A few weeks ago, Reese Energy Consulting shared news on a nonbinding open season to gauge interest in the proposed 375-mile Bakken East Pipeline project—an idea coddled for 10 years—which would flow natural gas east to near Fargo, N.D. Since our post, we’ve followed the latest from the Williston Basin, where Kinder Morgan, the deeper middle Three Forks formation, and CO2 enhanced oil recovery are making lots of noise worth a listen. ...

Midstream steals the show again this week with news of a triple-whammy in the pipeline acquisitions department, and the secret negotiations playing out on a massive pipeline LNG project that’s been considered all but frozen to death. ...

Just ahead of an Arctic winter blast set to plunge most of the Lower 48 into a brutal cold that could last two weeks, the nation’s producers and midstream operators are all-hands-on-deck to ensure natural gas keeps flowing. In the final hours of 2024, preparations have already been underway to counter whatever Mother Nature dishes out in early 2025—although we can never predict her fickle tendencies....