medallion Pipeline Co. LLC, Irving, Tex., reported a binding open season that solicits long-term shipper commitments for firm transportation capacity on the fifth major expansion of Medallion’s existing crude-oil pipeline system. Source: News


MARKET WATCH: NYMEX crude oil price jumps more than $1/bbl as May contract expires

Light, sweet crude prices for May delivery rose more than $1/bbl on the New York market Apr. 20, which was the last day of trading for that futures contract. Analysts attributed the price support to traders making short-covering transactions before the contract’s expiry and also to a weakening US dollar. Source: News


Chevron inks deal for sale of Hawaii refinery, downstream assets

Chevron Corp. subsidiary Chevron USA Inc. has entered a deal for the sale of its 54,000-b/d Kapolei, Ha., refinery on the island of Oahu and other associated Hawaiian downstream assets to Island Energy Services LLC, a subsidiary of One Rock Capital Partners LP, New York. Source: News


Senate approves broad bipartisan energy bill in an 85-12 vote

The US Senate passed broad bipartisan energy legislation that would facilitate approvals of liquefied natural gas export projects while promoting more alternative and renewable energy resource development. S. 2012, which Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) introduced in September, now heads to conference with the US House, which passed its own energy bill, […]