February 2022, Vol. 249, No. 2

Plains All American’s application to build a replacement pipeline in California is entering a critical phase this year, as the state’s potential as a location for fuel infrastructure increasingly comes in conflict with efforts to curb climate change.

EIA Updates Oil Price Forecasts Through 2023, Indian Oil Investing $944 Million on Gas Sales in New Areas, Cruz’s Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Bill Fails to Pass in US Senate and more.

After a decade of consideration, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published a final rule that creates two new classes of onshore gathering lines — R and C.

US Voices Misgivings on EastMed Gas Pipeline, Greek Officials Say, Enterprise Completes Expansion of Acadian Natural Gas Pipeline, Norway’s Oil and Gas Output Expected to Rise 9% by 2024 and more.

Entering the New Year, energy sector representatives tracking developments in our nation’s capital may suffer some whiplash in working with Congress.

Germany’s RWE, one of Europe’s largest electricity and gas suppliers, signed a contract with professional services firm Jacobs to study the production and supply of green hydrogen at the Pembroke Power Station in Wales.

Electricity generation from renewables has grown considerably in Germany over the years, but plenty more is needed to fuel the country’s green hydrogen ambition.

As North Dakota’s largest processor of natural gas, ONEOK often serves as an industry bellwether for Williston Basin midstream activity, and with demand surging in 2021, the natural gas liquids major was bent on growth.

Without putting away massive amounts of carbon dioxide while awaiting renewable energy to mature commercially, there is no hope in stopping global temperature from rising beyond 1.5°C by the end of the century.

Uganda has now completed a draft bill, which, when passed into law by Parliament, will pave the way for the $3.5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline project.

Hard spots are believed to result from application of a local thermal cycle, such as localized quenching of the surface, to produce a microstructure that is different from (and harder than) the surrounding parent material.

Recent years have been scattered with natural hazard events that have destroyed property and infrastructure, devastated businesses and taken lives.

A new research study from Flow Research, Flowmeters in the Oil and Gas Industry, finds that worldwide revenues for all flowmeters sold to the oil and gas industry in 2019 totaled $1.64 billion.

CR Integrity (ICR) recently completed a crucial scope of work for Doosan Babcock on the Forties Pipeline System (FPS) shutdown project at the Cruden Bay Booster Station in Northeast Scotland.

In May 2021, the application and complexity of the piping system was named Project of the Year by the Energy Piping System Division of the Plastics Pipe Institute Inc.

API published its third edition of Standard Pipeline Control Systems Cybersecurity, underscoring the natural gas and oil industry’s ongoing commitment to protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure from malicious and potentially disruptive cyberattacks.

Neptune Energy completed a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Environmental Defense Fund to measure methane emissions on a working UK offshore platform using advanced drone technologies.

Decom Engineering Limited has consolidated a strong 2021 performance with a hat trick of international contract wins valued at more than $531,000 (£400,000).

LNG export capacity in the United States has grown rapidly since the Lower 48 states first began exporting LNG in February 2016. In 2020, the United States became the world’s third-largest LNG exporter.

In North Dakota, the rate of natural gas flaring declined to an average of 7.5% from January through September 2021.

The European Green Deal is the strategic plan to make the European Union carbon neutral by 2050. Decarbonizing the energy sector will be vital to achieving this goal, as this sector contributes significantly to Europe’s CO2 emissions.

According to industrial experts, many causes for erosion include multiphase flow with sand or without sand, droplet impingement, slurry flow, cavitation and droplet flash.

The rapid development of shale gas resources in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia has contributed to sustained low natural gas prices, and it has encouraged the construction of natural gas-fired power plants.

Performance Pipe’s PlatinumStripe 1800 Series Pipe was recently utilized to convey water from wells to a saltwater disposal facility in Desert Hills, near Orla, a small town in West Texas.

News from Sensirion, Polygon, Rockwell, Trimble, RegO and Antaira.

People   Cepak EnLink Midstream appointed Tiffany (TJ) Thom Cepak to its board of directors. Cepak previously served as the chief financial officer of Energy XXI Gulf Coast, KLR Energy Acquisition and its successor, Rosehill Resources, and EPL Oil & Gas. C..

Companies   KTN Becomes Full Member of ROSEN Group   KTN AS, which has worked closely over the past five years with the ROSEN Group to provide in-line inspection (ILI) services for challenging pipelines, has become a full member of the ROSEN Group to provide its portfolio of services under the ROS..

Associations   The American Petroleum Institute (API) announced the publication of a first-edition standard providing a framework for pipeline operators to develop a comprehensive pipeline facility integrity management program to strengthen efficiencies, prevent incidents and further reduce greenho..

These are interesting times in midstream, and it’s going to take some collective courage, creativity and calculated investment to make sure “interesting” refers to opportunities seized rather than the ominous outcomes the old “may you live in interesting times” expression portends.