Midstream Business Magazine - January 2013
Construction Update
Feature
Getting Fit
Timing is everything when a company goes public. It pays to start preparing early to ready an organization to enter the capital markets.
Hitting A Moving Target
Pipeline operators must work rapidly right now to adopt system-wide geographic-information systems that track important data and put that data in the hands of users—even as the systems themselves rapidly change.
Low Gas Prices Support Midstream M&A Activity
Merger and acquisition activity in the midstream remains brisk but the inspiration behind those deals has changed. A new trend points to the growing importance of midstream asset divestiture as a source of funds.
Midstream’s Appalachian Spring
MarkWest’s 3 billion cubic feet per day of new capacity installed and planned is just the opening play of new work in the Marcellus midstream.
Monitoring Machine Health
Automated compressors are helping midstream leaders find plenty of operational efficiencies. It’s no surprise, then, that the equipment is becoming increasingly popular in the space.
Q and A
Energy Transfer Partners keeps getting bigger and better. Its President and Chief Operating Officer, Mackie McCrea, discusses the partnership’s success and looks forward to its promising future.
The Australian Advantage
The Land Down Under is expected to lead the world in liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports by 2020. However, international LNG domination isn’t coming easily for the country.
The Year of Déjà Vu
Standard & Poor’s analysts say the midstream will continue to face challenges with infrastructure, natural gas prices and sluggish natural gas liquids to meet the demands of an oversupplied market.