BLM memo streamlining oil, gas leasing 'likely to increase production'
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management moved quickly to streamline the process for oil and gas drillers to buy federal leases onshore, a move that could increase Western oil and gas production but that environmental groups said they will fight.
Proposed BC oil sands rule targets Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain project
The government of British Columbia, which has been vocal in its opposition to Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.'s C$7.4 billion Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, launched another attack on the project with a proposed law that would cap the amount of oil sands bitumen transported in the province.
Study: Canadian producers disadvantaged by government policy, lack of pipelines
The combination of limited pipeline access and high government-related costs put oil producers in Alberta, Canada's biggest petroleum-producing province, at a significant disadvantage to their U.S. counterparts, a study by the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute found.
Shell Midstream unit seeks Pa. water permits to build pipeline to ethane cracker
A Shell Midstream Partners LP subsidiary requested construction permits in three counties in Pennsylvania for its planned Falcon ethane pipeline system, which would carry supplies from facilities in Ohio and Pennsylvania to the partnership's proposed large-scale ethane cracker.
Mich. governor rejects temporary shutdown of Enbridge oil pipe in Great Lakes
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder dismissed a call to temporarily shut down the underwater segment of Enbridge Inc.'s Line 5 oil pipeline, The Associated Press reported Jan. 29.
