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Energy Transfer Equity LP took a major step in consolidating its partnership assets with a $38 billion acquisition of Williams Cos., fitting CEO Kelcy Warren’s long-standing formula for building an energy empire: Buy companies that connect the dots in the industry to leapfrog competitors.

The ROSEN Group stole the show at this month’s Rio Pipeline Conference by landing the prestigious American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Global Pipeline Award. The Trophy was personally handed over to Hermann Rosen, CEO of the ROSEN Group.

The Canadian National Energy Board (NEB) has announced that it has delayed the release of its recommendation report on Kinder Morgan Inc.’s proposed $5.4 billion, 980 km, 12 pump stations Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project by five months to acquire additional information on the project.

Trans Mountain, currently running 1150 km from Edmonton, Alberta to Burnaby, British Columbia, and transporting 300,000 barrel of oil per day, would be able to nearly triple its output to 890,000 barrels per day with the projected expansion.

Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP), which is organizing the transport of natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz II field in Azerbaijan to Europe via an 878-km gas pipeline system, is inviting companies to pre-qualify for the supply and delivery of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquistion (SCADA) system and fibre optic cable. According to the company these are the final large package contracts to be awarded for project construction as company provided items.

The scope of work is intended to cover:

Lack of progress in the Turkish Stream project has prompted the Russians as well as the Turks to explain the hold-up. Not surprisingly the respective explanations vary considerably.

For Russian Gazprom Deputy CEO Alexander Medvedev the delay is due to the "political crisis" in Turkey -- in June President Erdogan dissolved his government after the loss of parliamentary majority and there was no acting Cabinet until an interim government was created at the end of August.

Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in the United States, will extend the current binding open season to review interest in the estimated $4 billion Utica Marcellus Texas Pipeline (UMTP).

Following an expert study showing the feasibility of constructing an additional two pipelines to supply Russian natural gas to the EU market via Germany, a consortium of companies comprising PJSC Gazprom, E.ON SE, BASF SE Wintershall Holding Gmbh, the Royal Dutch Shell plc, OMV AG and Engie S.A. signed a shareholder agreement last week to implement such a project on the floor of the Baltic Sea.

Steelhead LNG, a Vancouver - based gas company, has signed a preliminary agreement with Williams for the construction of a 128 km natural gas pipeline from Sumas, Washington to the proposed Malahat LNG Project in the Saanich Inlet, British Columbia (B.C.).

Eni, the Italian oil and gas giant, has startled the petroleum industry with the announcement of a supergiant gas discovery at its Zohr prospect in Egypt's offshore economic waters. The field could potentially hold 30 trillion cubic feet of lean natural gas in place, the largest ever made in the Mediterranean Sea.

After full development, the discovery will be able to satisfy Egypt's gas demand for decades to come.

The development of a new, large $1 billion dry gas pipeline gathering system designed to process more than 2 billion cubic feet per day of gas has been announced by MarkWest Energy Partners and The Energy & Minerals Group.

The plant will be supported by a long-term, fee - based contract with Ascent Resources, an E&P company with approximately 280 000 net acres of the prolific Utica and Marcellus shale fields.

General Electric (GE) has secured a multi-million dollar contract to provide advanced turbo machinery for the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP), facilitating the transport of natural gas from Azerbaijan via Turkey to European energy markets.

The gas turbines bring high levels of operational efficiency and low emission levels. These critical systems are seen to be the "heart of the pipeline." GE reports that gas turbines will be manufactured and tested at the GE Oil and Gas for shipment to Turkey in 2017.

A new study conducted by the Fraser Institute, a non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank, has concluded that transporting oil and gas by rail is much riskier than moving it by pipeline.

Utilizing newly compiled data from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) and Transport Canada, the study, Safety in the Transportation of Oil and Gas: Pipelines or Rail?, finds that the rate of occurrences (incidents or accidents) per million barrels of oil transported is more than 4.5 times higher for rail than it is for pipelines for the period 2003-2013.