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Applus RTD will showcase its latest innovative technology the RTD DTI Trekscan at the 10th Pipeline Technology Conference.

Subsea 7, S.A. a subsea engineering, construction and services company serving the offshore energy industry with headquarters in London, announced the award of a $300 million contract for the Maria field development operated by Wintershall Norge AS. The field is located in the Norwegian Sea at a water depth of approximately 300 metres.

Culminating years of negotiations Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexey Miller and the CNPC Vice President Wang Dongjin signed in Moscow this week the Heads of Agreement for a 2600 km, 56 inch pipeline from Russia to China via the western route.

Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, announced last week that it had received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding the rates, terms and conditions of service for the proposed Palmetto Pipeline on May 1, 2015.

DNV GL, the international certification body which, among other things, ensures that pipelines are designed, constructed, operated and maintained in a safe, reliable and cost-effective manner, has been awarded a $4 million offshore pipelay surveillance contract by Statoil to monitor quality assurance throughout the installation campaign.

A 24 inch subterranian crude oil pipeline carrying up to 150 000 barrels per day ruptured along the southern California coast spilling an estimated 21 000 gallons (more than 500 barrels) of oil into the Pacific Ocean.

Polish PGNiG, Russian Gazprom and Polish Gas-Trading S.A., shareholders in EuRoPol GAZ s.a., which owns 684 km of the Polish section of the Yamal - Europe Transit Pipeline System, has awarded a major service and maintenance contract to Siemens Power Generation Services.

Optical fiber sensors are used around the globe to monitor the condition of difficult‐to‐access bits of infrastructure. Pipelines are certainly among them.

This past December 2014 Russia and Turkey signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to transport 63 billion cubic meters of gas per year via a Black Sea pipeline from Russia into Turkey and ending at the Turkish-Greek border. Generally such MOUs are non-binding.

The pipeline infrastructure in Canada and the United States is showing growing signs of wear and tear. In the past few months a series of leaks and explosions from Mississippi to Calgary have led to a number of deaths, damaged property and polluted the local environment.

As it continues to build up its natural gas infrastructure in the North Sea, Statoil has chosen SmartPlug® isolation technology, by T.D. Williamson (TDW), to safely isolate a 150 km wet gas pipeline from its Huldra platform to the Heimdal Gas Center.

To this end the company has elected to lay a 27 km pipeline from Valmont and tie into the existing Huldra-Heimdal pipeline.

For many years the Cassandras have been crying that North Sea / Norwegian Sea natural gas reserves are running out. While this may be so in the North Sea, increasing volumes of gas are being produced northwards in the Norwegian Sea.

With a renewed focus on its core upstream business, BP has agreed to sell its share of the Central Area Transmission System (CATS), a major piece of the North Sea gas pipeline system, to majority shareholder Antin Infrastructure Partners for £324m.

The National Energy Board (NEB), Canada's pipeline regulator, has announced the development of an online interactive Pipeline Incident Map providing Canadians with the opportunity to view all pipeline incidents occurring in the country since 2008.

Coming on the heels on the preliminary agreement between the P5+ 1 and Iran on its nuclear program, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) announced that it is ready to take in new consortium shareholders -- including Iran.

Nearly five years after the fatal explosion leveling neighborhoods in San Bruno, California caused by a natural gas pipeline rupture, Pacific Gas and Electric Corporation has been ordered by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to pay a record $1.6 billion in fines and other penalties.

Chevron has announced that it is increasing the incremental capacity of its 1505 km crude oil pipeline from Tengiz, Kazakhstan to Novorossiysk, Russia.

Mexico's state-run oil company, PEMEX, will begin the second phase of a 462 mile gas pipeline from Los Ramones, Nuevo Leon to the State of Guanajuato where a number of maquiladoras and automobile factories will use the natural gas as a clean source of power.

Williams, one of the premier natural gas companies in the United States, announced that it is seeking authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to expand the 60 percent Williams-owned Transco, the nation's largest volume and fastest growing interstate natural gas pipeline system running over 10,000 miles in length.

EVRAZ, a multinational, vertically - integrated steel making and mining company headquartered in London, has announced that it will invest $200 million in the construction of a large diameter pipe mill, enabling the production of thicker - walled pipe.

Statoil has begun laying the first segments of the Polarled 482 km gas pipeline project, which will transport gas from the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to Nyhamna in western Norway.

DNV GL, a leading provider of technical assurance and risk management services to the oil & gas industry, has approved the STATS Group's new Techno Plug and BISEP range of pipeline isolation tools.

The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) has broken ground. The placement of the first segment of the 1850 km gas pipeline planned from Shah Deniz to Europe was celebrated by the presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey in the Selim district of Kars.

Continuing its push forward, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) has issued contract notices for companies for pre-qualify for the construction of a Pipeline Receiving Terminal (PRT) and a the laying of the onshore pipeline in Italy.

ATCO Energy Solutions and ATCO Pipelines are teaming up to manage and maintain a newly implemented pipeline monitoring system covering a 900 km natural gas pipeline in British Columbia.