Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE:EPD) and Questar announced plans to develop the White River Hub, a new pipeline hub which will connect EPD’s natural gas facilities located near Meeker, CO with 6 other interstate pipelines (including Questar pipeline). Slated for completion in the Fall of 2008, the system will allow shippers increased access to [...]

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Benchmarks have always been an important part of investing. In general, most investors compare the performance of their stock portfolio against the S&P 500 (an index comprised of some of the largest US corporations). However, until recently a universal index for benchmarking Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) was hard to come by. After [...]

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Teppco Partners recently purchased an underground Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage cavern in Middleton, Ohio, helping raise the midstream company’s capacity for storage by over 300,00 barrels. The purchase is in line with the MLP’s expansion into the midstream LPG space, and has helped boost delivery capability of the Greensburg / Eagle pipeline segment [...]

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Bear Stearns is now offering Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs) that are tied to the Alerian MLP Select Index. Per Alerian, the notes are the first of their kind, and allow investors to diversify risk across energy MLPs while owning only one security. ETN holders are entitled to the equivalent cash distributions (paid monthly) [...]

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