The associated Monarch deliveries will be gathered and processed at one or more of the partnership's cryogenic processing plants in the Texas Panhandle.

Crestwood and Inergy signed definitive agreements to create a fully integrated midstream partnership with a total enterprise value of approximately $7 billion.

DCP Midstream is pushing its super system in the Midcontinent to a new level, as it works to leverage its gathering and processing footprint to grow vertically into the NGL pipeline sector.

Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. plans to construct a 150 million cubic feet (MMcf) per day cryogenic natural gas processing plant near Beckville in Panola County, Texas.

SemGroup Corp. reached an to acquire the equity interests of Mid-America Midstream Gas Services, L.L.C., which gas gathering and processing assets in the Mississippi Lime play for $300 million in cash.

CB&I won a contract from Shandong Wonfull Petrochemical Group to provide the license and processing engineering design for a first-of-a-kind solid-acid alkylation unit in China.

Uganda’s government and an international trio including the China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), France-based Total and London-based Tullow Oil has agreed to build a $4.27 billion oil refinery and export pipeline in the country.

Qatar Petroleum signed a joint venture agreement with France’s Total and Japan-based Idemitsu Kosan, Cosmo Oil, Marubeni Corp. and Mitsui to build a $1.5-billion, 146,000 barrel per day condensate refinery in Ras Laffan.

The major fractionator projects in Mont Belvieu are on schedule according to Genscape data.

Although the Mississippi Lime is still in the “discovery” stage, critical efficiencies and optimization techniques are taking hold.

M3 Midstream LLC announced that it is on track to complete the first phase of construction of its 90,000 barrel (bbl.) per day Scio, Ohio fractionation plant this summer.

Praxair signed a long-term agreement with North West Redwater Partnership to build, own and operate an air separation unit at NWR’s under-construction, gasification-based Sturgeon refinery near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

The North American liquids market growth is fast becoming the Energizer bunny of energy: it keeps going and going and going …

While the U.S. might think of itself as a shale gas pioneer, ‘the big bang might happen outside the country,’ panelist Wilczynski said.