Midstream

TransCanada Corporation will invest $500 million in the Tamazunchale – El Sauz Pipeline Extension in Mexico. TransCanada will build and operate this pipeline with a 25 years natural gas transportation service contract by the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico‘s state-owned power company. The project is designed with following key figures: 235 kilometers (146 miles) long capacity […]

By the end of March, Kinder Morgan Canada should decide the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline system. The commercial conditions of operations are now in progress enough to allow the completion of the design and planning of the entire system for an estimated cost around $3.8 billion. This expansion will increase the capacity of […]

 “Downstream” covers all the chain of transformations of the oil or gas after the transportation (Midstream). It begins with the refining and it continues with all the cracking operations of the petrochemical industry to produce all the chain of chemical products (Ethylene, Polyethylene, Propylene, Polypropylene, etc…) Comments: By comparison with the “Upstream” (Exploration & Production) […]

Definition: In the Oil & Gas and Petrochemical sector, “Midstream” refers to all the phase of transportation from the production locations to the transformation locations. Typically, by “Midstream” we should understand pipelines, vessels and all types of carriers such as trains or trucks. With the evolution of the gas to wire technology (GTW) we should […]