Projects

Argentina has secured a loan worth $840 million from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) to fund the construction of the "President Néstor Kirchner" gas pipeline.

Energy giant EWE, based in Oldenburg, Germany, is planning a 70-km underground gas pipeline from the LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven to the gas storage facility in Nüttermoor und Jemgun in northwest Lower Saxony.

In a major development likely sounding the death knell for the erstwhile pride of the extensive Russian pipeline network, Reuters has reported that Gazprom is set to seal up the damaged Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipelines to Europe as there are no plans to repair them.

The diplomatic fallout between Algeria and Morocco has bolstered energy collaborations between Rabat and Madrid following the shutdown of Algeria's largest gas pipeline with Spain, the Maghreb-Europe pipeline, in November of last year.

Open Grid Europe (OGE), GRTgaz Deutschland and Solar Turbines have partnered to successfully test fuel gas containing up to 25 percent hydrogen on a low emissions Titan 130 SoLoNox gas turbine driving a gas compressor. These gas turbines are usually powered by natural gas taken from the pipeline system.

3000 pipes, originally intended to be used to transport Russian gas as part of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline system, have been lying in limbo for over a year in the German port of Mukran in Ruegen on the Baltic Sea.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has expressed willingness to finance a prospective hydrogen pipeline connecting Portugal to Spain and France if the project meets the eligibility criteria, EIB Vice-President Ricardo Mourinho Félix said during an interview with Lusa, adding that the bank

Iran is looking to build a massive water pipeline project to help boost water supplies to the country’s tourist region of Isfahan. According to Isfahan’s governor general, the 920-kilometer pipeline set to transport water from the Sea of Oman is already at its preliminary stages, the Financial Tribune news agency reported last Tuesday.

Zambian president and his Tanzanian counterpart have agreed to fast-track the upgrade of the TAZAMA pipeline, which has served the two countries for more than five decades.

Faulty welding and bending stress fatigue on TC Energy's Keystone pipeline caused the largest oil spill in nearly a decade, the pipeline operator announced Thursday last week.

South Korea's state-owned gas importer and transporter, Korea Gas Corporation (Kogas), has selected Norway's DNV to evaluate the possibility of blending hydrogen into the country's gas transmission network, the company shared the news on its website last week.

In wake of the port of Ceyhan sustaining earthquake damage last week, Kazakhstan's state energy company Kazmunaigaz has postponed the start of oil exports from the giant Tengiz oilfield via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline after BP Azerbaijan declared force majeure on loadings from Ceyhan.

Pakistan has shown a willingness to go on with the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project even without India as Afghanistan is willing to offer more support, the Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Musadik Malik, said during his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, Business Recorder reported earlier this week.

The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) said early this week that the Deka Pipeline upgrading project in Matabeleland North is now 85 percent complete, the Chronicle reported on Monday.

Islamabad plans to shift the "starting point" of the long-delayed 'Pakistan Gas Stream Project' pipeline from Karachi to Gwadar, a decision that would help embark on the abandoned Gwadar Pipeline Project, connecting to Iran, the Tribune reported last week.