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Given what several NATO country-members see as a growing threat to critical maritime infrastructure, Germany and Norway will formally ask NATO to coordinate efforts to protect undersea pipelines and other such infrastructure, some two months after explosions ripped holes in the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines, disabling them.

Harbour Energy's Viking CCS plan reaches the statutory consultation stage.

If all goes to plan, the enormous carbon capture pipeline project designed to Decarbonise the South Humber Bank industry could be tabled before the planning inspectorate by 2023.

Australian gas operator, Santos, was, on November 29, 2022, forced to shut down a gas field offshore Western Australia after the company detected a gas leak on the subsea gas export pipeline. Santos reported on Tuesday that the leak was discovered during routine activities on John Brookes’s offshore gas platform, which is usually unmanned.

German pipeline operator, Gascade, has completed the country's first liquefied natural gas pipeline project to help inject gas into the existing gas network.

In a statement that raised eyebrows among European pipeliners, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said last Thursday that it had prevented Ukrainian special services from carrying out what it said was sabotage on the 'South Stream' gas pipeline.

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The Staff of the Office of Enforcement ("OE") of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") on November 17, 2022, released its sixteenth  Annual Report on Enforcement. The report highlights the activities carried out by OE's Division of Audits and Accounting ("DAA"), Division of Investigations ("DOI"), as well as the Division of Analytics ("DAS").

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Druzhba oil pipeline operations in Ukraine, partially suspended last week without explanation, have resumed at the scheduled volume, Russia's state-owned oil pipeline operator Transneft reported today.

Nigeria-based Tantita security services limited operatives face death threats after uncovering illegal pipelines used in crude oil theft in various parts of the Niger Delta.

Operatives of the company owned by Ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Oweizide Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, have been going across the region and recording the achievements in their work.

2022 is a special year for DENSO Group Germany: The company is celebrating its 100-year anniversary.

As the energy crisis in Europe continues to hit the European Union member states hard, the oil and gas industry in Saudi Arabia is very promising. According to Engineer Abdullah S. Al-Zahrani, an expert consultant in the oil and gas industry specializing in drilling and exploration, the Master Gas System expansion phase III project would be a significant boost to the Saudi oil and gas markets.

An explosion on a main gas pipeline northeast of St. Petersburg, which further connects to Nord Stream 1, occurred over the weekend.  Natural gas in Nord Stream 1 continued to flow.

Tougher times for Europe following a temporary suspension of oil supply through the Druzhba pipeline to parts of Eastern and Central Europe announced by oil pipeline operators in Slovakia and hungury, Reuters reported on November 15, 2022.

The prevailing energy crisis in Europe has exposed the EU's underlying problems that were overlooked for many years.

Kazakhstan president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has called for the establishment of alternative routes for the country’s oil exports to reduce its dependence on Russia.

Kuwait, one of the member states of OPEC producers, has awarded a local company a multimillion project contract for the construction of pipelines worth 42.5 million Kuwaiti dinars ($140 million) to link up the country's oilfields in the South and East, a local newspaper reported on Monday, November 7, 2022.

Enbridge, the international pipeline company based in Calgary, Alberta Canada, has approved the expansion of the southern segment of its British Columbia pipeline system, a project that would cost up to $2.65 billion after strong demand from crude oil producers.

China's total gas demand is likely to plunge for the first time in two decades amid the dwindling economy as the country moves closer to winter, which will see energy demand rise modestly than it has been in previous years.

Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) is studying potential gas pipeline Ideas connecting to Greece and Damietta in Egypt in addition to the current pipeline between Libya and Italy, NOC chairman, Farhat Bengdara, said on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

Turkey’s state-owned energy company, BOTAS Petroleum Pipeline Corporation, has signed a new deal with the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) to export more natural gas to Turkey, a senior NIGC official privy to the deal announced last week.

Norway took immediate action after the 26 September discovery of the severely damaged Nord Stream 1 & 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea of the Danish and Swedish coasts to increase pipeline inspections on its 8,800-km pipeline network connecting Norway with continental Europe and Britain.

The prevailing natural gas crisis in Europe has presented a new urgency to the Nigerian government's prospects to ramp up gas production through big-ticket projects such as the AKK and the Trans-Saharan Pipeline already under consideration.

The Power of Siberia project is a unified gas transmission system (GTS) involving the development of a 4,000km-long gas pipeline to transfer natural gas from the Irkutsk gas production centers in the prolific Eastern Russia to the Far East and China. This week Gazprom announced that the Kovykta gas field, the largest in the region, is expected to come onstream in December.

The natural gas spot price in west Texas fell below zero, forcing the producers to foot up the unloading fee, World News Era reported on October 26, 2022. The events came at a time when Europe is grappling with record-high energy prices following a supply decline by the Russian state-owned supplier, Gazprom.