There’s another new rail park opening in southern Bexar County – part of a railroad boom that’s chasing surging oil and gas production in the Eagle Ford Shale region. National Property Holdings LP has announced plans to build Alamo Junction Rail Park on Old Corpus Christi Road near U.S. 181 inside Loop 1604 on the [...]  More »

San Antonio-based EnCap Flatrock Midstream, a series of private equity funds, plans to invest $200 million in a Dallas-based company that will develop midstream projects in North America.  More »

E. Dendy Sloan, Colorado School of Mines professor emeritus, and his students spent years testing more than 2,000 chemicals, finally developing the first new kinetic hydrate inhibitors to prevent pipeline blockages.  More »

Enterprise Products Partners will expand its crude oil storage and distribution system in Southeast Texas over the next 18 months.  More »

Master limited partnerships have paid off for the oil and gas industry. Now, lawmakers want to expand the financing structure so renewable power projects can lure investment dollars more easily .  More »

Dilbit has now become the focus of intense debate. Environmentalists say it can corrode pipelines more quickly than conventional oil, increasing the risk of spills. The oil industry disagrees, saying dilbit is no more difficult or dangerous to transport than crude. Independent studies are rare.  More »

U.S. crude oil inventories climbed to the highest level in more than 22 years last week as production surged and refineries wrapped up annual maintenance programs, a Bloomberg survey showed.  More »

Several environmental groups in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are asking federal regulators for a moratorium on new tar sands oil pipelines until new standards are created.  More »

New natural gas pipeline construction sagged in 2012, with the nation adding its lowest total of new pipeline mileage since 1997, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.  More »

Kicking its strategy of using cheaper crude oil from U.S. shale plays into high gear, Phillips 66 has signed deals with three midstream companies to bring as much as 130,000 barrels a day of North American crude oil to its refineries.  More »

Enterprise Products Partners, a Houston-based natural gas and crude oil pipeline firm, is looking at development of a new 270-mile pipeline to deliver ethane to Gulf Coast petrochemical plants.  More »

Enbridge Inc., the largest transporter of Canadian crude to the U.S., said fourth-quarter profit declined on derivatives contracts losses and a reduction in the value of its offshore natural gas pipelines.  More »