Gazprom Neft gas plant in Iraq undergoes performance testing

Gazprom Neft PJSC said a gas plant at Badra field in eastern Iraq is undergoing performance testing and is expected to go into commercial production in the fourth quarter. It will be able to process 1.6 billion cu m/year. Source: News

Targa lets contract to expand Permian gas processing capacity

Targa Pipeline Mid-Continent WestTex LLC, a subsidiary of Targa Resources Corp., Houston, has let a contract to KP Engineering LP (KPE), Tyler, Tex., to build a cryogenic gas processing plant in Reagan County, Tex., near Midkiff, in the Permian basin of West Texas. Source: News

MARKET WATCH: NYMEX crude oil settles back below $48/bbl before Harvey

Light, sweet crude oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell nearly $1 as market participants awaited news of the path of Hurricane Harvey, expected to make landfall in Texas. Oil prices rose in early Aug. 25 trading. Source: News

INGAA president unhappy with court ruling expanding NEPA requirements

Interstate Natural Gas Association of America Pres. Donald F. Santa expressed disappointment on Aug. 24 with the US Appeals Court for the District of Columbia’s decision days earlier to vacate the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of three Southeastern US natural gas pipelines. Source: News

Thom appointed CFO of Energy XXI Gulf Coast

Tiffany J. Thom has been named chief financial officer of Energy XXI Gulf Coast Inc. (EGC), Houston, effective Aug. 28.   Source: News

ETP sues environmental groups over Dakota Access pipeline campaign

Energy Transfer Partners has sued Greenpeace International, Earth First, and other environmental organizations opposed to construction of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline for manufacturing and materially disseminating false information about the project.  Source: News