In the wake of Iran's nuclear agreement with the P5+1 (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia, plus Germany), opening the door for Iranian exports of its hydrocarbons, the moribund Iranian - Indian Gas Pipeline Project is being revived with great fanfare.
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced today that negotiations relating to the development of the Turkish Stream Pipeline Project have been suspended, particularly since "an intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation has stopped meeting."
Statoil has announced that it is selling its interest in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP) to Snam SpA for €208 million.
Up to now, TAP’s shareholding has been comprised of BP (20%), SOCAR (20%), Statoil (20%), Fluxys (19%), Enagás (16%) and Axpo (5%). Snam SpA will be assuming Statoil's 20 % share and previous role in the consortium.
In a controversial decision highlighting a major dispute between local and federal governments in Canada, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled that the National Energy Board's decision to allow the development of Kinder Morgan's 1000 km Trans Mountain Pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia takes precedence over the city of Burnaby’s enacted provisional law aimed at stopping the e
Asian conglomerate Jemena, jointly owned by State Grid Corporation of China and Singapore Power, has won a tender in Australia to build a 622 km pipeline to transport shale gas from the Northern Territories to Queensland.
TransCanada has secured a major $500 million contract to build, own and operate (BOO) the Tuxpan-Tula Pipeline in Mexico. The award complements previous TransCanada agreements to build and operate gas pipelines in Mexico.
Ruling out sabotage, the Swedish military has successfully cleared a remote operated vehicle (drone) rigged with explosives found near Line 2 of the Nord Stream Natural Gas offshore pipeline system.
President Obama announced over the weekend that the construction of the Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline was not in the national interests of the United States.
The decision culminates a seven year review process undertaken by the Department of State and throws into general doubt the export of tar sands oil to foreign markets.
Calgary-based TransCanada, in a formal letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, has requested that the Department put off its review of the Presidential Permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG, which is overseeing the development of a transnational natural gas pipeline from the Caspian Sea to Europe, has selected Salzgitter Mannesmann International GmbH to supply roughly 270 km of the onshore 48" line pipe as well as 1,559 pipe bends needed for both onshore (48") and offshore (36") use.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc said this week that it is retreating from its development of the Carmon Creek thermal oil sands project in northern Alberta and will take an expected $2 billion restructuring charge as a result.
The company cited falling oil prices and a lack of pipeline capacity in Canada as the reason for its decision.
The first joint of 970 km Ukhta-Torzhok-2 natural gas pipeline with a design capacity 45 billion cubic meters of gas per year was welded this week, a small yet critical event in the construction of the larger Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline System, of which it is part. Nord Stream 2 is currently one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects.
ILF, one of the world's leading engineering companies offering design and consulting services for the development of critical and complex infrastructure projects, has provided the design and supervision services for 1,200 km of four key high pressure natural gas pipelines operated by GAZ-SYSTEM S.A.
Penspen, a leading engineering and management services company based in London, has been awarded a contract worth $4.3 million from Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL), (A Company of Petrobangla) under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources of Bangladesh.
After a decade of protracted negotiations, Russia and Pakistan signed an Inter-Governmental Agreement yesterday on building a 1100-km natural gas pipeline from LNG terminals in southern Pakistan to growing domestic markets in the north. The construction is scheduled to be completed in late 2017.