-Navitas Midstream Partners announced plans to build the new La Bahia gas gathering and processing system in the northern Eagle Ford shale. The system will consist of a gathering line that will transport gas from Brazos County, Texas, to a new processing plant to be built in Grimes County, Texas. The processing plant will have a capacity of 120 million cubic feet per day. It is expected to be fully complete in mid-2015.
-Hiland Crude is soliciting shipper commitments to expand its 488-mile Double H crude oil pipeline currently under construction. The pipeline will stretch from Bakken shale oil producing areas near Dore, N.D., to Hiland’s tanks near Guernsey, Wyo. The pipeline is expected to begin service next month. Under the expansion, Hiland would deliver oil to connecting pipelines near Guernsey. The project would take place in phases, with 45,000 barrels per day of capacity available in the first half of 2015.
-Meanwhile, Canadian firm Enbridge Energy Partners is gauging shippers’ interest in a 120,000-barrel-per-day rail terminal in Cushing, Okla. Via the Financial Post, the terminal would handle two inbound and two outbound unit trains per day. It would be complete by the end of 2016. A company representative said there is “tremendous” interest in the terminal.
-Phillips 66 Partners and Paradigm Energy Partners agreed to form two joint ventures to develop crude transportation infrastructure in North Dakota. The two firms will own 88% of the previously announced Sacagawea Pipeline, which will transport crude from McKenzie County, N.D., to Mountrail County, N.D. That joint venture will also build a storage terminal and central delivery point for crude gathering systems in Keene, N.D. In a separate joint venture, the firms will own the Palermo Rail Terminal, which will have access to the Sacagawea Pipeline.
-Some East Coast refiners will see delayed crude deliveries as a result of the snowstorm that hit Buffalo, N.Y., this week. Via Reuters, CSX Corp. on Thursday warned its customers the storm could delay deliveries by up to 48 hours. CSX’s rail line carries crude from Chicago to Albany, N.Y., where ships then transport the oil to refineries in New Brunswick, Canada, and the Philadelphia area. Some trains bypass Albany and deliver oil to Phillips 66’s Linden, N.J., refinery and Philadelphia Energy Solutions’ refinery, among others.
