Republican committee members and several witnesses leveled some of the strongest criticism yet of the US Department of the Interior’s proposed 2017-22 Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas program at a May 19 US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. Source: News

Enterprise Products Partners LP (EPP), Houston, has commissioned a cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Eddy County, NM, along with associated gas and NGL pipelines to handle growing production of NGL-rich natural gas in the Delaware basin. Source: News

The overall US oil and gas drilling rig count recorded its smallest decline of the year thus far, shedding just 2 units—both targeting gas—to settle at 404 rigs working, according to Baker Hughes Inc. data. Source: News

Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) has recommended approval of Kinder Morgan Inc.’s Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) project. The project will add 980-km of pipeline, largely in the existing line’s corridor, boosting crude throughput from Edmonton, Alta., to Burnaby, BC, to 890,000 b/d from 300,000 b/d. Likely export destinations include Asia, California, and Washington state. […]

Timothy L. Dove, president and chief operating officer of Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, has been named president and chief executive officer of the company to succeed Scott D. Sheffield, who will retire at yearend. Source: News

Pedro Pullen Parente has been tabbed by Brazil’s acting President Michel Temer to take the role of chief executive officer of state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras). Source: News