Permian Gains Another Natural Gas Conduit as 1.8 Bcf/d Agua Blanca Ramps Up
WhiteWater Midstream and MPLX LP announced Wednesday the completion of a substantial natural gas pipeline expansion in the Permian Basin that delivers gas to the Waha hub in Texas for production.
The 1.8 Bcf/d Agua Blanca expansion has entered commercial service and connects nearly 20 gas processing sites in the Delaware sub-basin of the Permian, WhiteWater said. It is transporting gas to Waha from Culberson, Loving, Reeves, Pecos, Winkler and Ward counties in Texas, as well as in Eddy and Lea counties in New Mexico.
The Agua Blanca expansion includes a 42-inch diameter trunkline that provides incremental takeaway options for plants servicing Texas and New Mexico gas producers, Austin, TX-based WhiteWater said. The expansion lifts the system’s total capacity to more than 3 Bcf/d and should help alleviate in-basin takeaway constraints and reduce natural gas flaring, the company said.
Cumulative natural gas production from seven key U.S. onshore regions is set to fall by 472 MMcf/d from January to February, extending a downtrend that
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Yesterday our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), published our favorite monthly report, the Drilling Productivity Report (DPR). The latest DPR, which shows estimates for oil and gas production from the seven largest shale plays in the U.S., shows a drop in shale gas production across all plays (including the Marcellus/Utica) coming in February except for an increase in gas production in the M-U's primary competitor, the Haynesville. The M-U is forecast to drop another 118 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) in February. The Haynesville, with more active drilling rigs than the M-U region, will add 55 MMcf/d in February. EIA says shale gas production from the seven plays cumulatively will drop by 472 MMcf/d, or nearly one-half of a billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), next month. That's after losing 744 MMcf/d this month and 679 MMcf/d last month. Our Three Favorite Charts Below are the three charts the EIA doesn’t include in the offi