Pennsylvania Charges Energy Transfer with Environmental Crimes

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro charged Energy Transfer with several counts of environmental crimes that Shapiro says occurred during the Marine East pipeline expansion.

US Energy Secretary Granholm: Tapping SPR Possible Tool to Calm Oil Prices

U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm also did not rule out a ban on crude oil exports, which was lifted in 2015 when Obama was president. “That’s a tool that we have not used, but it is a tool as well,” Granholm said in the FT report.

US Crude Stockpiles Rise Causing Oil Prices to Ease from Multiyear Highs

“A lot of the crude build seems to have gone to increased inputs into refineries,” said Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho, following an EIA report on U.S. crude oil and gasoline inventories.

White House Moves to Restore Key Environmental Review Rules

Biden administration plans to restore provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act regulations.

New NGL Super-System Launches Serving Permian, Eagle Ford Producers

EPIC Y-Grade LP has completed its 165-mile pipeline from the EPIC Robstown, Texas, fractionation complex, to the Sweeny fractionation and storage complex, which includes Phillips 66 and Chevron Phillips Chemical, the company said on Oct. 5.

Dominion Energy Sells Questar Pipelines to Southwest Gas for $2 Billion

Activist investor Carl Icahn blasts the Questar Pipeline transaction, which follows the terminated deal with Berkshire Hathaway.

Stonepeak Boosts Gas Portfolio with $6.2 Billion Teekay LNG Acquisition

Stonepeak is offering $17 per unit to acquire all the issued and outstanding common units in Teekay LNG, one of the world’s largest independent owners and operators of LNG carriers.

Canada Invokes 1977 Pipeline Treaty with US over Line 5 Dispute

Line 5 is governed by a provisions of the agreement guaranteeing uninterrupted transit of light crude oil and NGL between the two countries, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau said in a statement.

GIP Makes Up to $245 Million Investment in Houston-based Easton Energy

Proceeds from the GIP investment will be used to fund the organic growth of Easton Energy’s asset base and other strategic growth opportunities, with a tailored delayed draw structure to support both existing and future growth projects.

Sentinel Midstream Forms JV with Exxon Mobil Serving Houston Oil Market

Sentinel Midstream established a JV with Exxon Mobil that will provide “the critical last-mile link for Permian, Gulf of Mexico and other barrels in the Houston crude oil market,” the company said.