OAK BROOK, Ill. (Oct. 23, 2014)—JBBR Pipeline LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of CenterPoint Properties, announced the start of an open season to solicit binding long-term volume commitments from customers for interstate common carrier transportation service on up to 90 percent of the capacity of a new 20-inch diameter, approximately 4-mile crude oil pipeline system.

(22 October 2014)—Shell announced a frontier exploration discovery offshore Gabon, West Africa. The well Leopard-1 encountered a substantial gas column with about 200 meters net gas pay in a pre-salt reservoir.

Leopard-1 is located about 145 kilometers off the Gabonese coast, west of Gamba. It was drilled in water 2,110 meters deep to a total vertical depth of 5,063 meters. Shell and partners are planning to undertake an appraisal program to further determine the resource volumes.