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A new 200-mile long pipeline will carry natural gas from a shale basin in Texas to an international connection at the Mexican border, ONEOK Partners announced. The company, which has headquarters in Oklahoma, said it formed a joint venture with Mexican gas transmission company Fermaca Infrastructure to build the Roadrunner pipeline that would transport gas from the Permian shale basin in Texas to the Mexican market. « We see Roadrunner as a gateway asset that will connect Mexico’s rapidly growing ...

Militants of the Urhobo minority ethnic group blew up a natural gas pipeline in Nigeria’s Delta state in the early hours on Friday, a Nigerian official said on Saturday. « The Urhobo militants who carried out the attack have claimed responsibility, » said Isa Ado, spokesman for the Pulo Shield taskforce, made up of members of various Nigerian security forces investigating oil theft in Nigeria’s oil-producing delta region. Ado added that the militants were trying to ...

TransCanada says it won

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved revival of two shut fertiliser plants in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar at an investment of up to Rs 12,000 crore and by making use of 2,000-km proposed gas pipeline from Jagdishpur to Haldia. The urea plants at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and Barauni in Bihar will get the feedstock gas through the Rs 10,000-crore Jagdishpur-Haldia pipeline that is being targeted for completion by 2019. Besides feeding the two urea plants, the pipeline would also ...

Australia’s largest natural gas infrastructure company, APA Group, is selling US$1.4 billion of senior debt notes to help fund the purchase of a major Queensland gas pipe. Gas pipeline giant APA Group has successfully arranged a massive US$3.7 billion of long-term debt finance over the last few days with the result that it will not be drawing down at all on the more expensive bridge financing put in place to fund its US$5 billion acquisition of BG Group’s gas ...