Pipeline Updates of Interest, Selected

Link to Oil & Gas Journal here, re: ONEOK, update:

Data points:

• ONEOK announces "open season" for previously announced Bakken Crude Express Pipeline
• 1,300 mile crud oil pipeline
• from Williston Basin to Cushing hub
• 200,000 bopd
• construction to begin in early 2014; completion by mid-2015

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Link to Oil & Gas Journal, re: Alliance natural gas pipeline, North Dakota:

Data points (some numbers rounded)

• Alliance Pipeline gets FERC approval
• 80-mile pipeline from Tioga, ND; ties in with Alliance mainline in ND --> Chicago
• natural gas; certified for 100 million cfd; underpinned with Hess contract for 60 million cfd
• pipeline is expandable; should be complete by summer, 2013
• Alliance Pipeline system in operation since 2000; 2,300 mile integrated Canadian and US high-pressure gas transmission pipeline system
• from Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and Williston Basin to Chicago
• delivers an average of 1.6 billion cfd

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Link to Oil & Gas Journal re: Marcellus ethane to Europe, a first, much more to the story than the few data points below:

Data points:

• Ineos Europe AG, Switzerland, will ship ethane from Marcellus to Europe
• through Sunoco-operated Mariner East pipeline
• still requires FERC approval of the Mariner East pipeline