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Westlake Chemical to Expand Ethylene Capacity at Lake Charles, LA

Westlake Chemical Corp. will invest more than $330 million to expand its ethylene capacity by about 250 million pounds annually and make other capital improvements in Lake Charles, LA, the Houston-based company said Thursday. The expansion is expected to be completed in late 2015 or early 2016. Read More

Xcel Colorado Utility Completes $110M Gas Pipeline

Driven by Colorado's Clean Air/Clean Jobs Act (see Daily GPI, April 20, 2010) prompting the closing of older coal-fired power plants, Xcel Energy Inc. said Thursday it has completed a $110 million 34-mile, 24-inch diameter natural gas pipeline to serve a still-to-be-completed gas-fired generation plant. Read More

Castleton Commodities Planning $1.2B Methanol Plant in Louisiana

Castleton Commodities International (CCI) plans to invest $1.2 billion to develop a methanol manufacturing plant on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, LA, south of New Orleans, the Stamford, CT-based commodities merchant said Friday. Read More

New Gas Processing Plant Opens in Wyoming PRB

Denver-based Meritage Midstream Service II LLC has completed and brought online its new natural gas processing plant, 50 Buttes, in Campbell County, WY. It will serve producers in the Powder River Basin (PRB). Read More

Sasol Secures Permits for Louisiana GTL Plant, Ethane Cracker

Sasol Ltd. said it plans to make a decision in the next two years on whether to construct a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant in Louisiana, after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded the South African company a wetlands permit to build the plant and an ethane cracker. Read More

LyondellBasell Picks NGL-Rich Gulf Coast for New Plant

The abundant supply of natural gas liquids (NGL) in the Gulf Coast region has prompted LyondellBasell to build a world-scale propylene oxide (PO) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) plant on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Read More

NRG CEO Still Expects OK for SoCal Gas-Fired Plant

Following the closure of a major nuclear power plant in Southern California, NRG Energy Inc. expects to obtain final state regulatory approvals for a long-standing plan to repower and redevelop part of its existing natural gas-fired Carlsbad generation plant along the Pacific Coast in San Diego County, NRG CEO David Crane said Thursday on a 2Q2014 earnings conference call. Read More

Gas Patch-Focused GTL Demonstration Planned for Houston

A trio of companies has agreed to pursue a gas-to-liquids (GTL) demonstration project in Houston with the goal of bringing the technology to the gas patch, where stranded wells could be enlisted to produce synthetic crude oil Read More

University of Delaware Cancels Plans for NatGas Power Plant

After facing strong opposition from students, faculty and nearby residents who maintained a fossil fuel plant did not coincide with the school's mission to reduce its carbon footprint, the University of Delaware has scrapped plans for a 279 MW co-generation power plant that would have burned natural gas. Read More

TVA Recommends New NatGas-Fired Plant in Memphis

In an effort to comply with agreements to reduce emissions, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has recommended shuttering its Allen Fossil Plant and the facility's three coal-fired units, replacing them with a new natural gas-fired plant on adjacent property in Memphis, TN. Read More