PetroEcuador, on Friday, Dec. 10, shut down its Shushufindi – Quito products pipeline and a 360,000 b/d Sote crude pipeline to avert any possible damage that the advancing river erosion can cause.
The suspension of the major pipeline's operations came just a few days after a foreigner-owned 450,000 b/d OCP crude pipeline shutdown.
Each month, the "Ask the Experts" section focuses on a new topic of particular relevance to the pipeline industry.
We would like to invite you to send in your questions which will afterwards be answered publicly by selected experts from the respective field.
Jim Teague, Co Chief Executive Officer of Enterprise Products Partners, said during the World Petroleum Congress held last week in Houston, Texas that his company could repurpose some of its vast U.S. network of energy pipelines for carbon capture and sequestration projects.
Svyaztransneft’s Oka Region branch commissioned Tekstilshchiki-Security Station, an upgraded fiber-optic communication line (FOCL) in Moscow city and the Moscow region to boost operations, the company announced in a press release published on December 3, 2021.
A Saudi investor group led by a financial giant, BlackRock Real Assets and Hassana Investment Co., will take the largest minority stake of 49% in the recently formed Aramco Gas Pipelines Co. under a 20-year lease deal.
Q1) Do you think satellite-based monitoring of 3rd party impacts will replace traditional monitoring methods such as helicopter-based monitoring?
Chinese biggest hydrogen producer, Sinopec, started building one of the world's largest solar-to-hydrogen projects on Dec. 1, 2021. The 'world's largest' renewable solar-to-hydrogen plan, estimated to cost a whopping $470 million, will link 300 MW of PV to 20000-tonne capacity electrolysers in Xinjian by 2023.
North America’s giant companies Palantir and Kinder Morgan have signed an agreement to strengthen pipeline operations in the region for many years.
RWE, a multinational energy company based in Essen, Germany and Novatek, the second largest natural gas producer based in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region in West Siberia, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding envisaging the supply of (still to be produced) low-carbon ammonia and hydrogen.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline restarted "safely" on Sunday 5, 2021, according to the company's officials, after a three-week precautionary shutdown. But the B.C government maintained the fuel-rationing order for the province's southwestern areas.
Snam on December 1 finalized a deal to acquire a 25% stake in the PTT Energy-owned East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG), a press release published on the company's website revealed.
East Mediterranean Gas Company is the owner of the Arish-Ashkelon gas pipeline, which is part of the "Peace Gas Pipeline" for consideration of approximately $50 million.
Summit Carbon Solutions plans to build a 2,000-mile pipeline running through five Midwest states, including Minnesota. The prospected conduit will become the world's largest carbon dioxide pipeline, transporting the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming and climate change from dozens of biofuel plants to North Dakota for permanent underground storage.
Iran has signed a tripartite gas supply swap deal with its neighboring states Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, to facilitate gas flow between the two countries. The agreement is expected to be operational at the beginning of winter, according to the Iranian oil minister, Javad Owji.
Italy's giant pipeline Snam (SRG.MI) agreed to buy a significant state in a giant pipeline transmitting natural gas from Algeria to Italy, in early preparation for possible hydrogen imports from Africa to Europe, Reuters reported on November 27.
Libya's oil production is expected to drop as some of the oil fields at Waha go offline due to pipeline maintenance, undisclosed sources privy to the matter told spglobal.com on Thursday, November 25.
Behind the scenes Germany is patiently working with the United States to implement a deal allowing for the ultimate transportation of natural gas from Russia to Germany via the Nord Stream 2 subsea pipeline.
Calgary-based Pipeline giant TC Energy seeks to recoup the cost incurred by the now-canceled Keystone XL pipeline project.
The Canadian company had already launched an official request for arbitration in pursuit of "economic damage" compensation following President Joe Biden's decision to cancel the major pipeline project.
A polish gas transmission operator GAZ-SYSTEM SA awarded Corinth Pipeworks a contract to supply enough steel pipes for the Gustorzyn - Wronow gas pipeline. The project will involve 80 kilometers of coated steel pipelines.
Uganda anticipates a new law governing the construction and operation of a 1,445-km crude export pipeline running from Lake Albert development, paving the way for the first oil ever from the project by 2025.
An independent assurance and risk management provider, DNV, acquired one of the leading industrial cyber security specialists, Applied Risk, to help defend critical energy infrastructure and other sectors from the ever-increasing cyber threats.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) team of experts recovered 22 important archeological objects from approximately 800 meters below sea level.
The extraordinary artifacts were recovered in the Otranto canal of the Adriatic Sea, close to the pipeline’s offshore route, on November 17, 2021, as reported in an article published on the TAP website.
The NO DIG Berlin will be held March 8-9, 2022, at the ESTREL Congress Center, Berlin within the Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc).
The international summit was originally part of the BERLIN WASSER INTERNATIONAL (BWI) which no longer exists.
Russia’s Transneft pipeline, a monopolistic energy supply company, reported on Thuesday (Nov. 18) that repair work on a section of the Druzhba oil pipeline was completed, and oil pumping was set to resume in the evening of the same day as reported by the RIA news agency.
On Monday, November 15, the value for space on the Colonial pipeline’s major line increased by 4 cents per gallon, the highest price ever recorded in the past two years, according to the S&P Global Platts data.
Schneider Electric, a leading digital energy transformation, management, and automation company, and Prisma Photonics, a next-generation fiber-sensing smart infrastructure provider, on Tuesday (Nov.16) agreed to partner in helping gas and oil pipeline owners and operators boost the efficiency and integrity of their pipeline infrastructure.
